MATLAB Compiler

Deploying the Application

You can distribute a MATLAB Compiler-generated stand-alone to any target machine that has the same operating system as the machine on which the application was compiled. For example, if you want to deploy an application to a Windows machine, you must use the MATLAB Compiler to build the application on a Windows machine. If you want to deploy the same application to a UNIX machine, you must use the MATLAB Compiler on the same UNIX platform and completely rebuild the application. To deploy an application to multiple platforms requires MATLAB and MATLAB Compiler licenses on all the desired platforms.

Windows

Gather and package the following files and distribute them to the deployment machine.

Component	Description
MCRInstaller.exe	Self-extracting MATLAB Component Runtime library utility; Platform-dependent file that must correspond to the end-user's platform; This file is located in the <matlabroot>\toolbox\compiler\deploy\win32 directory.
magicsquare.ctf	Component Technology File archive; Platform-dependent file that must correspond to the end-user's platform
magicsquare	Application; magicsquare.exe for Windows

UNIX

These steps describe how to distribute a stand-alone application.

1. Generate the MATLAB Component Runtime (MCR) library archive on the development machine. You only need to do this step once per platform. To generate the MCR library archive, run

• buildmcr;
  

1. This places the MCRInstaller archive MCRInstaller.zip in the <matlabroot>/toolbox/compiler/deploy/<arch> directory.

   Alternatively, to build the MCRInstaller archive as filename in the path directory, you can use

   • buildmcr(path, filename);
     

   To return the full path to the file zipfile, use

   • zipfile = buildmcr(path, filename);
     

   To build the MCRInstaller archive in the current directory, use

   • zipfile = buildmcr('.');
     

2. Gather and package the following files and distribute them to the deployment machine.

   Component	Description
   MCRInstaller.zip	MATLAB Component Runtime library archive; Platform-dependent file that must correspond to the end-user's platform
   unzip	Utility to unzip MCRInstaller.zip (optional). The target machine must have an unzip utility installed.
   magicsquare.ctf	Component Technology File archive; Platform-dependent file that must correspond to the end-user's platform
   magicsquare	Application

Testing the Application

Running the Application

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