Should I use MATLAB Compiler SDK, or MATLAB Coder to integrate my MATLAB applications with C/C++?

Should I use MATLAB Compiler SDK, or MATLAB Coder to integrate my MATLAB applications with C/C++?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

MATLAB Compiler SDK provides shared libraries that run against a MATLAB Runtime. It supports most of the features in MATLAB, including graphics, and protects your intellectual property by encrypting your MATLAB code.

 

MATLAB Coder on the other hand provides readable and portable source code. It supports a subset of the MATLAB Language  focused on algorithms performing numerical computations. High-level differences between the two approaches are summarized below. Details are provided further down in a list of frequently asked questions.

Frequently asked questions:

Useful links:

• Techniques for accelerating MATLAB algorithms and applications
• Supported functions for MATLAB Coder
• MATLAB Compiler support for MATLAB and toolboxes
• Code generation using shared libraries

[Nestor Flores]

Not sure if understood. Can I make an exe file that can plot (2D & 3D) with Compiler SDK? An exe file that can run in a computer without MATLAB.

[Walter Roberson]

Nestor Flores:

You would use MATLAB Compiler to produce executables that can plot, and that can run on computers without MATLAB. The executable would, though, need to be run on the same class of operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux) as MATLAB Compiler was run on.

MATLAB Compiler SDK does not produce executables itself: it produces DLLs that you can call from other languages. What is produced can plot. The DLL would, though, need to be used with the same class of operating system as MATLAB Compiler SDK was run on.

[Nestor Flores]

Thank you

[Mustafa DEMIRCIOGLU]

Thanks for your very clear explanation.

[Saad kelam]

Error using mex

No supported compiler or SDK was found. For options, visit

http://www.mathworks.com/support/compilers/R2014a/win64.

[Walter Roberson]

What output do you get when you use

mex -v -setup C