Determining the install location of a compiled program.

I'm trying to determine where files are installed for a compiled application, but all the usual ways are pointing to the temporary directory that the program is extracted to before running.

Answer 1

[OCDER]

This was answered here:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/92949-how-can-i-find-the-directory-containing-my-compiled-application

Answer 2

[William Thielicke]

@OCDER: This is the location where the exe file (which seems to act as some sort of shortcut) is located. The actual files of the standalone are installed here on my win11 system:

C:\Users\thiel\AppData\Local\MathWorks\MatlabRuntimeCache\R2025a\Compiled_program_name