Approaches for Building Code Generated from MATLAB Code

You can use a CMake or toolchain approach for building (compiling and linking) code that you generate from MATLAB^® code:

• CMake—A third-party, open-source tool for build process management, which uses configuration (CMakeLists.txt) files to generate standard build files for native build environments, for example, makefiles, Ninja files, or Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® projects. MATLAB ships the CMake executable file. MATLAB Coder™ supports CMake versions from 3.12.0 onwards.

  CMake and the associated CMakeLists.txt file are widely used for building C++ code and can be directly leveraged by command-line tools and IDEs like Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Xcode, and CLion.

• Toolchain—The build process generates makefiles and supports custom toolchains. You can control the build process with toolchain information objects that you define by using MATLAB scripts.

Each build process supports:

• Code generation configuration parameters

• The codebuild (Embedded Coder) function

• SIL or PIL execution with Embedded Coder^®