Is it possible to create an EXE file that can be run without MCR installed?

The MCR must be installed on the target end user PC before running a MATLAB Compiled EXE, so the EXE and MCR must be packaged together.

The question: Is there any Matlab tool or method that could create an EXE application that can be run on the target PC without MCR installed and without additional files and to be independent Even if the EXE file becomes mush more bigger? If NOT what are the reasons.

Answer 1

[Jason Ross]

Have you looked at MATLAB Coder?

http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-coder/index.html

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Are you aware that you can include MCR in the bundle, so you only need to ship a single .exe ?

[Digitalsd]

I know that, but since the MCR has all of MATLAB's functionality, it will be very large. I think MCR includes all run-time libraries even those I do not need in my application. Some times for some applications we might need a really independent EXE file.

[Walter Roberson]

You said, "even if the executable becomes much more bigger", so size does not seem to be the issue ?

It is fairly likely that any executable you build will depend upon run-time environments, such as a compiler run-time, and thus would probably fail the "without other files" requirement.

[Digitalsd]

The EXE would be bigger but not as mush as the size of MCRInstaller. For example I have made an application using MATLAB compiler, the EXE it self was 324 KB and the MCRInstaller version 7.17 was 333 MB. BUT In the case of a standalone independent EXE the size will increase including really needed libraries but it will stay mush smaller compared to MCRInstaller size Even if there are additional files like .dll files. May be the MATLAB coder in first answer would create such EXE.

[Walter Roberson]

MATLAB Coder converts to C or C++, that you would then compile.

There are many restrictions as to what can be done with MATLAB Coder; read the product literature and documentation to see whether it would be useful for your program.

[Image Analyst]

In the days of terabyte hard drives, who cares about a few hundred megabytes?

[Digitalsd]

I will,Best Regards

[Image Analyst]

Why? Could you tell us?

[Walter Roberson]

(I suspect the "I will" refers to reading the documentation)

[Digitalsd]

Of course it is about reading,to see whether being useful or not. About the comment of Image Analyst: It is not only a size issue,I think in the case of using the EXE created by MATLAB Compiler, the starting time when executing EXE will be equal to the time when executing the full MATALAB enviroment,it takes time. Any way it is not bad to have several ways to create an EXE file. Regards

[Image Analyst]

It seems like only the first time it's run does it take a really long time because it has to unpack all kinds of stuff from the archive. After that, subsequent runs launch faster. But I know of know way around this unless you want to run it directly from the MATLAB development invironment.