Can the functions in the Optimization Toolbox be compiled?

I would like to create a stand-alone executable using the functions in the Optimization Toolbox.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

Yes, you can compile and create a stand-alone executable using the functions in the Optimization Toolbox. To do so, you will need to use function handles to the objective function you created and any nonlinear constraint functions you use in your call to the Optimization Toolbox function, and will need to provide function handles for the HessMult and JacobMult parameters in the options structure if you use these parameters.

For more information on issues which may occur when you try to compile Optimization Toolbox functions, please see the solution attached at the bottom of this page.

[Walter Roberson]

What difficulty do you observe?

[Walter Roberson]

I would experiment with adding a try/catch around the call to lsqcurvefit to see if the problem is one that can be caught.

[Walter Roberson]

Is a traceback produced?

Are any iterations displayed (I notice you set display to iter) or is it crashing before it gets any done?

[Walter Roberson]

Have you tried compiling as a console application? There might possibly be error messages output to the console.

[Walter Roberson]

Ah, I would have expected that to have been mentioned at the time of compilation, in the error logs. heaviside is part of the Symbolic Toolbox and the log file should have complained about not being able to compile the Symbolic Toolbox.