Why am I not able to start my standalone application from Windows Explorer on my 64-bit machine?

I have a developed a standalone application with 64-bit MATLAB Compiler. When I try to start the standalone application from Windows Explorer it will not start and I receive error dialogs containing the following information:

MyGUI.exe has stopped working.

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I have compiled the same application with 32-bit MATLAB Compiler, on the same machine, and then there is no problem to start the standalone application from Windows Explorer.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

If both 32-bit and 64-bit MATLAB/MATLAB Compiler is installed on the machine this issue can occur when a 64-bit standalone application attempts to run against 32-bit MATLAB (or MCR).

You should look at the system path environment variable and verify that 64-bit MATLAB proceeds 32-bit MATLAB on the path when you want to run your 64-bit standalone application.

Use the following Windows command prompt command to display the system path environment variable:

echo %PATH%