Can Simulink Model be deployed on Production Server and/or Web App Server?

There is a list of functions not supported for compilation by MATLAB compiler and MATLAB Compiler SDK. In that list, Simulink Functions in general are there according to this:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/compiler_sdk/ml_code/unsupported-functions.html

With this limitation, simulink model might not be able to be compiled to a regular CTF file, which is the depolyable archive used in both Production Server and Web App Server.

Does this mean:

1) Simulink model cannot be deployed on Production Server or Web App Server?

2)If this cannot be done directly, is there any work around way to deploy the simulink model on production server or web app server?

Answer 1

[Govind KM]

Hi @Biyan Li,

While MATLAB Compiler does not support Simulink, Simulink simulations can be deployed on both MATLAB Web App Server and MATLAB Production Server using the Simulink Compiler.

• An example workflow for creating a web app containing a Simulink simulation and hosting it on the MATLAB Web App Server is documented here: https://www.mathworks.com/help/webappserver/ug/simulink-simulation-web-app.html
• To deploy a Simulink simulation on the MATLAB Production Server, the workflow is to use Simulink Compiler and MATLAB Compiler SDK to package the Simulink simulation, then use MATLAB Production Server to host the simulation from the enterprise application. The following MATLAB Answers post can be referred to for an example of such workflow: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/802381-simulink-compiler-with-matlab-compiler-sdk-to-get-net-dll
• For more information about creating and deploying a script with Simulink Compiler, please refer to the following documentation: https://www.mathworks.com/help/slcompiler/gs/create-and-deploy-a-simple-script-with-simulink-compiler.html
• An updated list of functionalities supported by MATLAB Compiler and Simulink Compiler can be found here: https://www.mathworks.com/products/compiler/compiler_support.html

Hope this clarifies the issue!

[Biyan]

Great information. Thanks!