MCC in Matlab 2014b on Windows 10

This is a slightly esoteric question, but for some technical reasons I'm looking to use the Matlab runtime library compiler (mcc under Linux) but specifically with an older version (2014b). However, the PC I have available to me is a Window 10 64 bit system.

Does anyone know if this distribution will work and compile on this system? I'm unable to test it to be sure myself, but I would like to know ahead of time if this is possible.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

What you propose is difficult to achieve. The only person I have seen indicate success for this was a situation where they had R2014b on a Windows 7 (or perhaps Windows 8) machine and did an Upgrade to Windows 10; apparently in that situation Windows was able to get the libraries right.

I did, though, see hints that perhaps a key bug on Microsoft's side has been repaired, so these days it might be practical. I have not seen anyone post about that.

So these days it is a "Well, maybe", whereas before it was a "No deal".

[jgg]

Thanks Walter (and I guess no thanks to Microsoft!). I guess I will have to just give this a shot when I have access, then update this question accordingly.

[jgg]

It actually turns out that the Matlab compiler does not support cross-compiling at all, so this is not feasible in any case.

[Walter Roberson]

Yes, I missed the bit about it being cross-compiling. To use something compiled with MATLAB Compiler on Windows, on a Linux target, you need to use a Windows emulator such as Wine on the Linux system.