A question about the Matlab Compiler Runtime

If I want to deploy a Matlab code to a PC which does not have Matlab installed, I will need to install MCR to run the compiled version. My question is whether a license is required for a copy of MCR installed?

Can I download MCR of a specific version somewhere? Or I have to generate the installation package when compiling the Matlab code?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

No, no license will be required for the copy of MCR that is installed.

There are no methods provided to download MCR: the person licensed for the Compiler Toolbox is responsible for distributing the appropriate MCR to the recipients of the compiled applications, and is responsible for ensuring that only those recipients get access to MCR. It is, for example, not permitted to make an installable application including MCR publicly available on a web site: access controls must be used.

Yes, you must generate the installation package when compiling the MATLAB code.

[Xiaolei Hu]

Come on, Matlab, why it makes the distribution so hard? Matlab itself costs 2K, but the compiler is 5K. This is ridiculous. It basically tells me that Matlab is not an option when you have so many other ones. Matlab is ONLY a programming tool; LabVIEW does it so much better.

[Craig]

I agree that this is inconvenient and quite shocking. Its <200mB so providing different versions as a download would be of little burden to Mathworks. National Instruments (makers of LabVIEW) provides all of its installers online; granted they're many are multiple GB, but still available.

[Walter Roberson]

I understand that the installers are more than 750 MB now.

I have no information on the purpose of the policy.

[Image Analyst]

The 64 bit R2011b MCRINstaller.exe is 423 MB. For the 32 bit version it's 406 MB. I have not downloaded the R2012a beta yet.