Is there any plan to shrink the too large mcr?

There is no doubt that matlab is a great technological computing tool. I can do some calculations with a high efficiency. But when I want to publish the programs to others, things become difficult: it is necessary to install MCR on another computer, and the MCR is too large! It is not convenient to publish exe to other people. What I want to know is whether Mathworks have any plan to reduce the volume of the MCR, or allow users install part of it? Because users do not need all features of MCR in most situation, possibly I can package a part of MCR in my software?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You can't have it install just the functions you need, unfortunately.

Most users now are used to downloading new software from the web rather than using DVDs or CDs, so an installer of this size should not be surprising. MATLAB itself is larger, as are most other commercial software packages.

MATLAB is, in general, very tight lipped about what their future plans are (as are most companies except Microsoft), so we don't know if they are working on reducing the size of MCRInstaller.exe. I would not plan on it, so you'd better find a suitable way to distribute large files to your end users.

[Gary Liu]

Starting from R2016a release, it's possible to distribute your application/Compiler SDK library with a subset of MATLAB Runtime that is needed for the application/library to run.

Please refer to https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/101332-why-is-matlab-runtime-so-large for more details

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

If this is a matter of interest to you, you should talk to your sales person. Mathworks only talks about future plans under Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), so you can be sure that if anyone gave you an answer either way, it would be someone who did not actually know what the answer was.