What issues should I be aware of when working with MATLAB/Simulink on multiple operating systems?

Although I am working on windows machine, I might need to share some code or work myself on a Linux machine in future.

Are MATLAB and Simulink completely compatible on these operating systems? If not, what are some of the issues we should be aware of?

Answer 1

[Siddharth]

In general, you can assume that our products are fully compatible amongst all different platforms. There are some things to keep in mind:

1. MEX-files are platform dependent and therefore need to be regenerated for each platform you want to use.
2. Not all toolboxes and blocksets are available for each platform. For availability and system requirements consult the system requirements page: http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/current_release/
3. In order to handle potentially different character encodings between different machines you can use the slCharacterEncoding function.
4. Component Object Model (COM) programming is available only on Windows platforms.

Answer 2

[Andreas Goser]

Two additional aspects:

Sid's point #1 and #2 are also true with 32 bit vs. 64 bit operating systems - not everybody considers such situations as "different OS".

Some users work extensively with ! - DOS - UNIX commands. Here it is of course important to use them wisely.