How do I get MCR v7.3?

Hi,

in my company we have two parts in our product that use MATLAB COMPILER and therefore need MCR to be installed.

Part a is from 2005 and we are just in process to make it new. The old part used MCR v7.1.

Part b is somewhat later and uses still MCR v7.3.

As we are reworking part a we just thought about using MCR v7.3 to avoid to have two MCRs installed at customer sites. Which versions of what (Matlab, Signal Processing toolbox and Matlab Compiler) do we need to install for this purpose?

Does this make sense or is it not a good idea, because maybe to much bugfixes have been added in meantime?

CIAO Peter

Answer 1

[Daniel Shub]

TMW provides a MCR-MATLAB Version list. MCR v7.1 corresponds to R14 SP1 and v7.3 is R14 SP3.

If I recall correctly there were a lot of bug fixes in those service packs. Then again you are talking about 7 years ago and I might be confusing it with the MATLAB 6.5 service packs.

I am not sure if you can even run the 7.1 and 7.3 MCR and R14 on modern 64 bit OS's, so that might influence your decision.

Depending on your application recent versions of MATLAB are much more efficient.

[Walter Roberson]

There is also a cross-correlated list of versions at

http://matlabwiki.mathworks.com/MATLAB_FAQ

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

The version of MCR used must exactly match the version compiled against. They are not backwards compatible. If your customer will be needing to execute some programs compiled with MCR 7.1 and some compiled with MCR 7.3, then both MCR would need to be installed.