QtMatlabLibLoaderExample

A solution to run MATLAB with a C++ project. This project provides a solution to run MATLAB computational engine with a C++ project. As it also

• automatically locates current active MATLAB directory
• dynamically loads MATLAB library
• provides a means to create MAT file from a C++ project (No MATLAB license or activation require)
• manages multiple process or multiple thread for MATLAB computation
• uses Qt for cross-platform solution

Getting Started

This is not an standalone application but an example demonstrate how to make MATLAB work with a C++ project In this project, we use the MATLAB engine to generate a random strong password and store the output to a MAT file. It's particular useful for a C++ research project that requires MATLAB computational power. The capability of writing output to a MAT file is helpful for analysing data in MATLAB afterwards. An interesting use of writing a MATLAB is that we can create a application to save output data to a MAT file without activating MATLAB at all, as long as you have a MATLAB bin library existing in the according location (such as \Program Files\MATLAB\R2019a\bin\win64).

Prerequisites

You will need either MinGw or MSVC compilier The choice of environments can be either Qt5 or Visual Studio 2015+ Qt5 - Qt MATLAB - MATLAB

Installing

This is not an standalone application but an example demonstrate how to make MATLAB work with a C++ project You may open the project file "QtMatlabLibLoader.pro" with the Qt IDE and set up the project. The following steps will get you compile this sample project.

• Pull the repository to a local directory.
• Change directory to the root of local repository.
• Compile with the following command under QT's command prompt window (MinGw)

qmake QtMatlabLibLoader.pro "CONFIG+=release"
mingw32-make.exe -j4

• Go to "release" subfolder and run the "QtMatlabLibLoader.exe"

Deployment

This is not an standalone application but an example demonstrate how to make MATLAB work with a C++ project You are free to distribute the souce as long you fulfill the open source distribution requirements.

Authors

• Yung-Yeh Chang - Initial work - DynamicLinkLib_Qt

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License