Is there any way to determine if an app is being ran as a compiled executable via MATLAB Runtime or as a mlapp file via MATLAB?

I have an app that unfortunately requires some functionality to be reduced when running as a compiled executable due to MATLAB Compiler not liking str2sym. I would like to know prior to that portion of the code running whether the user is running it from the compiled version or as a .mlapp file so that I can get ahead of the errors it would cause. Is there any way to determine what form the program is in when ran? Thanks!

Answer 1

[Githin George]

Hi Austin,

You can try using the "isDeployed" function in MATLAB to determine whether the MATLAB code is running from a compiled executable or from a MATLAB session.

Please refer to the documentation for more information:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/compiler/isdeployed.html

[Steven Lord]

Technical correction: there is no isDeployed function in MATLAB or any MathWorks products as far as I'm aware. The function has two lower-case d's: isdeployed.

which -all isDeployed

'isDeployed' not found.

which -all isdeployed

built-in (/MATLAB/toolbox/matlab/general/isdeployed)

[Austin B]

Thanks to you both! This solution worked perfectly.