MATLAB Compiler

Building COM Objects

Note    To create COM components from the MATLAB Compiler, you must have the MATLAB COM Builder installed on your system.

You can use mbuild to create Component Object Model (COM) objects from MATLAB M-files. The collection of M-files is translated into a single COM class. MATLAB COM Builder supports multiple classes per component.

The interface to the COM class is the same set of functions that are exported from a C shared library, but the Compiler supports both C and C++ code generation in producing COM objects.

mbuild automatically:

• Invokes the Microsoft Interface Definition Language (MIDL) compiler
• Invokes the resource compiler
• Specifies the .DEF files

Using mbuild options you can enable auto registration of the COM-compatible DLL.

Note    Creating COM objects from MATLAB M-files is available on Windows only. The only compilers that support the building of COM objects with the MATLAB Compiler are Borland C++Builder (versions 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0) and Microsoft Visual C/C++ (versions 5.0, 6.0, and 7.0).

For example, to compile plus1.m into a COM object, use

• mcc -B 'ccom:addin,addin,1.0' plus1.m
  

For more information, see the MATLAB COM Builder documentation.

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