MATLAB Compiler

Building Excel Plug-Ins

Note    To create Excel plug-ins from the MATLAB Compiler, you must have the MATLAB Excel Builder installed on your system.

You can use mbuild to create a COM object from MATLAB M-files that can be used as an Excel plug-in. The collection of M-files is translated into a single Excel plug-in. MATLAB Excel Builder supports one class 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 Excel plug-ins from MATLAB M-files is available on Windows only. The only compilers that support the building of Excel plug-ins 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 an Excel plug-in, use

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

For more information, see the MATLAB Excel Builder documentation.

Building COM Objects

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