MATLAB: Does the MCC –e switch not suppress the MS-DOS window in MATLAB Compiler 4.7 (R2007b)

Question

I have used the –e switch with the MCC command to suppress the appearance of the MS-DOS command window when generating a standalone application. But when starting the standalone application the MS-DOS window isn’t suppressed. I have used the LCC compiler.

Answer 1

The reason the MCC –e switch is not suppressing the DOS window is because of the LCC compiler being used for the compilation process.

MCC tries to create a "WinMain" entry point in the main file when you specify the -e option. However, the WinMain entry point requires the Microsoft compiler to successfully compile. Therefore, if the compiler being used is a non-Microsoft compiler, we actually create a "main" entry point. This results in the DOS window being generated.

To work around this issue, use a Microsoft compiler. The supported compilers are listed on this page:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/compilers/current_release/