I have written a (large) MATLAB program on design of a thermo-fluid system, but I now need to make it executable (what is called "making stand-alone executable files from m-files"). This acts same as compilation in FORTRAN. It seems that Matlab compiler is not part of the MATLAB package and I need to pay for it separately! If this is true, what is the best that I can do (other than buying the complier)? Inverting the program to FORTRAN will also take several weeks.

Please give me any advice you think it might be helpful.

Ally

I strongly recommend you to use the fortran instead of matlab as an engineer. I was also a matlab user before. But most of existing codes and code descriptions in the CFD area have been written in the fortran syntax.

Ask the matlab user community available at www.mathwork.com

Matlab includes lcc (a C compiler) on Window plateform and free C compilers are available for linux. You may try som fortran to C converter (f2c) then use free compiler to create stand alone applications. BUT you must write your program in FORTRAN first.

Hello All,

I have a FORTRAN program and I need to convert this to a matlab program, Can anyone let me know as how do i accomplish this task? I'm pretty new to both fortran and matlab and any help in this regrad is greatly APPRECIATED.

It is possible to run a FORTRAN program through Matlab using MEX file. Please examine Matlab docs.