It looks like this has been asked many times, but none of the past posts seem to solve my question. All those had to do with matrix/vector while my code does not have any of these, just simple variables. It takes three variables as arguments. It works perfectly fine within the Matlab environment. I only got the error when I compiled it with mcc -m Normal.m and tried to run with the executable like this "./Normal 1 5 0.5". The complete error message is:
Error using /
Matrix dimensions must agree.
Error in Normal (line 4)
MATLAB:dimagree
It is complaining about line 4: N=2/dt, what is wrong with this?
Here is the code:
function val=Normal(l1,l2,dt)
const=(l2/l1-1);
N=2/dt;
S=1.0/sqrt(l2/l1);
Z(1)=S;
for i=2:N
t= -1+(i-1)*dt;
Z(i)=1.0/sqrt(const*t*t+1);
S=S+2*Z(i);
end
Z(21)=1.0/(l2/l1);
S=S+1.0/sqrt(l2/l1);
val=dt*S/2;
end
But dt is not a scalar when passed into the standalone through the command ./Normal 1 5 0.5. It is a character array with 3 elements ('0', '.','5')!
When passing numerical arguments to a standalone, they are passed as strings. Thus, inside the function, you need to convert '0.5' into a double, and similarly for l1 and l2:
dt = str2num(dt);
l1 = str2num(l1);
l2 = str2num(l2);
Note that you can use isdeployed to determine at runtime if the function is a standalone:
if isdeployed, dt = str2num(dt); end
And you might need to display the result:
if isdeployed, disp(val); end
Result:
>> system('Normal 1 5 0.5');
1.4307
>> Normal(1,5,0.5) % .m function for comparison
ans =
1.4307