How to Determine Project dependency for Appdesigner in MATLAB 2017b

I have a project that is a single main app in app designer that i am using as a shell to call 3 matlab scripts and 7 app designer apps. I want to determine Toolbox dependency on the entire project, however the MATLAB documentation mostly shows how to run dependency analysis for simulink models. I have used dependencies.toolboxDependencyAnalysis function on my matlab script files and app files but it only returns {'MATLAB'} . Any Suggestions ?

[Image Analyst]

Are you certain there are other things called other than what's in base MATLAB?

[Saif Khan]

One of the apps is utilizing "Instrument Control Toolbox" for an external device , another app is using "Image Acquisition Toolbox" for using a camera and "Image Processing Toolbox" for data from the camera.

Answer 1

[Aniket]

Hi @Saif Khan,

I am able to reproduce this issue in R2017b. It seems to be a bug in dependencies.toolboxDependencyAnalysis, and is resolved in latest versions of MATLAB.

I have created a file with blocks from multiple toolboxes.

This is the output in R2017b:

>> dependencies.toolboxDependencyAnalysis({'instrument'})
ans =
  1×1 cell array
    {'MATLAB'}

Output from R2024b:

>> dependencies.toolboxDependencyAnalysis('instrument')
ans =
1×4 cell array
{'Aerospace Toolbox'}    {'Audio Toolbox'}    {'MATLAB'}    {'Simulink'}

As a workaround in R2017b, I suggest using matlab.codetools.requiredFilesAndProducts which returns a list of the MathWorks® products possibly required to run the program files specified by files as second output.

[fList,pList] = matlab.codetools.requiredFilesAndProducts('filename')
{pList.Name}'

Note: This function returns some additional products also which might not be relevant to the file provided and are installed with your MATLAB.

Please find more details regarding this function here:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.codetools.requiredfilesandproducts.html

I would recommend upgrading MATLAB to the latest version to avoid all these dicrepencies.