Insatlling Matlab 7.04 (R14SP2) on Windows 10

Hi,

I have Matlab 2019b on my computer and cannot run my old codes on this version and I need to insatll older version like Matlab 7.04 (R14SP2) . I have windows 10 on my compuer and when I try to insatll Matlab 7.04 (R14SP2) it says my PLP has exired. This is probably a compatbility ussue with windows 10. Does anyone know if there is a work around this?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Mathworks Support can create PLP for existing permanent licenses; your R2019b license entitles you to run R14SP2 on the same machine.

PLP are machine-specific so you would need a new PLP to install onto a different machine.

The automated license system is not able to generate PLP; you need Support for that.

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

Running release R14SP2 (which was released in March 2005) on Windows 10 (released in July 2015, over ten years later) is not a supported configuration so it may or may not work.

According to the system requirements the Microsoft Windows operating systems on which running it is supported are 32-bit Windows XP (service packs 1 or 2), Windows 2000 (service packs 3 or 4), Windows 2003 Server, or Windows NT 4.0 (service packs 5 or 6a.)

I'm curious about your statement that your older codes won't work on the newer release. Can you provide a few more details about what happened when you tried? Did you receive errors? They may have straightforward solutions.

[Behrooz Zekavat]

Thank you Steven for your reply. Here are some of fig related error that I get:

Error in matlab.graphics.internal.figfile.FigFile/read (line 31)

hgDataVars = load(filename, '-mat', '-regexp', '^hg[M]');

Error in matlab.graphics.internal.figfile.FigFile

Error in loadFigure (line 31)

FF = matlab.graphics.internal.figfile.FigFile(fullpath);

Error in openfig>localOpenFigure (line 69)

h = loadFigure(filename, visibleAction);

Error in openfig (line 40)

figOut = localOpenFigure(filename, reuse, visibleAction);

Error in analysis (line 32)

fig = openfig(mfilename,'new');

Also there is a P-code associated with the set to code that I have and when I run this I get the following error:

The P-code file xxx..p was generated prior to MATLAB version 7.5 (R2007b) and is no longer supported. Use pcode to regenerate the file using MATLAB R2007b or later.

How can I regenrate thsi p-code corerctrly?

Thanks

[Steven Lord]

That doesn't look like the full text of the error message. Can you show all the text displayed in red, especially the part prior to the "Error in matlab.graphics.internal.figfile.FigFile/read (line 31)" line?

As for the P-code file, get the plain .m file that was used to generate the P-coded file initially and call pcode on it.

[Behrooz Zekavat]

Unable to read MAT-file analysis.m. Not a binary MAT-file. Try load -ASCII to read as text.

[Walter Roberson]

  fig = openfig(mfilename,'new');

change that to

  [mydir, myname, ~] = fileparts(mfilename);
  figfile = fullfile(mydir, [myname, '.fig']);
  fig = openfig(figfile);