What issues should I be aware of when working with MATLAB/Simulink on multiple operating systems?

I am working on a Windows machine, while my colleague is working on the same project with a Linux machine. I would like to know if these versions are completely compatible or if there are any limitations that we should keep in mind.

Answer 1

[Doug Hull]

In general, you can assume that our products are fully compatible amongst all different platforms.

There are some things to keep in mind:

1. MEX-files are platform dependent and therefore need to be regenerated for each platform you want to use.
2. Not all toolboxes and blocksets are available for each platform. For availability and system requirements consult the system requirements page: http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/current_release/
3. In order to handle potentially different character encodings between different machines you can use the slCharacterEncoding function.
4. Component Object Model (COM) programming is available only on Windows platforms.