Matlab compiler : how do I sign an app with a certificate I supply?

I work in an organisation that is fairly concerned about malicious applications running on internal networks. For that reason, nothing can be installed on a Windows machine unless it's either on a whitelist of known 'major' apps, or contains a certificate that is recognised.

I want to use Matlab compiler to generate an application that can run on production Windows machines without the interactive Matlab environment.

How do I tell Matlab compiler to sign the application it produces, and point it at a certificate that I can supply?

This is standard functionality in things like Visual Studio, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/br230260.aspx

Answer 1

[William Smith]

Answer : there doesn't seem to be any way to do this in Matlab compiler (at least, as of 2016b which I'm currently using).

I worked around it by using the Windows program signtool.exe (part of Visual Studio) explicitly after compilation.

Something like this:

      % compile
      mcc('-m','-R','-startmsg', ...
         '-d', outfolder, ...
         '-v',source,'-o',strrep(target, '.exe', ''));  % compile.  mcc wants the target name without the .exe
      % sign
      system([ 'signtool.exe sign /f MYCERT.pfx /p MYPASS /t http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll /v ' outfolder '/' target ], '-echo');

[Dolev]

Hi , Do you know if there are any updates and if there is a better way now ?