Installation Guide
How to install MTEX on you computer.
Download
The MTEX toolbox is available for Windows, Linux, and MAC-OSX at http://mtex-toolbox.github.io/
MATLAB
Since MTEX is a MATLAB toolbox MATLAB has to be installed in order to use MTEX. It works fine with the student version and does not require any additional toolboxes, addons or packages. Check the table below to see whether MTEX will run on your Matlab version.
Matlab | 2015b | 2015a | 2014b | 2014a | 2013b | 2013a | 2012b | 2012a | 2011b | 2011a | 2010b | 2010a |
MTEX 4.1 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | (✔) | (✔) | (✔) | (✔) | (✔) |
MTEX 4.0 | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | (✔) | (✔) | (✔) | (✔) | (✔) |
MTEX 3.5 | - | - | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
MTEX 3.3 | - | - | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Installation
In order to install, MTEX proceeds as follows
- extract MTEX to an arbitrary folder
- start MATLAB
- type into the Matlab command window
addpath your_MTEX_path
startup_mtex
Configuration and Troubleshooting
You can configure your MTEX installation by editing the file mtex_settings.m. This includes also some workarounds for known problems.
Don't hesitate to contact the MTEX authors if you have any problems.
Compiling MTEX
Compiling MTEX is only necessary if the provided binaries do not run on your system or if you want to optimize them for your specific system. Compiling instructions can be found here.
MTEX 4.5.2 |