Installation and Quickstart

Installing MATLAB

Drake is a MATLAB-based toolbox. It requires:

• MATLAB R2008a (v7.6) or later, R2012a or later recommended
• Simulink

A number of other toolboxes are used by Drake packages. You can check your current MATLAB installation using MATLAB's ver command. You can check the list of packages used by Drake in the README.

Choose an installation method

You can choose to install a pre-compiled version of Drake, or to build it from source. The pre-compiled version is much easier to install, but the source version is easier to update and will make it easier for you to contribute your fixes/improvements.

• Binary installation (in alpha; currently only for Windows 64-bit)
• Source installation (mac, linux, windows)