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supported only by specific editions of Windows (“Home”, “Professional”, “Enterprise”
etc.); all such editions are thus supported if the main version is supported.
For the Windows platform, Microsoft C/C++ compiler must be installed separately. The
following compilers are supported for Dymola 2013 FD01 on Windows:
Free editions:
• Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition (9.0)
• Visual C++ 2010 Express (10.0)
Professional editions:
• Visual Studio 2005 (8.0)
• Visual Studio 2008 (9.0)
• Visual Studio 2010 (10.0)
Linux
On Linux, Dymola 2013 is supported on Red Hat Enterprise 5.1 with gcc version 4.1.1, and
compatible systems (32 bit). Please note that multi-criteria design optimization is not
supported on Linux. There is no native Dymola 64 bit application for Linux.
3.5 Other Simulation Environments
3.5.1 Dymola – Matlab interface
UTF-8 support
The UTF-8 support that was introduced in Dymola 2013 is now also available in the
Simulink interface. Description strings (including units) of parameters and start values are
now rendered with the correct Unicode characters in the DymolaBlock GUI.
Support for expandable bus connectors
The Dymola kernel and the Simulink interface have been improved to fully support export
of models containing expandable bus connectors to Simulink. Inputs and outputs that are
propagated to the top level of a model using expandable bus connectors are now
automatically converted to inputs and outputs of the corresponding Simulink block. The
expandable connectors can also be mapped to Simulink bus signals.
Simulink interface updated on Linux
The documentation of the Simulink interface on Linux has been updated to more clearly
describe the two-step export/import procedure. The export step uses the library
ExternalInterfaces 1.2.1 available in the Dymola/Modelica/Library folder of the Dymola
installation.