Using coder.target to differentiate between Matlab environment and coder

Hi,

I'm trying to provide a map functionality to algorithms written in Matlab which are later converted to C code and used in C framework. As any map (I call it container in the code) it has the porpuse to store different data types in key,value pairs to retrieve them later.

Here is the Matlab code which uses coder.ceval() to call the container functions when generating the C code and at the same time I would like to provide the same functionality when the code is executed in the Matlab runtime environment.

function funs = container_helper_functions() %#codegen

    funs.container_add_string = @container_add_string;
    funs.container_add_double = @put_double;
    funs.container_get_double = @get_double;
    funs.container_hasKey = @hasKey;
    if coder.target('MATLAB')
        global container
        container = containers.Map;
    else
        coder.cinclude('container_wrap.h');
    end
end

function container_add_string(key, value) %#codegen
    if coder.target('MATLAB')
        global container
        container(key)=value;
    else
        key2 = [key,0];
        value2 = [value,0];
        coder.ceval('put_string', coder.rref(key2), coder.rref(value2));
    end
end

function put_double(key, value) %#codegen
    if coder.target('MATLAB')
        global container
        container(key)=value;
    else
    key2 = [key,0];
    
    coder.ceval('put_double', coder.rref(key2), value);
    end
end

function result = get_double(key, result) %#codegen
    if coder.target('MATLAB')
        global container
        result = container(key);
    else
    key2 = [key,0];
    
    result = 0;
    result = coder.ceval('get_double', coder.rref(key2));
    end
end

This works fine in the Matlab environment:

fncs.put_double('test',2);
out=fncs.get_double('test')

But when I try to generate C code using the coder I get this error complaining about the global variable even though I use coder.target('MATLAB'):

??? GLOBAL declarations may only appear at the top-level.

Error in ==> container_helper_functions Line: 8 Column: 9
Code generation failed: View Error Report

Shouldn't the global variable be ignored when generating C code since it's guarded by the if statement ?

if coder.target('MATLAB')