Matlab 2015a can't find MS Visual Studio 2010 Compilers

Hi,

I have to use a software which up to now I've been using in Matlab 2010b together with MS Visual Studio 2010. This worked flawlessly. Unfortunately there is a new version of my software which doesn't support Matlab 2010 anymore. So I've been forced to switch to Matlab 2015a, that - according to a compatibility list - should work with my software and MS Visual Studio 2010.

But until now I haven't been able to get it running. If I enter "mex -setup" I get the message that no compilers could be found. In Matlab 2010 I can choose the compiler as I'm used to, so it is installed on my system.

I'm running out of ideas what to do in order to make it work, so maybe someone is able to help me solving my problem.

Greets Seb

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

If I recall correctly, R2015a only supports VS Professional releases, together with SDK 7.1 and the Intel professional compilers, and lcc for 32 bit only.

In particular no Express or Community releases of VS

Use

mex -v setup

to see what it is trying. If it partly finds VS but cannot locate cl.exe then Professional vs not is the likely cause.

Answer 2

[Sebastian Pfeiffer]

OK, as I have 2010 Express that seems to be the case. That's what Matlab says when I enter mex -v setup:

    >> mex -v -setup
Verbose mode is on.
... Looking for compiler 'Intel C++ Composer XE 2011 with Microsoft SDK 7.1 (C)' ...
... Looking for environment variable 'ICPP_COMPILER12' ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Intel C++ Composer XE 2011 with Microsoft SDK 7.1 (C)'.
... Looking for compiler 'Intel C++ Composer XE 2011 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (C)' ...
... Looking for environment variable 'ICPP_COMPILER12' ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Intel C++ Composer XE 2011 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (C)'.
... Looking for compiler 'Intel C++ Composer XE 2011 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (C)' ...
... Looking for environment variable 'ICPP_COMPILER12' ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Intel C++ Composer XE 2011 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (C)'.
... Looking for compiler 'Intel C++ Composer XE 2013 with Microsoft SDK 7.1' ...
... Looking for environment variable 'ICPP_COMPILER14' ...No.
... Looking for environment variable 'ICPP_COMPILER13' ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Intel C++ Composer XE 2013 with Microsoft SDK 7.1'.
... Looking for compiler 'Intel C++ Composer XE 2013 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (C)' ...
... Looking for environment variable 'ICPP_COMPILER14' ...No.
... Looking for environment variable 'ICPP_COMPILER13' ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Intel C++ Composer XE 2013 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (C)'.
... Looking for compiler 'Intel C++ Composer XE 2013 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (C)' ...
... Looking for environment variable 'ICPP_COMPILER14' ...No.
... Looking for environment variable 'ICPP_COMPILER13' ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Intel C++ Composer XE 2013 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (C)'.
... Looking for compiler 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (C)' ...
... Looking for environment variable 'VS90COMNTOOLS' ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (C)'.
... Looking for compiler 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (C)' ...
... Looking for environment variable 'VS100COMNTOOLS' ...Yes ('C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools\').
... Looking for file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\amd64\cl.exe' ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (C)'.
... Looking for compiler 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 (C)' ...
... Looking for registry setting 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7' 11.0 ...No.
... Looking for registry setting 'HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7' 11.0 ...No.
... Looking for registry setting 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7' 11.0 ...No.
... Looking for registry setting 'HKCU\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7' 11.0 ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 (C)'.
... Looking for compiler 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Professional (C)' ...
... Looking for registry setting 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7' 12.0 ...No.
... Looking for registry setting 'HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7' 12.0 ...No.
... Looking for registry setting 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7' 12.0 ...No.
... Looking for registry setting 'HKCU\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7' 12.0 ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Professional (C)'.
... Looking for compiler 'Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1 (C)' ...
... Looking for registry setting 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1' InstallationFolder ...Yes ('C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\').
... Looking for registry setting 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VC7' 10.0 ...Yes ('C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\').
... Looking for file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\amd64\cl.exe' ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1 (C)'.
Error using mex
No supported compiler or SDK was found. For options, visit 
http://www.mathworks.com/support/compilers/R2015a/win64.html.

So, would 2016b together with VS 2015 Pro work for sure? I can't try that right now but would like to know if this is going to work, before I go through the trouble of getting everything together and installing everything...

[Walter Roberson]

VS 2015 Professional is supported by R2016b. https://www.mathworks.com/content/dam/mathworks/mathworks-dot-com/support/sysreq/files/SystemRequirements-Release2016b_SupportedCompilers.pdf