Can I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 with MATLAB R2019a or R2018b?

Can I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 with MATLAB R2019a or R2018b?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

No. https://www.mathworks.com/support/requirements/supported-compilers.html

You can use VS 2017 but not VS 2019 at this time.

[wei yang]

OK, thank you

[Xianshan Zhang]

Is there any plan to support VS2019 in MATLAB R2019a?

[Walter Roberson]

You would need to contact Mathworks Sales to get information about forthcoming plans. Everything I know about future plans is under NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement.)

[Royi Avital]

Usually you can do some manual tricks to add support. One needs to look for other posts in the forum to see how to do it.

Answer 2

[Onur Bektas]

With Matlab 2019a Update 3 Visual Studio 2019 is officially supported.

See: https://www.mathworks.com/support/requirements/supported-compilers.html#n13

[Tom Grieve]

This really ought to become the accepted answer.

Answer 3

[Royi Avital]

I'm not sure how the search for Compiler works for the mex command.

From 5 minutes research I did I came to the conclusion it works as following:

• It goes through each xml file in C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2018b\bin\win64\mexopts.
• Each xml file define places to look and priority (In case you have more than 1).
• The search goes by priority and set the compiler it finds with the highest priority among all those found.

Once it finds a compiler it creates an xml file named C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\MathWorks\MATLAB\R2018b\mex_C_win64.xml.

Now, in MATLAB R2018b and probably R2019a you have files searching for VS 2017 but not for 2019.

I took msvc2017.xml and msvcpp2017.xml renamed them to msvc2019.xml and msvcpp2019.xml. I edited their content for what I think would be right for Visual Studio 2019. Basically updating version number from 15.0 to 16.0.

I attached a zip file witho those to the answer.

I think if you copy them into C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2018b\bin\win64\mexopts\ and run mex -v -setup it should work.

[Rody Oldenhuis]

On R2019a, there's still no official support. This solution -almost- worked; I had to add a REG_SZ to the registry at:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7 

with content:

Name: 16.0 
Value: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\

After that, everything worked like a breeze.

[Royi Avital]

I thought that would be something added by VS 2019 setup. What key does VS 2019 add?

[Jie Xie]

How to deal with Visual Studio Community version 2019

[Walter Roberson]

Jie Xie, which release are you using?