Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Mex and Mbuild Setup Files

Use these files to compile mex files from matlab command prompt with Visual Studio 2008

Description

I installed Microsoft Visual Studio(MVS) 2008 and Matlab R2007b and tried "mex -setup" command from Matlab. However my MVS 2008 was not recognized by Matlab. I debugged mex.m and found a way to show MVS 2008 to Matlab. Necessary files are located at 2 different directories in zip file (VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX64 and VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX86), one is for win32 Operating System(OS) and the other one is for win64 OS. There is also "directory.txt" file in the zip which shows the directory that you should copy necessary files to. I'm using VISTA ultimate edition, but this may work for other OS(not tested). Simply copy 6 files in one of these directories(depend on your OS) to the directory specified in directory.txt and try "mex -setup" again. (Procedure for mbuild is similar to this one.)

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; Microsoft 32/64-bit Visual C++ 2008 Express support files
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)
• Other requirements: Windows Vista x86 or x64 architectures (May work for winXP) Visual Studio 2008 Tested in Matlab R2007b

Other Files

VS2008MATLABMBuildCompilerFilesX86/msvc90compp.bat,
VS2008MATLABMBuildCompilerFilesX86/msvc90compp.stp,
VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX64/msvc90engmatopts.bat,
VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX64/msvc90freeengmatopts.bat,
VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX64/msvc90freeopts.bat,
VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX64/msvc90freeopts.stp,
VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX64/msvc90opts.bat,
VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX64/msvc90opts.stp,
VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX86/msvc90engmatopts.bat,
VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX86/msvc90freeengmatopts.bat,
VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX86/msvc90freeopts.bat,
VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX86/msvc90freeopts.stp,
VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX86/msvc90opts.bat,
VS2008MATLABMexCompilerFilesX86/msvc90opts.stp,
directory.txt,
VS2008MATLABMBuildCompilerFilesX64/msvc90compp.bat,
VS2008MATLABMBuildCompilerFilesX64/msvc90compp.stp

[Dimitri Shvorob]

Thanks a lot! (Is there a way to make 'mbuild -setup' see VS 2008 too?)

[Pablo Sala]

Very helpful. Thank you very much!

[Vakur VEZIR]

Hi everyone,
Is there someone tried this on XP operating system? Please comment if so.
You are all welcome!

[Ali Sinop]

Works perfect under XP. Thanks a lot.

[Erik Von Wurstelberg]

it does not work with
vista business x64
MVS 2008
R2007b
installation is ok
compiling give the following error message
  C:\PROGRA~1\MATLAB\R2007B\BIN\MEX.PL:
  Error: Using options file:
         C:\Users\Nataste\AppData\Roaming\MathWorks\MATLAB\R2007b\mexopts.bat
         You cannot use this file with the WIN64 architecture because it enables
         a compiler for a different architecture.
         Running mex -setup may resolve this problem.

[Nhan Tien Cao]

works perfectly, you are pro, thank you very much!

[Tsen Yao Peng]

Does not work Vista 64 Matlab 2007

[Itzik Pinhas]

Works perfectly.
Thank you very much.

[Rainer Betrug]

Thank's!
works perfect with XP and Matlab2007b

[Tiago da Silva]

I love you

[Armado Torres]

It cannot compile x64 mex files...
useless

[Andre Pfeuffer]

Only standard and professional versions of Visual Studio 2008 can handle AMD64

[Eric Tsai]

Windows 2003 X86/X64 with SP2 tested.

[ivan scardanzan]

does not seem to work under win xp 64

[Dean Fang]

I wrote a document to describe how to adapt this for compiling 64-bit Matlab mex files using Visual Studio 2008. Please find it on our lab wiki and let me know how that works for you.

http://comkat.case.edu/comkat/comkat_wiki/index.php?title=Support:Tech_notes

Basically the trick is to force the mex to use the 64-bit compilers and libraries.

[Nirmal Jayaram]

Does someone know how to get MATLAB R2007b to recognize Visual studio 2008 for Windows xp64? The procedures suggested by Vakur VEZIR and Dean Fang don't seem to work as such.

[sqhbrd hbtjv]

I have :
matlab 7.4.0 (R2007a)
& microsoft visual studio 2008 pro edition (9.0)
Simple, and it's working.
Thanks a lot !!!

[IWBT TUBS]

just what we seem to need

[Frustrated User]

I had tried to fool Matlab in to beliving that VS 9.0 was VS 8.0 and only got 1/2 way there.

I installed these files and it worked like a charm. Thanks

[Bruno Carozza]

Thanks a bunch!! Working perfectly

[Stefan Atev]

Worked without issues

[Leos Junek]

Does not work at x64 Vista Ultimate & Matlab 2007a & MS Visual Studio Pro 2008(ver. 9.0). Causing same error as described on 2008-02-11 by Erik Von Wurstelberg.

[Sudarshan Dayanidhi]

Thanks!!! Recognition worked like a charm. However one still needs to have Windows SDK installed and the environment variable MSSDK set so that the compiler can actually work.

[Liuqing Yang]

the matlab2007 didn't have the extern lib for the vs2008(msvc90)

[Paris Kaimakis]

Many thanks Vakur, I found your post and attached .zip very helpful!

[Alexander Pastukhov]

Thanks a lot! Worked perfectly with Windows XP SP 3 and Matlab v7.5.0!

[Hauke Heibel]

Quite nice work so far! Unfortunately there is kinda big show stopper if you would want to compile with debug information (-g). Actually you really need to add /MDd to the DEBUGFLAGS in the msvc90compp.bat and in the msvc90opts.bat. In case these flags are missing your Matlab may completely crash. Once the files are changed, you need to re-run 'mex -setup'.

[Hauke Heibel]

Anyways... thumbs up! :)

[Sharschchandra Bidargaddi]

Hi,

I copied the files, and when I choose Visual C++ 2008 version, I get this error.

Please can any tell me what would be the problem?

Undefined subroutine &mexsetup::correct_version called at C:\MATLAB701\BIN\WIN32\mexopts\msvc90opts.stp line 25, <STDIN> chunk 2.
??? Error using ==> mex
Unable to complete successfully

Thanks,
Sharsch

[Wang Tianhui]

I installed VC2008 in path "D:\programs\" and mex reported cannot-find-cl.exe error when I mex my cpp files after following the instructions provided by this article. But it works after I made the following changes:

in file msvc90opts.stp (Revision: 1.1.10.2):
change the line --
  my $default_location = "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0";
to my vc installed path --
   my $default_location = "D:\\Programs\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0";

[Larry Baker]

We were unable to use the files here with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express. I have uploaded our support files for 32/64-bit Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express with the latest Windows Platform SDK are at http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22689.

[mklml]

hi woudl you also have ideas on how I can associate the link files ? I have downloaded MVS2008 and used your files to install it. I want to instal an Intel fortran compiler and it keeps requesting the 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 linker' ?

[Amaren]

i am getting the following error when i use mex - setup and then respond 'y'. what may be the reson. Please help
the error is
Undefined subroutine &mexsetup::correct_version called at C:\MATLAB7\BIN\WIN32\mexopts\msvc90opts.stp line 25, <STDIN> chunk 1.

[Gerald Lodron Lodron]

cool thanx

[Carlos Guerrero Mosquera]

Doesn't work at x64 Vista Business, Matlab R2007b and MS Visual Studio 2008. I tried with mex-setup but was not recognized by Matlab. The installation is OK but and the end you can't use the compiler :-(

[Daniel Wright]

I get the following error when I use mbuild -setup:

Undefined subroutine &mexsetup::correct_version called at C:\MATLAB701\BIN\WIN32\mbuildopts\msvc90compp.stp line 26, <STDIN> chunk 1.
??? Error using ==> mbuild
Unable to complete successfully

I see that 2 others have had the same issue. Any suggestions are welcome; please send me an email. I am using Matlab 7.0.1 (R14) in Windows XP on an x86 machine

[Seong-Joo]

It worked! Thank you.