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From: Jan Houska <houska@humusoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
Subject: Re: No Compilers in my Matlab 7.5 64-bit?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:24:05 +0200
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Steve Amphlett wrote:
> "Daniel " <djs32@buffalo.edu> wrote in message <gs8njg$m3l$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
>> Hello Will,
>>
>> Thank you for your help.  I don't understand why Mathworks would not choose to natively support this feature in XP 64bit.
>>
>> thanks again!
>> -Dan
> 
> Uh?
> 
> The MathWorks provides lcc for those who do not have a proper compiler.  The fact that there's no viable 64-bit version of this is beyond their conntrol.  It's also beyond their control that MS have decided to not offer their 64-bit MSVC++ compiler for free.
> 
> Their supported compilers are clearly stated.  They cost money.
> 
> We're you hoping that TMW would write their own C compiler and give it away for free?

One of the compilers supported for MATLAB 7.5 on Win64 is Microsoft 
Platform SDK 14, which I believe is downloadable at no cost. The latest 
MATLAB 7.8 supports Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition which is 
also downloadable at no cost.

Jan


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