Mex Visual Studio C/C++ compiler

Hello,

I configured Visual Studio Professional 2017 following those steps : https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/348269-how-do-i-set-up-microsoft-visual-studio-2017-for-slrt

Matlab doesn't find an installed compiler even though microsoft compiler file cl.exe exists in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx64\x64

When I am running the command:

mex -setup -v

I get this output:

Looking for compiler 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 (C)' ...
... Looking for registry setting 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7' 15.0 ...No.
... Looking for registry setting 'HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7' 15.0 ...No.
... Looking for registry setting 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7' 15.0 ...Yes ('C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\').
... Executing command 'set "vcroot=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress"&for /f "delims= " %a in ('type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\VC\Auxiliary\Build\Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.txt"') do @if exist "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\VC\Tools\MSVC\%a\bin\HostX64\x64\cl.exe" call echo %vcroot%' ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 (C)'.

Since visual Studio Express is not installed on my computer, I don't understand why "set vcroot" points to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress

I think it should be

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional

instead

Thanks,

Answer 1

[Chidvi Modala]

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