MATLAB and Simulink Requirements

Supported and Compatible Compilers - All Products

A number of MathWorks products or product features require that you have a third-party compiler installed on your system. The tables below outline the compilers that are supported by various MathWorks products. These compilers are provided by a number of vendors and are available under a variety of commercial, academic, or open source terms; visit the providers' websites for further information.

Please see Polyspace documentation for the list of compilers that Polyspace supports in the current release.

 

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MinGW is a supported C/C++ compiler which is available free of charge.

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Note:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Professional is not supported as of R2018b.
  • MinGW has been updated to version 6.3 as of R2018b.
  • Intel C++ Composer XE 2013 is not supported as of R2018b.
  • Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE is not supported as of R2018b.

Windows

MATLAB Product Family

Compiler MATLAB MATLAB Coder GPU Coder
 SimBiology Fixed-Point Designer HDL Coder HDL Verifier Audio System Toolbox
For MEX-file compilation, loadlibrary, and external usage of MATLAB Engine and MAT-file APIs For all features For all features

 For accelerated computation For accelerated computation  For accelerated testbench simulation  For DPI and TLM component generation For validating and generating audio plugins

MinGW 6.3 C/C++ (Distributor: mingw-w64)

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Available at no charge

    
Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 product family11









Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Professional10
  1
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 for C/C++ 3
  
              
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 for C/C++ 3  
              
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 for C/C++ 3              
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 for C/C++ 3              
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 for Fortran 3
  
              
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 for Fortran 3  
              
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 for Fortran 3              
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 for Fortran 3              
Microsoft .NET Framework SDK 4.0, 4.5, 4.6
Available at no charge		              
lcc-win64
Included with products that support it		     6  
 

Simulink Product Family

Compiler Simulink Simulink Stateflow Simulink Coder Embedded Coder Simulink Real-Time
For S-Function compilation For Model Referencing, Accelerator mode, Rapid Accelerator mode, and MATLAB Function blocks For all features For all features When targeting the host OS For all features
MinGW 6.3 C/C++ (Distributor: mingw-w64) Available at no charge  
Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 product family11




 12
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Professional10   1
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 for C/C++ 3
         
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 for C/C++ 3  
          
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 for C/C++ 3          
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 for C/C++ 3          
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 for Fortran 3
         
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 for Fortran 3
         
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 for Fortran 3   7          
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 for Fortran 3   7
          
lcc-win64
Included with products that support it		    

MATLAB Compiler

Compiler MATLAB Compiler MATLAB Compiler SDK
Excel add-in for desktop C/C++ COM .NET Java Excel add-in for MPS

MinGW 6.3 C/C++ (Distributor: mingw-w64)

Available at no charge

   2
  2
      
Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 product family11



   
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Professional10
  4    
Microsoft .NET Framework SDK 4.0, 4.5, 4.6
Available at no charge		       4, 5     9
Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.8
          

Notes for the Windows Platform

  1. The corresponding version of Visual Studio Community is reported to work. Full support for Visual Studio Community has not been qualified by MathWorks.

  2. Microsoft Windows SDK 10 is required to use MinGW with this product. See Answer 355476 for more details.

  3. Intel compilers require that Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or 2017 also be installed on your system.

  4. To build .NET components, a Microsoft .NET Framework must be installed. The .NET Framework v3.0 does not contain a framework-specific compiler; compatible components can be built using the v2.0 compiler. The .NET Framework is automatically installed by Visual Studio. It can also be downloaded from the Microsoft Web site. To execute applications that use the resulting .NET components, the target machine must have the matching .NET Framework installed.
  5. MATLAB Compiler SDK supports building .NET assemblies but not COM objects when using the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK without Microsoft Visual Studio.

  6. This compiler does not support OpenMP. Code generation will treat parfor-loops as for-loops.

  7. Fortran compilers are supported with Simulink only for creating Simulink S-Functions using the MATLAB MEX command. The S-Functions can be used with normal and accelerated simulations.

  8. Simulink Real-Time supports Fortran code in Simulink models using C-MEX wrapper S-Functions.

  9. When building Excel add-ins for MPS, MATLAB Compiler SDK requires .NET framework 4.0 or later.

  10. A compiler is not installed by default with this version of Visual Studio and must be specified while performing a custom installation. See Answer 328432 for more details.

  11. Community, Professional, and Enterprise editions are supported. The Visual Studio installer groups functionality into workloads; the "Desktop development with C++" workload is required for MEX and associated functionality.

  12. See Answer 348269 for instructions on how to set up Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 for use with Simulink Real-Time.

Note:

  • Xcode 10.x is supported as of R2018b.

macOS

On macOS, no C compiler is supplied with MATLAB. If you use products that require one, Apple's development environment for macOS (Xcode) is available in the Mac App Store.

MATLAB Product Family

Compiler MATLAB MATLAB Compiler SDK MATLAB Coder SimBiology Fixed-Point Designer Audio System Toolbox
For MEX-file compilation, loadlibrary, and external usage of MATLAB Engine and MAT-file APIs C/C++ Java For all features For accelerated computation For accelerated computation For validating and generating audio plugins
Xcode 10.x Available at no charge

 

Xcode 9.x Available at no charge

 


Xcode 8.x Available at no charge

    1


Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 for Fortran
           
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 for Fortran
           
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 for Fortran            
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 for Fortran            
Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.8
            

Simulink Product Family

Compiler Simulink Simulink Stateflow Simulink Coder Embedded Coder
For S-Function compilation For model referencing, Accelerator mode, Rapid Accelerator mode, and MATLAB Function blocks For all features For all features When targeting the host OS
Xcode 10.x Available at no charge



Xcode 9.x Available at no charge




Xcode 8.x Available at no charge




Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 for Fortran
   2
        
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 for Fortran
   2        
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 for Fortran   2        
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 for Fortran   2        

To determine the version of Xcode installed, start Xcode and then select Xcode->About Xcode.

Notes for the Mac Platform

  1. This compiler does not support OpenMP. Code generation will treat parfor-loops as for-loops.
  2. Fortran compilers are supported with Simulink only for creating Simulink S-functions using the MATLAB MEX command. The S-functions can be used with normal and accelerated simulations.

Linux (64-bit)

On Linux, no C compiler is supplied with MATLAB. The GNU compiler (GCC) is included with many Linux distributions.

MATLAB Product Family

Compiler MATLAB MATLAB Compiler SDK MATLAB Coder

GPU Coder

 SimBiology Fixed-Point Designer HDL Coder HDL Verifier
For MEX-file compilation, loadlibrary, and external usage of MATLAB Engine and MAT-file APIs C/C++ Java For all features

For all features

 For accelerated computation For accelerated computation For accelerated testbench simulation For DPI and TLM component generation
GCC C/C++ 6.3.x
Available at no charge		  

GNU gfortran 6.3.x
Available at no charge		                
Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.8
                

Simulink Product Family

Compiler Simulink Simulink Stateflow Simulink Coder Embedded Coder
For S-Function compilation For model referencing, Accelerator mode, Rapid Accelerator mode, and MATLAB Function blocks For all features For all features When targeting the host OS
GCC C/C++ 6.3.x
Available at no charge
GNU gfortran 6.3.x
Available at no charge		   1        

To determine the version of your compiler, see Answer 99897.

Notes for the Linux Platform

  1. Fortran compilers are supported with Simulink only for creating Simulink S-functions using the MATLAB MEX command. The S-functions can be used with normal and accelerated simulations.