Setting up mex to use the Visual Studio 2013 compiler

Hello, I have installed Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2013. However, Matlab cannot detect the compiler. When I used the mex -setup and answered "n", I got the following list:

>> mex -setup

Welcome to mex -setup.  This utility will help you set up  
a default compiler.  For a list of supported compilers, see  
http://www.mathworks.com/support/compilers/R2012b/win32.html 

Please choose your compiler for building MEX-files: 

Would you like mex to locate installed compilers [y]/n? n

Select a compiler: 
[1] Intel C++ 12.0 (with Microsoft Software Development Kit (SDK) linker) 
[2] Intel C++ 12.0 (with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 linker) 
[3] Intel C++ 12.0 (with Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 linker) 
[4] Intel C++ 11.1 (with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 linker) 
[5] Intel Visual Fortran 12 (with Microsoft Software Development Kit (SDK) linker) 
[6] Intel Visual Fortran 12.0 (with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 linker) 
[7] Intel Visual Fortran 12.0 (with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Shell linker) 
[8] Intel Visual Fortran 12.0 (with Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 linker) 
[9] Intel Visual Fortran 11.1 (with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 linker) 
[10] Intel Visual Fortran 11.1 (with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Shell linker) 
[11] Lcc-win32 C 2.4.1 
[12] Microsoft Software Development Kit (SDK) 7.1 
[13] Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 
[14] Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 
[15] Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 
[16] Open WATCOM C++ 

[0] None

How can I use Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2013 as my compiler? Thanks a lot!!!!

Kind regards

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

MSVC 2013 was probably released too late for R2012b to include in their mex build files. You might look at this FEX submission:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/44051-visual-studio-2013-support-for-matlab-compiler-toolbox--x64-

[Ken Atwell]

James is correct, see http://www.mathworks.com/support/compilers/R2012b/win32.html

[Jiao]

My system is 32 bit. I have carefully followed the steps in: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/44050-visual-studio-2013-support-for-matlab-compiler-toolbox

But it does not recognize the command "mbuild": >> mbuild -setup Undefined function 'mbuild' for input arguments of type 'char'.

[kuan jiang]

did you solve this problem ?