How I can set Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 compilers with MATLAB R2021a?

Can I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 compilers with MATLAB R2021a?

I want to use mexopencv, but I can't set Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 in MATLAB, evenso I installed VS2017.

This is error when I am running mexopencv and mex -setup:

Error using mexOpenCV (line 73)
The OpenCV libraries were built using 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2017'.
 Your compiler is 'MinGW64 Compiler (C)'.
 These compilers may not be compatible.
 Note that you can select a compiler using 'mex -setup' command.
 

>> mex -v -setup 
... 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\TeamExplorer\').
... Executing command 'set "vcroot=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\TeamExplorer"&for /f "delims= " %a in ('type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\TeamExplorer\VC\Auxiliary\Build\Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.txt"') do @if exist "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\TeamExplorer\VC\Tools\MSVC\%a\bin\HostX64\x64\cl.exe" call echo %vcroot%' ...No.
Did not find installed compiler 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 (C)'.

Answer 1

[Guru Kumaresan]

Hi Adnan,

By looking at the output from "mex -v -setup", the issue is caused by the Windows registry entry not pointing to the correct installation folder.

To resolve this issue for Visual Studio 2017, please reinstall it in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017" and run "mex -v -setup" in MATLAB.

Since MATLAB has stopped relying on the registry entry from Visual Studio 2019, such issues will not be there with VS 2019 and later versions of VS.

[Adnan Ghaderi]

Thank you Guru, reinstalling worked