How can I compile a mexw64 file without running Matlab

I have a project with several mexw32/mexw64 files. Usually I build those from Matlab, but I would like to be able to build them nightly from some scripts. How can I invoke mex to build those mexw-files without running Matlab itself? Is there a command line version of mex?

[Walter Roberson]

There is on OS-X and presumably on Linux. On OS-X it is at

fullfile(matlabroot, 'bin/mexsh')

such as /Applications/MATLAB_R2014a.app/bin/mexsh

I do not know for MS Windows

Answer 1

[Jan]

You can compile Mex files from within MSVC compilers, see. e.g. http://coachk.cs.ucf.edu/GPGPU/Compiling_a_MEX_file_with_Visual_Studio2.htm . But I don't know, how to start this programmatically.

I use a Matlab script, which is started from a scheduled task to compile the Mex files.