How do I get Matlab 2016a to recognize the Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1 C compiler?

I need to mex some C code in Matlab 2016a on Windows 8.1.

I installed Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 from Microsoft.

But when I run

mex -setup

I get:

Error using mex: No supported compiler or SDK was found.

How do I get Matlab to recognize my compiler?

Answer 1

[Jan]

Please read the corresponing threads in this forum at first: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/?term=SDK+7.1 . The first thread might be useful already:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/101105-how-do-i-install-microsoft-windows-sdk-7-1

If this still does not work, please ask again and post exactly, what you have tried so far and in which order. Otherwise an answer might only repeat, what has been written in the forum already.

[Olivier Ledoit]

Thank you, I have faithfully executed step-by-step this set of instructions:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/95039-why-does-the-sdk-7-1-installation-fail-with-an-installation-failed-message-on-my-windows-system

that was among your recommended list, and it fixed my problem.