Product Requirements for MATLAB R2020b
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Supported Compilers
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.
System and Product Requirements for Previous Releases
Supported Windows Compilers for MATLAB
For MEX-file compilation, loadlibrary
, and external usage of MATLAB Engine and MAT-file APIs
Notes for the Windows Platform
- Visual Studio 2017 can be downloaded from the Visual Studio documentation. 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.
- Intel compilers require that Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, 2017, or 2019 also be installed on your system.
- Only MEX targets supported for this compiler. Toolchain is not supported.
- MinGW has been updated to version 6.3 as of R2020a
- Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 for C/C++ and Fortran are not supported as of R2020b.
Supported macOS Compilers for MATLAB
On the Mac, 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.
Note:
- Support for Xcode 10.x will be discontinued in a future release.
- Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 for C/C++ and Fortran are not supported as of R2020b.
For MEX-file compilation, loadlibrary
, and external usage of MATLAB Engine and MAT-file APIs
- Xcode 11.x
- Xcode 10.x
- Intel Parallel Studio XE 2019 for Fortran
- Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 for Fortran
To determine the version of Xcode installed, start Xcode and then select Xcode->About Xcode.
Supported Linux (64-bit) Compilers for MATLAB
On Linux, no C compiler is supplied with MATLAB. The GNU compiler (GCC) is included with many Linux distributions.
Note:
- GCC versions 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x are now supported. GFortran 8.x is now the supported version.
For MEX-file compilation, loadlibrary
, and external usage of MATLAB Engine and MAT-file APIs
- GCC C/C++ 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
- GNU GFortran 8.x
To determine the version of your compiler, see Answer 99897.
MATLAB Interfaces to Other Languages
MATLAB® and its add-on products are compatible with the following versions of other programming languages. For information about which versions of Python are compatible with previous releases of MATLAB, see Versions of Python Compatible with MATLAB Products by Release. For more information, see Using MATLAB with Other Languages.
Language | Engine API | MATLAB Interfaces to Other Languages | MATLAB Compiler and MATLAB Compiler SDK | MATLAB Production Server |
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Calling MATLAB from another language | Calling other languages or system components from MATLAB |
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C - All versions prior to 11 |
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C - Version 11 | ||||
C++ - All versions prior to 11 |
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C++ - Version 11 | ||||
C++ - Version 14 | ||||
Fortran - All versions | ||||
Python 2.7 | ||||
Python 3.6 |
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Python 3.7 |
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.COM components and apps - all versions | ||||
Java 8 (Oracle Java and OpenJDK) |
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.NET CLR version 2.0 | ||||
.NET CLR version 4.0 | ||||
HTTP 1.1 | ||||
Perl 5.26.1 |