Linking Error between matlab R2013a and MS VC++ 2013

Question

I am writing a BCI game application in VC++ and require to implement Common Spatial Pattern Filtering (CSP) for feature extraction. Due to the hefty coding involved, I prefer to use an existing CSP Matlab function that I have. I followed the steps as given in here. However, I am getting the following Link error message:

1>------ Build started: Project: Test4, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>test.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _mxGetScalar referenced in function _main
1>test.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _mxDestroyArray referenced in function _main
1>test.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _mxCreateDoubleScalar referenced in function _main
1>test.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _engEvalString referenced in function _main
1>test.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _engOpen referenced in function _main
1>test.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _engClose referenced in function _main
1>test.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _engGetVariable referenced in function _main
1>test.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _engPutVariable referenced in function _main
1>test.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _engOutputBuffer referenced in function _main
1>D:\Test4\Debug\Test4.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 9 unresolved externals
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Could anyone please help me fix the problem? Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As I said in the referred post, you have to keep the platforms consistent:

The platforms of MATLAB and VC++ compile platform must be the same, i.e. Win32/x86 VC++ compile platform can only use x86 MATLAB and x64 VC++ compile platform can only use x64 MATLAB.

You're using MATLAB x64, thus you have to build your VC project in x64 too.