Error loading a DLL library on MatLab r2014a (fatal error C1083)

Hello,

I am trying to load a DLL library (LibTiePie.dll) for an USB oscilloscope (TiePie HS5 from TiePie Engineering). I am using MatLab r2014a (64 bit) and Windows 7 (64 bit) with Microsoft SDK + .NET Environement and Visual Studio as a compiler. While executing loadlibrary, Matlab returns the following error:

Error using loadlibrary (line 422)
Failed to preprocess the input file.
 Output from preprocessor is:libtiepiematlab.h
C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\extern\include\tmwtypes.h(41) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'limits.h': No such file or directory

Error in LibTiePie.Library (line 34)
                [notfound, warnings] = loadlibrary(obj.Name, 'libtiepiematlab.h', 'addheader', 'libtiepie');

Error in LibTiePieNeeded (line 21)
    LibTiePie = LibTiePie.Library

I already tried several solutions to solve the problem:

• Moving the header file limits.h from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include to C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\extern\include where twmtypes.h is located. This resulted in an error an antoher header files, so I moved all the header files from the Visual Studio Include folder to the Matlab extern Include folder. This solved the C1083 error but generated a LINK error (LNK1104) that could be also solved by moving .lib files around. In the end I stopped at another LINK error (LNK2001) because I figured that it was an ugly way of solving the problem... And I put every files back to their original location.
• I also tried moving the header files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include which had the same effect as the previous solution.
• I tried to reinstall all Microsoft SDK + .NET Environement and Visual Studio, but the error is still there...

Also this library is working on another computer using the same compiler (Microsoft SDK + .NET Environement and Visual Studio) and Matlab r2013b, r2014a and r2014b... I don't know if that helps, but I also executed the loadlibrary function step by step and found out that the command line generating the error was:

[res,ccout]=system(preprocess_command);

I don't know if the problem comes from Matlab, or the Microsoft compiler or somewhere else... If someone has any ideas of how I can solve this problem that would help.

Thanks a lot!

[Philip Borghesani]

Are the working systems also running 64 bit MATLAB? Something appears to be wrong with your compiler installation or mex -setup.

Answer 1

[Varun Bhaskar]

Hello,

In order to isolate the root cause of the problem, try performing the following steps to see if the compiler is causing it:

1) Reset path for MATLAB :

>>restoredefaultpath
>>rehash toolboxcache

2) Try to load a sample library 'shrlibsample.h' shipped with MATLAB. You can find it in the following folder location:

C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\extern\examples\shrlib

3) You can also try to mex a sample file 'yprime.c' from the same folder location.

If above steps go through successfully, then the compiler is not the root cause of the issue.