Debug a mex function in Visual Studio

Question

I\'m trying to wrap existing C++ code into a MATLAB callable function. I\'m using Visual Studio 2013 to generate the MEX file . The MEX file is created properly, I can call

Answer 1

Turns out \bin\matlab.exe actually runs \bin\w64\matlab.exe. So if I ask Visual Studio to run that, breakpoints are triggered as expected.

Running MATLAB this way under the debugger is a lot slower than any other way, but at least now I can debug my code.