Trouble loading libmx on Mavericks

[juliainterop]

Trouble loading libmx on Mavericks

[rened]

I found the following workaround, which seems to work for both 2011a and 2012a. As setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH has no effect and setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH crashes Julia I resorted to linking to the offending libraries, placing the links in the directory from where I start Julia:

libtbb.dylib -> /Applications/MATLAB_R2011a.app/bin/maci64/libtbb.dylib
libtbbmalloc.dylib -> /Applications/MATLAB_R2011a.app/bin/maci64/libtbbmalloc.dylib

The cause of the whole issue seems to be related to the fact that cd /Applications/MATLAB_R2011a.app/bin/maci64/; otool -L libut.dylib shows neither absolute paths nor relative references for libtbb*.dylib:

rene:maci64 $ otool -L libut.dylib 
libut.dylib:
    @loader_path/libut.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
    @loader_path/libmwi18n.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
    @loader_path/libmwfl.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
    @loader_path/libboost_date_time.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
    @loader_path/libboost_system.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
    @loader_path/libboost_thread.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
    /usr/lib/libexpat.1.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.2.0)
    @loader_path/libicudata.dylib.42 (compatibility version 42.0.0, current version 42.1.0)
    @loader_path/libicuuc.dylib.42 (compatibility version 42.0.0, current version 42.1.0)
    @loader_path/libicui18n.dylib.42 (compatibility version 42.0.0, current version 42.1.0)
    @loader_path/libicuio.dylib.42 (compatibility version 42.0.0, current version 42.1.0)
    libtbb.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
    libtbbmalloc.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
    /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/Versions/A/CoreAudio (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
    /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.9.0)
    /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 438.0.0)
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 123.0.0)

Interestingly, starting julia from within /Applications/MATLAB_R2011a.app/bin/maci64 yields:

rene:maci64 $ julia -e "using MATLAB"
ERROR: syntax: invalid character ""
 in include at boot.jl:238
 in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:114
 in reload_path at loading.jl:140
 in _require at loading.jl:58
 in require at loading.jl:43
 in process_options at client.jl:242
 in _start at client.jl:389
while loading /Applications/MATLAB_R2011a.app/bin/maci64/MATLAB, in expression starting on line 1

[rened]

just to explore all possibilities which would be cleaner than the workaround above, setting the load path internal to julia (as detailed here: JuliaLang/julia#3364) does not work either:

julia> push!(Sys.DL_LOAD_PATH, "/Applications/MATLAB_R2011a.app/bin/maci64")
3-element Array{Union(ASCIIString,UTF8String),1}:
 "@executable_path/../lib/julia"             
 "@executable_path/../lib"                   
 "/Applications/MATLAB_R2011a.app/bin/maci64"

julia> using MATLAB
ERROR: could not load module /Applications/MATLAB_R2011a.app/bin/maci64/libmx: dlopen(/Applications/MATLAB_R2011a.app/bin/maci64/libmx.dylib, 9): Library not loaded: libtbb.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/MATLAB_R2011a.app/bin/maci64/libut.dylib
  Reason: image not found
 in dlopen at c.jl:27
 in load_libmx at /Users/rene/.julia/MATLAB/src/mxbase.jl:77

[musm]

Is this still an issue?

[musm]

can someone close this, thanks

[musm]

bump

[musm]

let's close this, if there are further issues please reopen with more detail

[musm]

bump for the close

[musm]

bump for the close

[musm]

bump for the close

[musm]

close?

[musm]

@rened I am closing this issue, since there hasn't been any action. If this is still a problem please open another issue.