Troubleshooting

Problems finding libraries and libstdc++

In case Matlab has trouble finding a specific library, a workaround is to launch it preloading the variable LD_PRELOAD (or DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES on macOS) with the full path of the missing library.

On Linux you might have trouble with libstdc++.so since Matlab comes with its own. To use your system's libstdc++ you would need to launch Matlab with:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 matlab

The current version on Ubuntu 16:04 is libstdc++.so.6, make sure this is the case also on your OS.

Tip

You could additionally create an alias to launch Matlab this way: alias matlab_wbt="cd ~/Documents/MATLAB && LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 matlab"

Info

Another solution involving the .matlab7rc.sh file can be found in https://github.com/robotology/codyco-superbuild/issues/141#issuecomment-257892256.