Connect to Matlab engine from C in Linux

Question

I\'m trying to call the Matlab engine programatically from a C program on Linux (Matlab r2009a, Ubuntu 9.10).

I\'ve got my own code (which works in Windows), but for

Answer 1

MathWorks has documented this on their website, specifically the following note:

Note: To run MATLAB engine on the UNIX platform, you must have the C shell csh installed at /bin/csh.

Answer 2

You should run strace on your C program to see where things go wrong. Typically, I found that most of the time it comes down to either:

• Not having csh installed
• Having the environment set wrong, sometimes LS_COLORS screws things up with csh