[kepler-users] Mac OS, Matlab, and library paths

[Sean Riddle]

I can't get launchd.conf to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, but for some reason
it doesn't set anything else either. But DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is
settable, at least in some ways:

dhcp33-gc5:~ sean$ DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=hello env | grep "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=hello

I would recommend trying the support including in the build system for
setting environment variables. Create a file
kepler/module-info/environment.txt and specify the value there. You
can look at r/module-info/environment.txt for an example. Note that as
in the example, you can (and possible must, I'm not sure) specify
separate values for all three of the platforms that Kepler supports.

- Sean

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Joe Futrelle <jfutrelle at whoi.edu> wrote:
> I tried that, didn't work.
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> Again, I have no problem setting system-wide environment variables in launchd.conf. If I set "foo" to "bar" then "foo" is set to "bar" in my environment. But if I set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to anything, it's like I didn't set it at all.
>
> Exactly the same behavior with environment.plist. It seems to me like DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is on some kind of blacklist.
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> On Jun 28, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Sean Riddle wrote:
>
>> I always heard that if you wanted to set environment variables for GUI
>> applications in OS X, you needed to edit the environment.plist file. A
>> stackoverflow thread
>> (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x)
>> says it can be set on a per-user basis at ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.
>> However, that thread also says that launchd.conf also works for GUI
>> applications. Maybe try setting it in environment.plist to see if that
>> makes a difference.
>>
>> - Sean
>>
>> PS - Property List Editor in Utilities is what creates and edits .plist files.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Joe Futrelle <jfutrelle at whoi.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi, I'm trying to run Matlab codes from Kepler in Mac OS (Snow Leopard). As an inexperienced user I'm simply firing up the prepackaged Mac OS distribution of Kepler and double-clicking on the app icon.
>>>
>>> It's no problem constructing a workflow with a "Matlab expression" in it, but when I run I get a stacktrace about the Matlab libraries not being on the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>>>
>>> I'm having no trouble finding those libraries manually; they're right where they should be in my Matlab install, and they're 64 bit, and everything seems in order.
>>>
>>> Setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't seem possible in Mac OS; I can set environment variables in launchd.conf, but launchd appears to silently ignore DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH; maybe it's special-casing it for some reason.
>>>
>>> I'm having trouble finding a previous post on this list, or a bug in Kepler's bugzilla database, or a documentation section or FAQ entry that explains how to solve this. It's clear that some people have had problems with this in the past, but I don't see a clear description of what I should be doing. Any and all advice welcome.
>>>
>>> Mac OS version: 10.6.7
>>> Java version: 1.6.0_24 (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 19.1-b02-334, mixed mode))
>>> Kepler version: 2.2
>>> Matlab version: R2011a
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joe Futrelle
>>> Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
>>> jfutrelle at whoi.edu
>>>
>>>
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> Joe Futrelle
> Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
> jfutrelle at whoi.edu
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