Programming for Mac

[Eugene Krel]

Well since Matlab is not free you are not going to find a "link" here. You can get it here though: Online Store - Buy MATLAB, Simulink, and other products

 

[Andy Nguyen]

you mean warez?
I think you can try mathworks.com. They have discount for students. Or get a copy from your school IT dept.

 

[CGiuliano]

Well since Matlab is not free you are not going to find a "link" here. You can get it here though: Online Store - Buy MATLAB, Simulink, and other products

This is the one for 10.4? When I went to this site only the one for 10.5 seemed to work. :-k

 

[kwlmy]

Life is short. Buy a PC and install Linux or use Cygwin on Windows. I use Windows these days. Don't get bogged down by details too much - you are using the computer for some simple programming task not running a space shuttle or skynet.

 

[CGiuliano]

But I am a broke college student whose only means of income are a summer job (over in 10days) and part-time math tutoring... Also, I have a 1.5 year old macbook that I just spent a significant amount of my $-stacks on.

 

[alain]

Why do you need Matlab?

 

[kwlmy]

You can try the Matlab clone Octave, which is free. There may be a Mac version. Google.

 

[liuwensui]

my impression is that octave is hopelessly slow compared with matlab.

You can try the Matlab clone Octave, which is free. There may be a Mac version. Google.

 

[kwlmy]

Maybe, but for learning purposes it should be fine. Correctness, not speed, is the most critical thing for the beginner. Moreover, it is free.

 

[CGiuliano]

Why do you need Matlab?

I'm taking an algorithm class, plus I'm a math major.


I contacted the IT department and I can get the mac version through the school.

Thanks for everyones help.

 

[CGiuliano]

Problems starting matlab

So I just installed MATLAB and every time I go to open it, or "activate it" it returns this error:

There was an unexpected exception: Can't load library: / Applications/ MATLAB_R2009aSV.app/ / bin/ maci64/ libactivation.jnilib See the log file (/ var/ folders/ Mp/ Mp0PQFo9GbKznsjhgBiZf++++TI/ -Tmp-/ TMW_svact_christophergiuliano.log) for more details.

I don't know if this is related, but I'm running 10.6 Snow leopard on an intel based mac. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem?

Thanks.

 

[Eugene Krel]

Have you tried googling the error?

 

[CGiuliano]

Yes. It may be related to the 10.6 software, which is much to new for any posted answers.

 

[Eugene Krel]

MATLAB Central - Newsreader - libactivation exception problem on OS X

you must exercise the google

That's also probably a more appropriate place to post about your issue.

 

[CGiuliano]

Nice! good stuff. Well I guess I didn't try hard enough haha.

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Problem solved!

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Wow, matlab is cool.

 

[bhavnarpj]

Does anyone know how to give command line arguments using Xcode?

I tried the method here - Xcode Tools Tips but does not seem to be working when i print argv[1]
I am trying to read an input file from command line like -
<executable> <input.file> <output.file>

 

[alain]

http://tinyurl.com/nzyuor

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1250354/passing-command-line-arguments-nsargumentdomain-to-program-under-xcode

http://www.meandmark.com/xcodetips.html

 

[John Jurcevic]

http://tinyurl.com/nzyuor

You're a harsh man Alain. Funny, but harsh.

 

[alain]

The two links I posted came as results of the first link.