I was trying to use ODE solvers from MATLAB using the MATLABDiffEq package, however i find a load error due to matlab path not being found. I found that the function matlab_libpath gets the the MATLAB path variable using the Sys.WORD_SIZE:
matlab_home = matlab_homepath()
matlab_lib_dir = if islinux()
Sys.WORD_SIZE == 32 ? "glnx86" : "glnxa64"
elseif isapple()
Sys.WORD_SIZE == 32 ? "maci" : "maci64"
elseif iswindows()
Sys.WORD_SIZE == 32 ? "win32" : "win64"
end
matlab_libpath = joinpath(matlab_home, "bin", matlab_lib_dir)
if !isdir(matlab_libpath)
error("The MATLAB library path could not be found.")
end
return matlab_libpath
However my system is 64 bit and hence the right value for matlab_lib_dir should be glnx64 but Sys.WORD_SIZE returns 32. Why is it spitting out the wrong system bit information?
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 in 64bit AMD chipset.
Thanks