10.3: Using and installing MATLAB 6.5R13 with Panther

Oct 27, '03 10:05:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

After installing Mac OS X 10.3, I was wondering if MATLAB 6.5, which I use regularly, would still work. Since I initialized my disk before installing Panther, I had to reinstall MATLAB. The installation went smoothly, following the guidelines from this hint (see comment by UltraNurd) for installing MATLAB under Jaguar.

Everything worked fine, except 3D OpenGL rendering -- 3D commands will freeze the MATLAB engine. The MATLAB/X libraries must conflict with OpenGL libraries and the new integrated X11 implementation in Panther. You can actually make 3D graphics work by issuing the following command before calling 3D commands (mesh, surf, etc.):

opengl neverselect
I hope Mathworks will release R14 soon, with this problem resolved.

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