lindahua/MATLAB.jl — pull request #2 by simonster (2013-04-05 00:47:39+00:00)
Title:  Automatically locate MATLAB and MATLAB libraries

This patch allows MATLAB.jl to be used on most OS X and Linux systems without setting environmental variables.

On Linux, the location of the MATLAB home directory is inferred from the path to the matlab executable. On OS X, the Applications directory is searched and the newest MATLAB version is used. The MATLAB_HOME environmental variable may be used to override the default location.

Additionally, this patch provides the full path to libmx and libeng to dlopen(). On the Linux and OS X systems I tested on, this eliminates the need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH or DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH.