MATLAB complains: __gfortran_transfer_array_write symbol

While running ISSM in MATLAB, the following runtime errors occur:

Invalid MEX-file '/Users/rtwalker/ISSM/trunk/lib/TriMesh.mexmaci64':

dlopen(/Users/rtwalker/ISSM/trunk/lib/TriMesh.mexmaci64, 6): Symbol not found:

__gfortran_transfer_array_write

dyld: Symbol not found: __gfortran_transfer_array_write

Referenced from: /Users/schlegel/issm/trunk/bin/issm.exe

Expected in: /Applications/MATLAB_R2012b.app/sys/os/maci64/libgfortran.3.dylib

in /Users/schlegel/issm/trunk/bin/issm.exe

A good resource of these types of issues is the ISSM FAQ.

This problem has been noted there:

http://issm.jpl.nasa.gov/documentation/faq/matlab/

SOLUTION:

This problem has been reported on Mountain Lion with MATLAB 2013b and Lion with MATLAB 2012b.

The only fix to date consists of replacing MATLAB's library with the one that are on your system, but you will need to have admin priviledges.

We show here the steps for the following MATLAB path: /Applications/MATLAB_R2013a.app/ and libgfortran path: /usr/local/gfortran/lib/.

Before changing the libraries, make a backup:

cd /Applications/MATLAB_R2013a.app/sys/os/maci64/

mkdir OLD

mv libgfortran.* OLD

Then subsitute these libraries by the current ones used by gfortran (copy or symlink)

ln -s /usr/local/gfortran/lib/libgfortran.dylib .

ln -s /usr/local/gfortran/lib/libgfortran.3.dylib .