Cannot understand error message --- Invalid MEX-file

I am unable to understand what the following error statement means. Could somebody please explain how to resolve this.

Invalid MEX-file '/home/kaustubh/navpadfork/fastMarching/toolbox_fast_marching/perform_front_propagation_2d.mexa64': /usr/local/MATLAB/R2015b/bin/glnxa64/../../sys/os/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.8' not found

Answer 1

[José-Luis]

Recent versions of Matlab changed their version of libstdc++.so with all the associated fun that implies. It sounds like it is a bug similar to this.

Copying from the link:

1. Identify the location where MATLAB is installed
2. Navigate to the sys/os/glnxa64 directory within this installation folder
3. Rename libstdc++.so.6 library to libstdc++.so.6.old

and the error might disappear. Otherwise ignore this and reinstate the original name.

[Kaustubh Sridhar]

thank you . this worked :)

[José-Luis]

My pleasure.

Please accept the answer that best solves your problem.

[Alvaro]

Hi, when doing this fix I get afterwars the following error in matlab:

com.jogamp.opengl.GLException: X11GLXDrawableFactory - Could not initialize shared resources for X11GraphicsDevice[type .x11, connection :0, unitID 0, handle 0x0, owner false, ResourceToolkitLock[obj 0x59c93a7e, isOwner false, <4cbaae98, 2acccb5b>[count 0, qsz 0, owner <NULL>]]]

at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory$SharedResourceImplementation.createSharedResource(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:326)

at jogamp.opengl.SharedResourceRunner.run(SharedResourceRunner.java:297)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

at jogamp.opengl.GLContextImpl.makeCurrent(GLContextImpl.java:688)

at jogamp.opengl.GLContextImpl.makeCurrent(GLContextImpl.java:580)

at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory$SharedResourceImplementation.createSharedResource(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:297)

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