Matlab error message when launching on Macbook Pro

I have the 2009 Student version of Matlab that I installed on a PC without any problems a few years ago. I now have a new Macbook that I'm trying to install it on. Matlab went through the installation process without any problems but when I click to launch it, I get this error message.

There was an unexpected exception:

Can't load library: / Applications/ MATLAB_R2009aSV.app/ / bin/ maci64/ libactivation.jnilib

See the log file (/ var/ folders/ S9/ S92lJ5JyES8oaQN-f-0GaU+++TI/ -Tmp-/ TMW_svact_JBest213.log) for more details.

Any suggestions to get Matlab to run would be really helpful.

Answer 1

[Andreas Goser]

"This issue is due to a change in the default Java version from when MATLAB R2009a was released...As a workaround, you can temporarily change your system's default java for applications to use the 32-bit JVM. Once you have activated, you can change it back to Java 6 (64-bit) or J2SE 5 (64-bit)."

Full description is here:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-8GS5S1/index.html