Version mismatch leading to `exportgraphics` error - matlab

When running this code in Matlab 2022a (on Windows)
fig = figure;
exportgraphics(fig, 'd:\plot.emf');
I get the error
Error using exportgraphics
The class matlab.graphics.internal.mlprintjob has no Constant property or Static method named 'containsUIElements'.
I used the same exportgraphics command above for a long time, without problems. In the meantime, I copied the exportgraphics.m file from c:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022a\toolbox\matlab\graphics\printing\en\ to c:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2019b\toolbox\matlab\graphics\printing\, in the hopes of being able to use it in Matlab 2019b too. That didn`t work, and when I exited Matlab 2019b and deleted the .m file from its folder, then entered Matlab 2022a, the above error happened.
There's probably been a confusion of file versions, although there seems to now only ever be the 2022a version left:
>> which -all exportgraphics
C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022a\toolbox\matlab\graphics\printing\exportgraphics.p
Running restoredefaultpath and savepath doesn't help. What else can I try?
A second question would be: is there a way to make exportgraphics work in Matlab 2019b, if (clearly) the method of just copying the file over from v2022a does not work?

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Link to gfortran for mex file

I am trying to create mex files for using some C++ code in Matlab, but running into an error with the compilation which, I guess, goes beyond Matlab. I am on Windows.
The example I'm struggling with is the Mex Interface example in the Armadillo library for linear algebra, available: here. The Matlab file is what I'm running and it looks like this:
% Compile the demo as a mex file
mex -lgfortran armaMex_demo.cpp -I/path/to/armadillo
The error I get is:
Error using mex
MEX cannot find library 'gfortran' specified with the -l option.
MEX looks for a file with one of the names:
libgfortran.lib
gfortran.lib
Please specify the path to this library with the -L option.
Trying some things I found online, I installed MinGW and cygwin64 and added the paths to their bin folders to my PATH variable. Before that I also installed MinGW via Matlab.
My question: How do I get it to link with gfortran?
If I search C:for libgfortran I find some files, but none of them have the file ending .lib (but e.g. .dll and .a) and if I search for gfortranI find some .exe files but again, no .lib file. If I run gfortran -dumpversion in the terminal, I get 4.9.3 back, so it is obviously there somewhere. I am obviously missing something, and this is really not my forte, to say the least.

Matlab missing dependency MEX-file

I have a script in matlab that calls other libraries. I use matlab version 2012a on linux . I get below error and I don't know how to fix it.
The error is :
Invalid MEX-file '/home/XXX/nearest_neighbors.mexa64':
libflann.so.1.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
Error in flann_search (line 82)
[indices,dists] = nearest_neighbors('find_nn', data, testset, n, params);
Error in MyScript (line 73)
[nresult, ndists] = flann_search(Ntraindata', Ntraindata', resu.KNN, struct('algorithm','composite',...
That library you are referring to - https://github.com/mariusmuja/flann/ - has the nearest_neighbors function written in MEX code. MEX code is C code that is used to interface with MATLAB. People usually write heavily computationally burdening code over in MEX as it is known to handle loops and other things faster. The inputs come from MATLAB and are sent to this MEX function, and the outputs come from the MEX function and are piped back to MATLAB. It's basically a nice black box where you can use it just like any other MATLAB function. In fact, a lot of the functions that come shipped with MATLAB have MEX wrappers written to promote acceleration.
You are getting that error because you need to compile the nearest_neighbors function so that there is a MEX wrapper that can be called in MATLAB. That wrapper is missing because you haven't compiled the code.
First, you need to set up MEX. Make sure you have a compiler that is compatible with your version of MATLAB. You can do that by visiting this link:
http://www.mathworks.com/support/compilers/R20xxy/index.html
xx is the version number that belongs to your MATLAB and y is the character code that comes after it. For example, if you are using R2013a, you would visit:
http://www.mathworks.com/support/compilers/R2013a/index.html
Once you're there, go to your Operating System and ensure you have one of those supported compilers installed. Once you have that installed, go into MATLAB, and in the command prompt, type in:
mex -setup
This will allow you to set up MEX and choose the compiler you want. Given your error, you're using Linux 64-bit, so it should be very easy for you to get GCC. Just make sure that you choose a version of GCC that is compatible with your version of MATLAB. Once you choose the compiler, you can compile the code by doing this in the command prompt:
>> mex -v -O nearest_neighbors.cpp
This should generate the nearest_neighbors MEX file for you. Once that's done, you can now run the code.
For more detailed instructions, check out FLANN's user manual - http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~mariusm/uploads/FLANN/flann_manual-1.8.4.pdf - It tells you how to build and compile it for MATLAB use.
Good luck!

Problems compiling CUDA with MEX in Matlab2014a

I am trying to compile a CUDA program using MEX within Matlab2014a and can't get it to work.
I installed the newest CUDA toolbox (6.5) and driver (340.62) and the samples work correctly, so I guess it is correctly installed.
I also installed MS Visual Studio 2012 Professional and Matlab 2014a.
I followed the exact description in the Matlab Help in "GPU Computing -> Examples and How To -> Run MEX-Functions Containing CUDA Code".
My CUDA file ends with .cu (so I am trying to compile Matlab's standard example mexGPUExample.cu, but I get the same error with other .cu files), the mex_CUDA_win64.xml is in the same folder, the environment variable MW_NVCC_PATH is set correctly in the user variables and just to be sure I also called "setenv('MW_NVCC_PATH,...)" in Matlab.
If I try to compile a CUDA example with
mex -largeArrayDims mexGPUExample.cu
I get the following error:
cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type 'mexGPUExample.cu', object file assumed
cl : Command line warning D9027 : source file 'mexGPUExample.cu' ignored
cl : Command line warning D9021 : no action performed
D:\PROGRAMS\MATLAB~1\BIN\MEX.PL: Error: Compile of 'mexGPUExample.cu' failed.
Unable to complete successfully.
I also tried to set the compiler correctly using
mex -setup
and chose the MS Visual Studio Compiler.
The code itself works because I tested it on other systems.
I have no idea what I am doing wrong.
Any help is appreciated.
Matlab only supports CUDA 5.5 on R2014a, so your CUDA 6.5 by default cannot compile mex files under Matlab. Matlab R2014a supports VS 2012 now, but you need to verify you have VS 64-bit compiler if your Matlab is 64-bit. You can compile a normal .mex file with .cpp source file, (lots of these files under matlabroot/extern folder) to see whether Matlab works well with your VS.
Note that Matlab has a lag in supporting the latest compilers, both VS/gcc and Cuda. It is always good choice to check the compiler requirement by Matlab, before using the latest compilers.
Also check whether your Cuda kit and graphics drivers are correctly installed and work seamlessly with VS. You can compile and run some .cu files under the VS environment.
If you have finished all above and changed to the correct version of compilers, follow the instructions on matheworks website to compile the mexGPUExample file. If my memory is correct, you need to set environment variables and copy the XML file to the .mex file path. Then it should work.

Installing LibLinear on MATLAB R2014a

I'm trying to install LibLinear for MATLABR2014a on linux. When compiling in MATLAB the read.mexa64 and write.mexa64 are created just fine, it's on the train.mexa64 that it fails. The error I used to get was:
/home/admin/Documents/Project/Software/liblinear-1.94/linear.cpp:2739:19:
warning: ignoring return value of ‘int fscanf(FILE*, const char*, ...)’,
declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] fscanf(fp,"\n"); ^
If make.m fails, please check README about detailed instructions.
So I sorted out the handling of the return value in linear.cpp and it still fails, providing only the last line directing me to the README. I've also tried installing gcc-4.7, g++-4.7 and cpp-4.7 but the make process still terminates without any information. As it suggests I have the matlab directory set to:
MATLABDIR = /usr/local/matlab
and I have included
-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
in the CFLAGS just in case it was the ignored values causing a fuss. I managed to compile it from the command line in the main directory and it works fine, but it would be awesome to have a nice MATLAB interface :) If anyone's managed to get it up and running I'd be super grateful for any help!
If anyone stumbles across this then I found a method that seems to work. I tried using the Makefile in the matlab folder directly but kept strange getting compiler errors asking to change the source directory. However, if you go into the Makefile and change the line
MEX_OPTION = CC\#$(CXX) CXX\#$(CXX) CFLAGS\#"$(CFLAGS)" CXXFLAGS\#"$(CFLAGS)"
to
MEX_OPTION = CC=$(CXX) CXX=$(CXX) CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" CXXFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)"
it should work.

SUN benchmark code Invalid .mex file error

I've downloadad the SUN benchmark code from MIT:
version 2:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jxiao/SUN/source_code/
Once I download the 15 image dataset and run the function:
compute_features.m
I get an Invalid MEX file error:
Invalid MEX-file
'/home/arturo/Documents/Virality/reddit_data/SUN_source_code_v2/code/OpenCVmexWrapper/cvlib_mex.mexa64':
libcv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The file /home/arturo/Documents/Virality/reddit_data/SUN_source_code_v2/code/OpenCVmexWrapper/cvlib_mex.mexa64 actually does exist, so I'm thinking the problem hast to do with libcv.so.1, or the .mexa64 file is broken (which is very unlikely)
I read something about adding a path via LD_LIBRARY_PATH when I googled the error, but I'm not sure what path I should exactly add, at least temporarily. I have opencv installed along with its library, so I'm not sure what the problem is. My current system is Ubuntu 12.04 64bit.
There's a similar question here, but the answer says that for their specific case they have the source code of the MEX files posted, which is not the same fortune I have: running old mex file on new matlab releases
Found the answer. The key is to link explicitly to the folder the file 'libcv.so.1' is in just before running matlab.
so in the matlab folder:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/arturDocuments/Virality/reddit_data/SUN_source_code_v2/code/scene_sun ./matlab
And in matlab:
matlab>> compute_feature
Compling the source code in the other folders is also necessary.(vlfeat,VOC,libsvm). As well as editing the path in the function im2superpixels # GeometricContext_dhoiem from :
segcmd = '../segment_pedro/segment 0.8 100 100';
to:
segcmd = '/YOUR_PATH/SUN_source_code_v2/code/segment_pedro/segment/ 0.8 100 100';
*(The folder is one level above.)