how to install Matlab API in caffe

    In caffe, sometimes, it is convinient to use matlab function to do calculation, like SVD deconposition. But install Matlab API is very annoying.

    1, edit Makefile.configure----MATLAB_DIR

    In my conputer: MATLAB_DIR := /usr/local/MATLAB/R2013b/

    2, compiler matlab API

    make matcaffe

    3, test whether Matlab API can work well

    make mattest

    In this step, many problem will arise. since in my computer, Matlab version is 2013b which only support gcc-4.7.x, but my os is fedora with gcc-5.1 inside. When I run make mattest, the first problem also arise frequently on internet:

    ibstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21'.

    Then I do following the internet:

  export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6

    But another problem arised when I run program:

    /home/niuyue/cnn_project/caffe-master/matlab/+caffe/private/caffe_.mexa64: undefined symbol:
    _ZN2cv8imencodeERKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEERKNS_11_InputArrayERSt6vectorIhSaIhEERKSB_IiSaIiEE
 
    I search in the internet for long time, but nothing useful got until I find these:

    https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/issues/655

    https://github.com/kyamagu/mexopencv/issues/64

    https://github.com/kyamagu/mexopencv/issues/62#issuecomment-15054244

    http://blog.csdn.net/lien0906/article/details/46816243

    I find the problem is not only libstdc++, and we also need to replace other libs in Matlab.

    export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libopencv_highgui.so.2.4:/usr/lib64/libopencv_imgproc.so.2.4:/usr/lib64/libopencv_core.so.2.4:/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6:/usr/lib64

    /libfreetype.so.6 matlab

    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/

    Finally, the problem is solved, and I can call caffe function in Matlab.