[Insight-users] improving windows support for FindMatlab.cmake

[Ramón Casero Cañas]

Hi,

The current FindMatlab.cmake fails to find Matlab in many cases, which 
is not a surprise, given the wide combination of Visual Studio and 
Matlab versions available.

I was thinking of how to improve it.

I'm not too sure whether an edited version of

<SNIPPET>
SET(MATLAB_ROOT 
"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\MathWorks\\MATLAB\\7.0;MATLABROOT]/extern/lib/win32/microsoft/msvc60")
</SNIPPET>

would work (I need to do more testing), but at least the way below [1] 
reads the registry variable correctly

<SNIPPET>
GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(MATLABROOT
"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\MathWorks\\MATLAB\\7.11;MATLABROOT]"
ABSOLUTE
)
</SNIPPET>

The problem is that for each Matlab version, we get a different number, e.g.

2007a -> 7.4
2007b -> 7.5
2008b -> 7.7
2010b -> 7.11

Is there are way to do this in a more general way?


[1] http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2007-August/015729.html

Best regards,

Ramon.

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Dr. Ramón Casero Cañas

Computational Biology
Department of Computer Science
University of Oxford
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