Problem trying to get the Maple Toolbox to install

I am in the process of trying to install the Maple toolbox for Matlab. I have downloaded the Maple toolbox and am trying to follow the instructions on the toolbox install wizard. The wizard first asks me to locate my Maple installation directory. I have the latest version of Maple on a university licence. This works fine. I am then asked to provide the location of Matlab installation which is also a university licence. The problem is that when I specify the correct folder I get the following error:

'Matlab notfound: The installer was unable to detect your copy of Matlab.

I have two copies of Matlab, 2015a and 2008a 32-bit version. I have tried both and neither work.

Does anybody know what the problem is?

Thanks

[Walter Roberson]

As you mention 2008a 32-bit version I speculate that you are using MS Windows. The 2008a 32-bit version for OS-X is, if I recall correctly, not able to work on current OS-X versions, as it was a version for the PowerPC instruction set and current OS-X only support Intel instruction set.

But you might be using Linux instead; that had a functional 2008a 32-bit version that might still be executable on newer systems.

[Ciaran]

Yes, I am using 64-bit Windows 7

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

When I try to load the Maple Toolbox for MATLAB on my OS-X system (I have a current Maple version), it is able to find the directories, but it fails the installation because it is looking for a MATLAB license for the toolbox. I did get confused about this, as my memory of having installed it in the past was that no license was needed. I should probably try again.

Mathworks never sold a Maple Toolbox as such. Mathworks sold the Extended Symbolic Toolkit, up until R2008a, which was an interface to a full version of Maple. They no longer sell those licenses.

The Maple Toolkit for MATLAB is something from Maplesoft, not from Mathworks, and questions should be addressed to Maplesoft. One item I note from their documentation is that the 64 bit version of Maple requires a 64 bit version of MATLAB to make the connection.