system(...) yields different results than Terminal application on mac

Currently I try to trigger latex compiling out of matlab. On windows it works fine with

system('xelatex arbitrarytex.tex')

however on mac it says

/bin/bash: xelatex: command not found

However it works if I write the exact same command in terminal application by hand. Probably environmental variables are not loaded, however there is neither ~/.bashrc nor ~/.bash_profile existing on my system. I figure there must be another file to load before accessing system default variables? Someone familiar with that?

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

You need to set your MATLAB PATH environment variable.

See Walter's answer and my comment to this similar question that I asked a while ago.