MathWorks Installation Help

Set MATLAB License Search Path

By default, MATLAB installs the license file on the client computer in the \licenses folder in the

MATLAB client installation folder. However, you can override that location in one of either of the

following ways:

• Specify the path to the license file on the command line during MATLAB startup using the -c

option.

The -c option overrides the entire search order, including environment variables, and uses only

what was specified on the command line. This is the only path MATLAB searches.

You can specify a list of paths to search. When using the -c option, keep in mind the following:

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• If the path to your license file contains a space, enclose the path name in quotation marks.

• If you are specifying more than one license file, make sure to enclose the entire list of license

files in quotation marks.

• Set environment variables.

• MLM_LICENSE_FILE — Specifies the location of the license file, but only for MathWorks

products. (Recommended, because it affects only MathWorks products.) MATLAB searches for

this environment variable first.

• LM_LICENSE_FILE — Specifies the location of the license file for all applications using the

network license manager on this server. It is not recommended that you use this environment

variable, as if affects all Flex-enabled products.

You can use one option or the other, but not both.