Johan Löfberg

Johan Löfberg

Yep.

MATLAB 2016 + CPLEX crash

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Update: Use CPLEX 12.8 and MATLAB 2017 or later. Other combinations are unstable

Update: This fix is now available in the official version

CPLEX and/or MATLAB 2016 has a bug which causes this combination to cause a seg-fault when YALMIP is used.

The crash apears inside sdpsettings which crashes violently, and this function is called when YALMIP sets up an options structure, no matter solver you will use. The problem is the function cplexoptimset supplied by CPLEX

Possible work-arounds

  • Edit sdpsettings.m and change cplex = cplexoptimset(‘cplex’); to cplex = cplexoptimset;. The drawback is that the options structure is reduced, i.e., this call does not create a complete set of options. If you are using export or doing sum-of-squares computations, you have to edit prunecplexoptions.m too.

  • Alternatively, look around for another solver. GUROBI and MOSEK has a better history of fixing their critical bugs rapidly.

An upcoming patch-release of YALMIP will try to code around these issues (temporary fix already available in develop branch.)