From: Ashish Uthama on
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:02:06 -0400, Scott <jetaking(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm having some weird issues getting a compiled Matlab program to work.
>
> My research partner made a Matlab program a long time ago that he
> compiled into a Windows executable. It runs perfectly fine if he runs it
> from the command prompt. However, he needs to be able to run this
> program from within a C++ program. So basically, he's be using
> system("myprog.exe <inputs>"); in his C++ program to get it to run.
>
> However, when he does this, he gets the following error:
>
> Severe:
> MATLAB:118n:MissingICUData - ICU data not found
>
> So, I tried running it on my computer. I installed the proper Matlab
> runtime environment, and I tried running the C++ program, and I get the
> same error. However, I found that I cannot even run his Matlab program
> using the command prompt, because I sitll get that error.
>
> Does anybody know what could be the cause of this?

I would suggest contacting tech support.

ICU (http://site.icu-project.org/) has something to do with
internationalization (I didnt know), so maybe something to do with
locale/regional settings in windows perhaps. Though this does not fully
explain why it wont run from the C program on your partners machine.