diff --git a/gtsam/slam/dataset.cpp b/gtsam/slam/dataset.cpp
index e9ec73a85..4550b418d 100644
--- a/gtsam/slam/dataset.cpp
+++ b/gtsam/slam/dataset.cpp
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ namespace fs = boost::filesystem;
 
 namespace gtsam {
 
+#ifndef MATLAB_MEX_FILE
 /* ************************************************************************* */
 string findExampleDataFile(const string& name) {
 	// Search source tree and installed location
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ string findExampleDataFile(const string& name) {
 		INSTALLED_DATASET_DIR " named\n" +
 		name + ", " + name + ".graph, or " + name + ".txt");
 }
+#endif
 
 /* ************************************************************************* */
 pair<NonlinearFactorGraph::shared_ptr, Values::shared_ptr> load2D(
diff --git a/gtsam/slam/dataset.h b/gtsam/slam/dataset.h
index 7c38e13c9..8da3d6ef9 100644
--- a/gtsam/slam/dataset.h
+++ b/gtsam/slam/dataset.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 namespace gtsam {
 
+#ifndef MATLAB_MEX_FILE
 	/**
 	 * Find the full path to an example dataset distributed with gtsam.  The name
 	 * may be specified with or without a file extension - if no extension is
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ namespace gtsam {
 	 * search process described above.
 	 */
 	std::string findExampleDataFile(const std::string& name);
+#endif
 
 	/**
 	 * Load TORO 2D Graph