I can not open spm12 with MATLAB

every time i try to run spm on matlab this error appears

Error using spm_check_installation>check_basic

SPM uses a number of MEX files, which are compiled functions.

These need to be compiled for the various platforms on which SPM

is run. It seems that the compiled files for your computer platform

are missing or not compatible. See

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPM/Installation_on_64bit_Mac_OS_(Intel)

for information about how to compile MEX files for MACA64

in MATLAB 23.2.0.2365128 (R2023b).

Error in spm_check_installation (line 28)

check_basic;

Error in spm (line 290)

spm_check_installation('basic');

and I used this terminal code to bypass MacOS security, but it did not solve the proplem:

sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Users/benyameensafwat/Important/Neuroimaging/spm12

sudo find /Users/benyameensafwat/Important/Neuroimaging/spm12 -name \*.mexmaci64 -exec spctl --add {} \;

SPM12 path in my device is:

/Users/benyameensafwat/Important/Neuroimaging/spm12

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

SPM12 is not a MathWorks product and so I don't have any experience with it, but based just on the error message and the URL of the page to which you linked (which specifically says Mac_OS_(Intel) [emphasis added]) I'm guessing it requires some MEX-files to run and the author has not compiled and/or distributed those MEX-files for Apple Silicon. I think you're probably going to need to either build those MEX-files yourself or ask the author / distributor of that product to provide them to you.

[Benyameen]

Thank you a lot.

[Benyameen]

For anyone having the same problem, you can download spm compatible with Mac silicon from here:

https://github.com/spm/spm

[jessica lebenberg]

Hi,

I have Matlab2023b installed on a MacBookPro M2 ship, Ventura OS. I cannot install spm12: I've downloaded spm12 from the official website, I've also tried the spm from the github link. Someone successed to install spm within the same configuration ?

thanks ++

jessica

[Benyameen]

Spm12 downloaded from github is working fine for me. Is there any problem you have faced with it?

[jessica lebenberg]

ok, I'm sorry. actually, when I used spm from github, it says:it's impossible to open spm_bsplinc.mexmaca64

I know it's for Intel ship, but I tried https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPM/Installation_on_64bit_Mac_OS_(Intel)#macOS_Catalina,_Big_Sur,_Monterey,_Ventura

it did not work earlier, but seems ok now... I probably did wrong.

thanks for the tips!

[Neuro]

Same problem here. Did you find a solution?

Answer 2

[Amir Dehsarvi]

Install spm12 developers version.