SPM12 Installation issue Matlab R2021b

Hello,

I've downloaded SPM12 and unzipped the file. I set the path on MATLAB to SPM12 folder and when I enter the command "spm" I receive the following error:

Error using spm_check_installation>check_basic (line 182)

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 MACI64

in MATLAB 9.11.0.1837725 (R2021b) Update 2.

Error in spm_check_installation (line 28)

check_basic;

Error in spm (line 290)

spm_check_installation('basic');

I've additionally had a separate error occur while trying to troubleshoot this that says MEX files cannot be opened by my computer's permissions, and upon trying to change permissions there is not options under the general security system to do so. Thank you very much for any help!

Answer 1

[Marie-Eve Picard]

Have you found a solution ? I've encoutered the same error using Matlab R2022a on a ARM MacOS machine

[Marie-Eve Picard]

This solved my issue: sudo spctl --master-disable in a terminal

Here's some documentation about that command: https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-disable-gatekeeper-mac/