Unable to compile SPM12 Mex files on Mac OS Catalonia

Dear Mathworks,

I've followed the instructions carefully here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPM/Installation_on_64bit_Mac_OS_(Intel)

But SPM12 still does not run on my Mac Catalonia OS (I'm using Matlab 2020a)

Help appreciated,

Thanks,

Samantha Brooks

Answer 1

[Xiaoying ZHI]

Hope you have figured it out. I just encountered some errors and solved successfully on MATLAB R2020b and MacOS Big Sur. Hope they match your problems.

1. When adding the path, I used

addpath(genpath('/full_dir_SPM'))

instead of only "addpath" in the wikibooks, so that other files in subfolders in SPM can be called directly.

2. When executing the GUI, I encountered a popup window saying:

"xx.mexmaci64" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. macOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware.

I solved this by inputting the two lines of commands in this website to Mac terminal, assigning the LOCATION_OF_FIELDTRIP to be the above /full_dir_SPM: https://www.fieldtriptoolbox.org/faq/mexmaci64_cannot_be_opened_because_the_developer_cannot_be_verified/.

Please feel free to tell if this answer does not meet your needs.