issues with SPM12 and iMac (Apple M1) - Sonoma

Question

I get this error. I've tried to fix it following the guidelines online but it seems impossible to solve. Can someone help me please?

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 MACI64 in MATLAB 23.2.0.2485118 (R2023b) Update 6.

Error in spm_check_installation (line 28)
       check_basic;

Error in spm (line 290)
spm_check_installation('basic');

I tried to follow https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPM/Installation_on_64bit_Mac_OS_(Intel)and also this command xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine *.mexmaci64 suggested by Chris Rorden.

Answer 1

I had the same issue and found the solution on the SPM installation instructions website, which worked for me:

https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/docs/installation/#macos

TLDR; in the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/spm/spm.git