Installation of Matlab Engine API Error: The installation of MATLAB is corrupted.

I'm running on Windows 10, Python 3.10.6, MATLAB R2022b

I'm trying to install the MATLAB Engine API from these instructions. https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/python-setup-script-to-install-matlab-engine-api.html

I've tried from both the MATLAB Command Window, and from the CMD terminal and in both cases I recieve the following error message output

running build 
running build_py 
error: The installation of MATLAB is corrupted.  Please reinstall MATLAB or contact Technical Support for assistance. 

MATLAB is fine, reinstalling doesn't fix the issue and gives the same error. MATLAB runs on its own without a problem.

Is there a compatibility issue or something I am missing?

Answer 1

[Suchitra]

Hello Peter,

From your question I can understand that you are facing an issue while installing MATLAB Engine for Python.

In order to address this issue, MATLAB Engine for Python must be installed as documented. The installation procedure will not work correctly if you do not cd into the matlabroot/extern/engines/python directory and run

python setup.py install 

or if you first copied this directory to some other location and then cd-ed into there.

[Peter]

recieved a new error with that, a permissions/cant create \dist, no access error.

This is a work laptop so I don't have admin rights.

found potential solution, downloading files https://pypi.org/project/matlabengine/#files, extracting .tar.gz files to a folder within "Downloads" and installing there within my downloads folder where I had permissions. It installed to my "Python310\lib\site-packages" folder and once there I could copy the folder to "~\lib\site-packages" for my other environments/spyder etc. it now it appears to be working