MATLAB: What are the possible reasons that a silent installation of the MATLAB Compiler Runtime 7.10 (R2009a) might fail

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I am deploying an application that silently installs the MCR on a deployment machine. I find during testing that the installation process fails when .NET Framework 2.0 is not installed, but no indication is given for the reason for failure. Missing the Framework does not impact my code, and I researched how to determine when the user does not have this so I can issue a warning and exit.

I would like to be able to verify that all preconditions are satisfied for the successful silent installation of the MCR, or else issue an error message and exit from my setup program or script.

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The required pre-conditions for a successul silent MCR installation are:

1) The user must have administrative rights.

2) The user must have .NET Framework 2.0 or later installed.

3) The user must not be installing to a network drive, or the .NET will not allow registration of assemblies since it breaks security. The files will be written but the necessary post-install procedures will not be completed successfully.

4) The user must have sufficient disk space for the entire MCR installation.

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MATLAB: Is it possible to deploy the compiled application in MATLAB 7.0 (R14) and install the MCRInstaller in silent mode

This enhancement has been incorporated in Release 2006b (R2006b). For more information see the Related Solution listed below.

For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

The following steps will accomplish a silent install of the MCR on a Windows deployment machine:

1. Unzip MCRInstaller.exe file in a writeable directory. This extracts the necessary files for the MCR installation. We provide a command line UNZIP utility in $MATLABROOT\toolbox\compiler\deploy\win32 for this purpose ($MATLABROOT is the root directory of your MATLAB installation). Execute the following commands in DOS:

 unzip.exe MCRInstaller.exe

This exposes the file MCRInstaller.msi, which is a standard Windows MSI package that includes the MCR archive.

2. Install the MCR with the following command:

 msiexec /q /i MCRInstaller.msi

This installs the MCR in the directory

%PROGRAMFILES%\MathWorks\MATLAB Component Runtime\vXX

The variable %PROGRAMFILES% is typically C:\Program Files by default.

XX is the MCR version.

In a similar fashion, to uninstall the MCR silently:

 msiexec /q /x d:\...\MCRInstaller.msi

For a network install of the MCR, see the Related Solution.

MATLAB: Do I receive an error message “2908 could not register component” when I try to install the MATLAB Compiler Runtime (MCR) 7.10

When installing the MATLAB Compiler Runtime (MCR) 7.10, an error 2908 can occur during a MCR installation with MCRInstaller.exe because an incompatible .NET Framework has been installed on the target machine.

The MCRInstaller needs to register COM modules and initialize the Global Assembly Cache for .NET Framework on the target machine.

This issue can also manifest in other subtle forms such as in registry errors, uninstalled Windows component, and duplicate profiles. To obtain more information on why the installation was unsuccessful, install the MCR from a DOS command prompt by executing the command:

MCRInstaller.exe /v"/L*v C:\TEMP\MCRLOG.txt"

This will create an installation log MCRLOG.txt in the C:\TEMP directory.

The current workaround is to ensure you have a .NET Framework Version 2.0 or above. For more information please refer to the following link:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2009a/toolbox/compiler/index.html?/help/releases/R2009a/toolbox/compiler/br2jauc-31.html

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