Problems installing MCR on Win 7 x64

Hi there,

when I'm trying to install the MCR 7.15 I get:

The files for installation requirement VCREDIST_v90_X64 could not be found. The installation will now stop. This is probably due to a failed, or canceled download.

Does anyone have some suggestions how to solve the problem?

Best regards, Sebastian

Answer 1

[Sebastian]

Hi,

thanks for answering my question. I took the MCR installer out of my Matlab directory (C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2011a\toolbox\compiler\deploy\win64). Hard to imagine, that this file is corrupted...

[Friedrich]

I calculated the md5 checksum for the 11a MCR 64bit:

08906239dd109d0f41605984377c7ae5

I used:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/checksumtool/

[Sebastian]

08906239dd109d0f41605984377c7ae5 MCRInstaller.exe

same here... so obviously some other problem... :/

[Friedrich]

Mhh okay. You try to install it on a Win7 x64 machine? Installing the vcredist needs admin rights. do you have those? maybe try installing the vcredist_v90_x64 manually before installing the MCR and see if the same error still occur.

[Sebastian]

Well, I can just find vcredist_x64.exe. The installation of this particular file works fine; MCRInstaller is still broken.

[Sebastian]

Sorry, about the other questions: Yes, Win7 64 bit; yes, I have admin rights.

[Friedrich]

I have never seen this issue before. Seems like you are the first one facing this issue. What happens when installing the vcredist_v90_x64 manually?

[Friedrich]

You can find it here:

C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2011a\bin\win64\vc90

[Sebastian]

I have no vcredist_v90_x64.exe there, just vcredist_x64.exe and I can install it.

[Friedrich]

this is correct so far. when does this error occur exactly?

[Sebastian]

Right after my confirmation, that the prerequisites can be installed. Exact enough? So in order I chose English as language by pressing OK; starting the installation process by klicking "Install"; confirm the changes caused by Setup Launcher by pressing Yes. Next, a dialog window showing the quoted Error-Message pops up.

[Friedrich]

So the error is thrown from the vc_redist installer. There was a known issue with this:

http://www.laplink.com/support/kb/article.asp?ID=1073

Since you are running Win7 it should exist anymore. But the error looks like yours. MathWorks has a solution for this too:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-6LU4O5/index.html?product=CO&solution=1-6LU4O5

So disable antivirus software and the UAC of Win7. The UAC forces a lot of strange Win7 behaviors.

[Sebastian]

I allready tried to disable the Antivirus, but still the installation didn't work out. I tried both installers from the first of your quoted links (of course both for x64). Both worked fine, no problem at all. But still the MCR throws the error.

Answer 2

[Sebastian]

Hello, now I also tried to reinstall the 64 bit version of Matlab as well as the 32 bit version... no success...

Does anyone have any other ideas?

Answer 3

[Jan Buytaert]

As far as I know, VCREDIST is a file of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008/2010 Redistributable Package. Better try to install x32 and x64 of this free package and try again.

Answer 4

[blue rons]

i have the same problem and i installed c++2008/2010 but still the same problem can any body help