Installation Issues with Poetry and version 9.14.3

The report names pyproject.toml and the PEP 517 wheel path; start by reproducing the failure with pip wheel --use-pep517 "matlabengine (==9.14.3)" and inspect the build backend involved in the traceback. The issue does not specify a desired fix, so confirm the expected supported installation behavior before judging completion.

Hi, I tried to install the latest version of the MATLAB engine but got this error:

Warning: Found deprecated key 'default' or 'secondary' in pyproject.toml configuration for source yasa. Please provide the key 'priority' instead. Accepted values are: 'default', 'primary', 'secondary', 'supplemental', 'explicit'.

Updating dependencies
Resolving dependencies...

Package operations: 1 install, 0 updates, 0 removals

  • Installing matlabengine (9.14.3)

  ChefBuildError

  Backend subprocess exited when trying to invoke build_wheel

  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  _get_engine_ver_major_minor returned: ('9', '14')
  _get_engine_ver_major_minor returned: ('9', '14')
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Users\Ryan.Potter\.local\pipx\venvs\poetry\Lib\site-packages\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
      main()
    File "C:\Users\Ryan.Potter\.local\pipx\venvs\poetry\Lib\site-packages\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 335, in main
      json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
    File "C:\Users\Ryan.Potter\.local\pipx\venvs\poetry\Lib\site-packages\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 251, in build_wheel
      return _build_backend().build_wheel(wheel_directory, config_settings,
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 416, in build_wheel
      return self._build_with_temp_dir(['bdist_wheel'], '.whl',
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 401, in _build_with_temp_dir
      self.run_setup()
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 338, in run_setup
      exec(code, locals())
    File "<string>", line 414, in <module>
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 107, in setup
      return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 185, in setup
      return run_commands(dist)
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 201, in run_commands
      dist.run_commands()
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 969, in run_commands
      self.run_command(cmd)
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 1234, in run_command
      super().run_command(command)
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 988, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\wheel\bdist_wheel.py", line 346, in run
      self.run_command("build")
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\cmd.py", line 318, in run_command
      self.distribution.run_command(command)
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 1234, in run_command
      super().run_command(command)
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 988, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\command\build.py", line 131, in run
      self.run_command(cmd_name)
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\cmd.py", line 318, in run_command
      self.distribution.run_command(command)
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 1234, in run_command
      super().run_command(command)
    File "C:\Users\RYAN~1.POT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpccoanq8a\.venv\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 988, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "<string>", line 380, in run
    File "<string>", line 216, in get_matlab_root_from_windows_reg
    File "<string>", line 259, in _find_matlab_key_from_windows_registry
  RuntimeError: No compatible MATLAB installation found in Windows Registry. This release of MATLAB Engine API for Python is compatible with version 9.14. The found versions were 9.13.


  at ~\.local\pipx\venvs\poetry\Lib\site-packages\poetry\installation\chef.py:147 in _prepare
      143│ 
      144│                 error = ChefBuildError("\n\n".join(message_parts))
      145│
      146│             if error is not None:
    → 147│                 raise error from None
      148│
      149│             return path
      150│
      151│     def _prepare_sdist(self, archive: Path, destination: Path | None = None) -> Path:

Note: This error originates from the build backend, and is likely not a problem with poetry but with matlabengine (9.14.3) not supporting PEP 517 builds. You can verify this by running 'pip wheel --use-pep517 "matlabengine (==9.14.3)"'.