How to Install MATLAB Runtime on Azure App Service

Question

Hello, I have published an ASP.NET core web API to the Azure App service. The API is dependent on a MATLAB dll for calculations. In order for the API to function on the cloud, I need to install the MATLAB 2020b Compiler on the Azure App service. What have I tried so far:

• Installed the MATLAB 2020b compiler's installer as a zip file through curl from the CMD and Powershell of the App Service.
• curl -o MCR_R2020b_win64_installer.zip https://ssd.mathworks.com/supportfiles/downloads/R2020b/Release/4/deployment_files/installer/complete/win64/MATLAB_Runtime_R2020b_Update_4_win64.zip
• After installing, when I try to unzip the installer's zip file, I'm faced with the following errors presented in the picture. What do I need help with:
• How to successfully unzip and install the Matlab compiler?
• Is there a better way to do this?

What do I need help with:

• Installed the MATLAB 2020b compiler's installer as a zip file through curl from the CMD and Powershell of the App Service.
• curl -o MCR_R2020b_win64_installer.zip https://ssd.mathworks.com/supportfiles/downloads/R2020b/Release/4/deployment_files/installer/complete/win64/MATLAB_Runtime_R2020b_Update_4_win64.zip
• After installing, when I try to unzip the installer's zip file, I'm faced with the following errors presented in the picture. What do I need help with:
• How to successfully unzip and install the Matlab compiler?
• Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

@Anonymous , Just checking if you had a chance to see the previous response by Lex Li.

Just to highlight, the standard/native Azure Web Apps run in a secure environment called a sandbox. Each app runs inside its own sandbox, isolating its execution from other instances on the same machine as well as providing an additional degree of security and privacy which would otherwise not be available.

Additional information on this, Azure App Service provides pre-defined application stacks on Windows like ASP.NET or Node.js, running on IIS. The preconfigured Windows environment locks down the operating system from administrative access, software installations, changes to the global assembly cache, also it does not allow the registration of COM components on the platform. and so on.
In this case, you may leverage custom container.

Checkout these docs:

Operating system functionality on Azure App Service

Run a custom container in Azure

Answer 2

as you are using asp.net core, you should probably switch to linux docker containers.

https://hub.docker.com/r/mathworks/matlab

you can add the asp.net core runtime, and test locally.

Your other option is to use a windows VM if windows hosting is required, but this will cost more and not as easy to scale.