Dear Sébastien,

the WSL instructions were for building Dynare for use with Octave within the WSL. It was not about cross-compiling for Windows. I cannot comment on compiling mex-files for Matlab, because Matlab for Linux did not work with the WSL.

Best,

Johannes

Von: Dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dynare.org] Im Auftrag von Sébastien Villemot
Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. November 2018 17:55
An: dev@dynare.org
Betreff: [DynareDev] Building Dynare under Windows

Hi all,

I have added in the README.md file a section explaining how to build Dynare from Windows, using the excellent MSYS2 environment. This tool provides a convenient environment for building native Windows binaries, using a setup very close to the one we use for cross-building the official Dynare package.

The only drawback is that it cannot compile all the docs (MSYS2 does not include Texlive), and so far I haven't succeded in building the MEX for Octave (it may be feasible, but clearly more work and tweaks are needed).

If you are working under Windows, I therefore encourage you to test and possibly use MSYS2.

Johannes: some time ago you contributed instructions for building Dynare in the Windows Subsystem for Linux. These instructions are probably outdated, because the version of Ubuntu mentioned there has no C++14 support. And I am quite surprised that you are able to compile MEX files for MATLAB in this environment, unless you are maybe using a cross-compiler? (in which case it should be documented) So these instructions should probably be updated or, if they're no longer relevant, removed.

Best,

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Sébastien Villemot
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Dynare developer
http://sebastien.villemot.name