From d2c2fa592b84c47eb9dac8cab09b303a98ef9b62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Houtan Bastani <houtan.bastani@ens.fr> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:45:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] update osx readme --- osx/README.txt | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/osx/README.txt b/osx/README.txt index ef1331f87d..0760d5051b 100644 --- a/osx/README.txt +++ b/osx/README.txt @@ -53,13 +53,14 @@ specify a MOD file. Using Dynare with Octave ------------------------ -Dynare is now available for GNU Octave, a free clone of MATLAB (R) (see +Dynare also works on top of GNU Octave, a free clone of MATLAB (R) (see <http://www.octave.org>). -The recommended Octave distribution is the Octave 3.4 -precompiled binaries from Octave Forge, available at: +This version of Dynare is compiled for Octave 3.6.2, and may not work +with other versions of Octave. You can download Octave through the Homebrew +package manager: - http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20MacOSX%20Binary/ + http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew Every time you run Octave, you should type the two following commands (assuming that you have installed Dynare at the standard location, and replacing '4.x.y' @@ -75,10 +76,6 @@ You can test your installation by typing 'dynare' at the Octave prompt. This should give you an error message complaining that you did not specify a MOD file. -For more information about Dynare for Octave, go to: - - http://www.dynare.org/DynareWiki/DynareOctave - Dynamic Loadable Libraries -------------------------- @@ -91,13 +88,16 @@ If the libraries are correctly detected by MATLAB (R) or Octave, the following s be displayed when you launch Dynare: Configuring Dynare ... + [mex] Generalized QZ. [mex] Sylvester equation solution. [mex] Kronecker products. [mex] Sparse kronecker products. + [mex] Local state space iteration (second order). [mex] Bytecode evaluation. [mex] k-order perturbation solver. [mex] k-order solution simulation. + [mex] Quasi Monte-Carlo sequence (Sobol). On the contrary, if the libraries are not detected, Dynare will fallback on slower alternatives written in M-files (which exist for some of the libraries), @@ -108,9 +108,11 @@ and display the following: [m] Sylvester equation solution. [m] Kronecker products. [m] Sparse kronecker products. + [m] Local state space iteration (second order). [no] Bytecode evaluation. [no] k-order perturbation solver. [no] k-order solution simulation. + [no] Quasi Monte-Carlo sequence (Sobol). In this last case, Dynare will run correctly on the basic features, but with suboptimal speed, and some features will be missing. There -- GitLab