From 1aa5efcca6b79ef73e7447bd079cf6e43d5be207 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Villemot?= <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:48:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Ref. manual: list in a single place the MATLAB toolboxes and
Octave-Forge packages from which Dynare can benefit (manually cherry picked
from commit 564665da7c3a0f3270d4b994baefb1bb365ef1b9)
---
doc/dynare.texi | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/dynare.texi b/doc/dynare.texi
index 18a11c12a..98a877302 100644
--- a/doc/dynare.texi
+++ b/doc/dynare.texi
@@ -345,13 +345,12 @@ Packaged versions of Dynare are available for Windows XP/Vista/Seven,
Leopard. Dynare should work on other systems, but some compilation
steps are necessary in that case.
-In order to run Dynare, you need at least one of the following:
+In order to run Dynare, you need one of the following:
@itemize
@item
-MATLAB version 7.0 (R14) or above; note that no toolbox is needed by
-Dynare,
+MATLAB version 7.0 (R14) or above;
@item
GNU Octave version 3.0.0 or above.
@@ -360,6 +359,20 @@ GNU Octave version 3.0.0 or above.
Some installation instructions for GNU Octave can be found on the
@uref{http://www.dynare.org/DynareWiki/DynareOctave,Dynare Wiki}.
+The following optional extensions are also useful to benefit from extra
+features, but are in no way required:
+
+@itemize
+
+@item
+If under MATLAB: the optimization toolbox, the statistics toolbox;
+
+@item
+If under GNU Octave, the following
+@uref{http://octave.sourceforge.net/,Octave-Forge} package: optim.
+
+@end itemize
+
If you plan to use the @code{use_dll} option of the @code{model}
command, you will need to install the necessary requirements for
compiling MEX files on your machine. If you are using MATLAB under
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