dynare++ in windows 7

[ian_db]

I'm trying to run dynare++ in windows 7. I use the first example from the dynare++ tutorial as my .mod file. Whenever I invoke dynare++, the command prompt replies "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information."

What can I do to fix this?

[SébastienVillemot]

Well that looks like a low-level technical problem. The dynare++ binary has been tested under Window XP, but not Windows 7.

Maybe you could try to run the binary in "Windows XP compatibility mode" (or something like that) ?

Best

[SébastienVillemot]

Ok this is not a Windows 7 specific issue, but a more general Windows issue.

On my Windows XP, I can run some test MOD files (example1.mod, judd.mod), but others fail with the same error than you (test.mod, test3.mod...).

Under Linux everything works fine.

I am going to debug this

[ian_db]

any news on this?

[SébastienVillemot]

I found the culprit: it is the compiler we used for compiling Dynare++ binary under Windows (the one shipped with Octave 3.2.3).

The solution is to use a recent MinGW compiler, from http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/ , using SJLJ exceptions handling (not Dwarf-2).

I'll do that when we release Dynare 4.1.1. I can't promise you any delay. If you need it urgently, please recompile it by yourself.

Best

[ian_db]

great, thanks for looking into that.

[SébastienVillemot]

For your information, the Windows binary snapshot of Dynare unstable version now contains a recompiled version of Dynare++, starting from 2010-03-11.

See:
http://www.dynare.org/download/dynare-u ... y-snapshot