The MEX files are built out-of-tree (because we want to do them in parallel).
This would create a potential race condition if several builds want to create
the symlinks under mex/matlab/ or mex/octave/.
The solution is to disable those symlinks for out-of-tree builds.
The scripts are based the former “dynare-build” project. They have been
overhauled and simplified.
Building a Windows package (both installer and zip archive) is as easy as
running “make -C windows” (provided the right Debian packages are installed,
use the “windows/install-packages.sh” script for that purpose).
The layout of MEX files for Octave in the package has been
changed (mex/octave/win32/ and mex/octave/win64/ instead of mex/octave32/ and
mex/octave/), for consistency with MATLAB MEX.
It constructs the stacked residuals and jacobian of the perfect foresight
problem.
It is an almost perfect replacement for the perfect_foresight_problem.m
routine, while being much more efficient.
Note however that the DLL never return complex numbers (it instead puts NaNs at
the place where there would have been complex). This may create problems for
some MOD files; the algorithms will need to be adapted to use a more
line-search method.
On Windows, this means that a POSIX threads implementation is no longer needed,
since C++11 threads are implemented using native Windows threads.
On GNU/Linux and macOS, POSIX threads are still used under the hood.
A new m4 macro (AX_CXX11_THREAD) is used to add the proper compilation
flags (instead of AX_PTHREAD).
- no longer use OCTAVE_QUIT in MEX files; this seems now only possible in
oct-files. (Ref #304)
- do not build linsolve.oct on Octave >= 3.8, it is available natively.
- do not add strjoin.m to the patch on Octave >= 3.8, it is available natively.
- default_save_options has been renamed save_default_options.
With automake 1.14 there are a lot of new warnings related to the way we deal
with MEX files (they are compiled from source files located in a different
tree). Automake wants us to use the 'subdir-objects' option, but it breaks in
our case.
In automake 2.0, the 'subdir-objects' option will be activated by default, so
we will have to refactor the build system for MEX files. But for now we can
live with the automake warnings.
This reverts commit 7541bb52f5.
This commit was breaking compilation of MEX files: the subdir-objects option
does not deal well with source files that are under a distinct tree.
Houtan Bastani
Sébastien Villemot
Stéphane Adjemian (Charybdis)
Sébastien Villemot
Houtan Bastani