Execution error

Dynare help (legacy posts)
1

Hello,

Trying to figure out if I have the best version of Octave installed to run Dynare.

I have Octave 3.6.4 installed with Dynare 4.4.3. and when I try to run example1 from the install package I receive

[code]octave:3> dynare example1

Configuring Dynare …
error: caught execution error in library function
error: called from:
error: c:\dynare\4.4.3\matlab\dynare_config.m at line 230, column 10
error: c:\dynare\4.4.3\matlab\dynare.m at line 48, column 12[/code]

I’m completely new to this and don’t know how to fix it!

Thanks!

2

On the download page dynare.org/download/dynare-stable you can see that Dynare 4.4.3 works with Octave 3.8 for MinGW, which can also be downloaded from the Dynare web page dynare.org/download/octave/windows

3

Thanks Houtan.

I am able to have dynare run example1 now. Next, I am trying to run models from my professor from the Gali text book and I receive this error
"panic: Segmentation violation" and then octave shuts down.

Do you have any suggestions? Or are the models too large to run on Octave?

Thanks.

4

Please provide the .mod file you are trying to run as well as any data files so we can try to reproduce the error

5

Hi Houtan,

I have attached one of the .mod files I need to use for my assignment that causes Octave 3.8.1 to shut down when I try to run it.

Thanks.
gali_ch5_optpol_commitment.mod (1.2 KB)

6

The mod-file defines p, which has a unit root. The Octave mex-files seem unable to handle this. For now you can either remove the definition of p or the mex-files.