Missing installation package

Installation and Setup
1

Hi all,
When running a model my dynare computes a few errors. It has this warning message at the beginning:

‘warning: x13 binary is not available. If you are using under Windows or mac0s, this probably means that you did not install the series toolbox through an official package’

I am using Dynare through homebrew as I have a mac0s system. Am I missing a package? I downloaded the package mentioned on the Dynare download page. Thanks!

2

Hi, this is mostly a harmless warning unless you rely on the functionality of x13 for dseries. So mostly, you can just ignore this.

Otherwise, you can compile x13as and put it into $HOME/.local/bin following the instructions outlined on Dynare’s GitLab.

3

Also, if you use our pkg from dynare.org instead of homebrew this will not happen, but I suspect you are using Octave instead of MATLAB, right?

4

Just for completeness, do the following in Terminal.app:

export BREWDIR=/usr/local # if you are on a Intel machine
export BREWDIR=/opt/homebrew # if you are on a Apple Silicon machine

mkdir $HOME/x13as
cd $HOME/x13as
curl -O https://www2.census.gov/software/x-13arima-seats/x13as/unix-linux/program-archives/x13as_asciisrc-v1-1-b61.tar.gz
tar xf x13as_asciisrc-v1-1-b61.tar.gz
sed -i '' 's/-static//g' makefile.gf
make -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu) -f makefile.gf FC=$BREWDIR/bin/gfortran LINKER=$BREWDIR/bin/gcc-14 FFLAGS="-O2 -std=legacy" LDFLAGS=-static-libgcc LIBS="$BREWDIR/lib/gcc/current/libgfortran.a /$BREWDIR/lib/gcc/current/libquadmath.a" PROGRAM=x13as

mkdir -p $HOME/.local/bin
cp x13as $HOME/.local/bin/x13as

Then run the following command in Octave or MATLAB:

system('which x13as')
% /Users/wmutschl/.local/bin/x13as

system('x13as')
% X-13ARIMA-SEATS Seasonal Adjustment Program
% Version Number 1.1 Build 61
% Execution began  Mar 28, 2025  08.59.12 
% 
% ERROR: Must specify either an input specification file name
%        (-i infile or infile) or an input metafile name (-m metafile).
%
%        See Section 2 of the X-13ARIMA-SEATS Reference Manual for more
%        information on how to run X-13ARIMA-SEATS.

This means that Octave or MATLAB can find x13as.