Thanks Sebastien,

the issue arose from a remark from Johannes that GSL was not included in dynare-mingw64-libs.zip

It then appeared that the directories in the zip file didn't match the organisation that we have for cross-compiling.

I think that we would need to spend some time to check, complete and maybe update the entire setup. But if there is no use for it, we are better removing the build on Windows information from the README.md

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Michel

Sébastien Villemot writes:

Dear all,

I haven't compiled Dynare on Windows so I may be wrong, but my impression is that supporting compilation from Cygwin using MinGW is almost the same as supporting cross-compilation from Linux using MinGW. So I don't think you will gain much from that move. But if really nobody ever tests the compilation from Cygwin, then it's indeed better not to claim that this platform is supported.

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Le samedi 23 mai 2015 17:48:10 EEST, Michel Juillard a écrit :

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Dear Johannes,

we are thinking of discontinuing the support for building Dynare on a Windows plateform. Building via cross-compiling in Linux has been working well for several years now and, as far as I know, you are the only person who expressed interest in building Dynare directly in Windows.

We would of course continue to assist you if you want to maintain a building chain in Windows but we would remove the Windows building instruction from the Wiki as well as the two zip files with MINGW libraries for this. We would in particular find the solution for the GSL library that suits you best.

What do you think? Sebastien may also have an opinion on this topic.

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