BuildDynarePreprocessor_jll

This repository is for testing and tracking changes in the recipe needed to build DynarePreprocessor_jll

When a new version is ready, copy build_tarballs.jl to Yggdrasil.jl/D/DynarePreprocessor in your own fork of Yggdrasil and open a PR

The current version uses https://git.dynare.org/Dynare/preprocessor#julia-6.4.0 as the upstream source. This is a fork of the master branch still using autoconf tools before the switch to meson build. There is also some changes to the C++ syntax necessary to allow compilation with the version of LLVM/clang used by BinaryBuilder.jl when building for MacOS or FreeBSD.

There are a few small differences in the logic of the code. Among them:

• improvements in the writing of modfile.json when the preprocessor is called with option language=julia
• relaxing the requirement that all endogenous variables appear in steady_state_model block so as to permit to communicate only a partial solution for the steady state

Running the build_tarballs.jl script

• Make sure that BinaryBuilder.jl is added to Julia default environment
• To (cross-)compile and build for a basic Linux installation on a x86_64 machine, run from the terminal command line

  julia --color=yes  build_tarballs.jl x86_64-linux-gnu --debug --verbose

• To cross-compile and build for a x86_64 MacOS installation, run from the terminal command line

  julia --color=yes  build_tarballs.jl x86_64-apple-darwin --debug --verbose

• To cross-compile and build for all plateforms supported by Julia, run from the terminal command line

  julia --color=yes  build_tarballs.jl --debug --verbose

Testing the artifact locally

See the BinaryBuilder documentation

Cleaning up

The above procedure creates the build and products directories that you can remove after having verified them if necessary.

Open issues:

• Finalize the transition to meson build. Solve the problem for MacOS. See branch meson.
• Rebase on current state of master branch
• See if some of the changes made for Julia should be ported to master.