eric-haibin-lin closed pull request #12592: update docs to list cmake required for build from source page URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12592
This is a PR merged from a forked repository. As GitHub hides the original diff on merge, it is displayed below for the sake of provenance: As this is a foreign pull request (from a fork), the diff is supplied below (as it won't show otherwise due to GitHub magic): diff --git a/docs/install/build_from_source.md b/docs/install/build_from_source.md index 4f0235fa926..eff66662ac3 100644 --- a/docs/install/build_from_source.md +++ b/docs/install/build_from_source.md @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ This document explains how to build MXNet from source code. Building MXNet from You need C++ build tools and a BLAS library to build the MXNet shared library. If you want to run MXNet with GPUs, you will need to install [NVDIA CUDA and cuDNN](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads) first. +You may use [GNU Make](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/) to build the library but [cmake](https://cmake.org/) is required when building with MKLDNN + ### C++ build tools @@ -25,7 +27,7 @@ You need C++ build tools and a BLAS library to build the MXNet shared library. I 2. [Git](https://git-scm.com/downloads) for downloading the sources from Github repository. -3. [cmake](https://cmake.org/) is recommended. You may also use [GNU Make](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/) to build the library. + ### BLAS library @@ -80,7 +82,7 @@ There is a configuration file for make, ## Build Configurations -`cmake` is recommended for building MXNet, however you may use `make` instead. +`cmake` is recommended for building MXNet (and is required to build with MKLDNN), however you may use `make` instead. ### Math Library Selection ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] With regards, Apache Git Services
