I followed the directions and got stuck on OpenBLAS. Then I tried to just use MKL, but then mshadow build threw an error saying it required OpenBLAS. #11769 That whole part can really use some clarification.
On Sat, Aug 4, 2018, 05:21 Pedro Larroy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Qing > > The problem you are facing is while building opencv? > > We would need to automate dependency download and building as well as part > of an improved windows experience. Right now I only automated the build > steps assuming you have a working opencv and openblas build. This would be > the next step and if someone has cycles to contribute I would be happy to > review and assist. > > To summarize, yes the final goal is to have a fully automated setup that > requires one or at most a couple of commands / steps to get MXNet up and > running from sources in windows. If anyone is interested in helping with > this, let's coordinate here. > > Pedro > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 9:09 AM Qing Lan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just an update from previous thread. > > > > I tried Windows build using > > http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/install/windows_setup.html > instruction. > > The OpenCV links there only contains prebuilt vs12 (VS 2013). Apart from > > that, user need to create a new C++ project after VS2015 installation > > because it did not trigger the c compiler installation. I copied the > > command from Pedro's Python script and it improves a little. However, > even > > with these changes, I am still facing build failure. I think developers > may > > need some script to automate these process to build backend dependencies > on > > Windows. Do we have them already? > > > > Thanks, > > Qing > > > > On 8/2/18, 10:10 AM, "Qing Lan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Pedro, > > > > Great works! Thanks for supporting Windows build in here. > > > > Thanks, > > Qing > > > > On 8/2/18, 10:08 AM, "Marco de Abreu" <[email protected] > .INVALID> > > wrote: > > > > Hello Pedro, > > > > These are great efforts! It's great to see that we are improving > > our > > situation around Windows. > > > > Looking forward to using it. > > > > Best regards, > > Marco > > > > Pedro Larroy <[email protected]> schrieb am Do., 2. > > Aug. 2018, > > 19:04: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I have taken some effort to cleanup the Windows build process > > and condense > > > it in a single python script, provided that the required > > dependencies are > > > installed (opencv, openblas and cuda/cudnn in gpu). > > > > > > Now there's a single command necessary to get a build: > > > > > > python ci\build_windows.py > > > > > > The build flavour can be given with the '-f' argument. > > > > > > This produces a windows_package.7z file with MXNet libraries, > > python > > > bindings and includes. > > > > > > For testing, just running a powershell script like: > > > > > > ci/windows/test_py3_cpu.ps1 > > > > > > Will execute the unit tests. > > > > > > Let me know what you think. I pretty much would like to see > > these changes > > > in the release branch which will help with any windows issues > > that we might > > > find. > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/11947 > > > > > > Simple installation of dependencies and update to the > > documentation about > > > windows builds from source will come in the future. > > > > > > Pedro. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
