As expected, everything started working when I added boost_thread-vc90-mt-1_38.dll and boost_python-vc90-mt-1_38.dll to the system path and "set HOME=c:\home\fasiha" though '123456' works too :P I'll clean up the wiki :)
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Ahmed Fasih<[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, it turns out PyCUDA on Linux was such a bit hit that > some colleagues are asking for the same thing for their Windows boxes > also. I have made sure the NVIDIA CUDA SDK examples work and am > following the wiki installation for MSVC 9.0 with some trouble. > > I used the BoostPro 1.38 installer to install default variants for > Visual C++ 9.0 (Visual Studio 2008), with variants Multithread, DLL; > Multithread; Multithread, static runtime; and Single thread, static > runtime. I install the default components as well as Boost DateTime, > Boost Python, and Boost Threads, without which the installation of > PyCUDA won't happen. I've tried various other combinations of variants > and compilers but test_driver.py fails with the same error message: > > C:\home\fasiha\pycuda\test>python test_driver.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "test_driver.py", line 472, in <module> > import pycuda.autoinit > File > "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pycuda-0.94beta-py2.6-win32.egg\pycuda\autoinit.py", > line 1, in <module> > import pycuda.driver as cuda > File > "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pycuda-0.94beta-py2.6-win32.egg\pycuda\driver.py", > line 1, in <module> > from _driver import * > ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. > > I was slightly confused with the instruction to "set HOME=123456", I'm > not too familiar with Windows, so I tried that as well as "set > HOME=c:/home/fasiha" (and with backslashes), the same error. > > I'm also slightly confused by this sentence in the wiki: "To work with > pycuda You need to have Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (VS 8) included > in the PATH variable (for example c:\mvs8\vc\bin, where mvs8 - is your > vc8 installation part) (otherwise, CUDA complains about version 6 and > 7.1 !)" I assume that this is not a problem for me since PyCUDA > doesn't seem to complain about MSVC. > > I am so sorry to unload yet another plea for installation assistance, > I never ever thought I'd be installing it in Windows but I guess it's > a small price for success :) I'll keep trying some stuff and report > any further info. > > Thanks all, > Ahmed > _______________________________________________ PyCUDA mailing list [email protected] http://tiker.net/mailman/listinfo/pycuda_tiker.net
