as you may know, there is a Windows installer for PyCUDA here:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#cython
Note that I have my own build of boost and PyCUDA, but I installed this
just to see if it would make distribution easier. There are two issues
I found with this ( note that I am on a 64-bit Windows XP installation).
The first is the following dependency check of the _driver.pyd file that
the installer provides:
---------------------------
Dependency Walker
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MSVCP90.DLL was not found.
Obviously, since I built my own PyCUDA and Boost libraries, I don't have
this problem in my _driver.pyd file. This problem basically made it
impossible for me to use the installer's version of PyCUDA.
The other issue is that the
http://wiki.tiker.net/PyCuda/Installation/Windows
encourages you to use the 1.38 boost libraries whereas the installer
above provides 1.41. I'm not sure the wiki is out of date, but I built
PyCUDA following the 1.38 instructions and everything works fine for me.
Interestingly, there are only two boost DLL's that the installer provides:
boost_python-vc90-mt-1_41.dll
boost_thread-vc90-mt-1_41.dll
Note that when you build the boost libraries, you wind up with
approximately 4 GB of files. I removed everything from stage/lib in my
own installation except
boost_thread-vc90-mt-1_38.dll
boost_python-vc90-mt-1_38.dll
and I'm able to run all of the examples and tests for PyCUDA. This is a
*massive* disk-space savings since now I only have two files instead of
4 GB worth of files.
Anyway, those are my comments. Your own mileage may vary. I hope you
Windows users out there found this useful.
Thanks again for all the great work with PyCUDA.
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