[mlpack] Windows binary and building system

[Qiang Kou]

Hi, Ryan,

I have really little experience with Visual Studio. Using MinGW is much
easier for me since it is still gcc.

Best,

KK

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Ryan Curtin <gth671b at mail.gatech.edu>
wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 07:08:24PM -0500, Qiang Kou wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > Right now I am using MLPACK in a project I have to guarantee it can run
> > well on Windows.
> >
> > As many people know, building MLPACK on Windows is not as easy as on
> Linux.
> >
> > You can download all the executable files from [1]. They are built on a
> > Windows server using MinGW and should run well on a 64-bit Windows
> without
> > any developing environment. The building server is set up using an AWS
> free
> > tier machine. You can access it by 54.86.236.238, and the password
> > is YMc$2A5&Gp.
> >
> > I want to know how many people really need to build MLPACK on Windows.
> >
> > If there is a real need, maybe we can change this server into an
> automated
> > building system.
>
> KK,
>
> You're awesome!  I have two Windows build servers I try to keep up to
> date, but I've had so much trouble compiling with VS2013 that I haven't
> even tried to set up some way to package builds automatically.
>
> Maybe we can work together to figure out how to get this working
> automatically, and maybe MinGW is a better (or easier) solution than
> VS2013.  When I find some time (hopefully soon) I will start trying to
> set up the Windows build servers with MinGW.
>
> Given the posts on this list, I think there is definitely interest in
> precompiled mlpack for Windows. :)
>
> Ryan
>
> --
> Ryan Curtin    | "I'm just going to shoot you once!"
> ryan at ratml.org |   - Joseph Dunn
>



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