[mlpack] Potential GSOC student interested in contributing to ML pack

[Marcus Edel]

Hello Kumaranath,

just checked the appveyor (Windows CI) build and the
COMPILER_HAS_DEPRECATED_ATTR check failed there as well, but it continues
without any further issues, do you mind to remove and recreate the build folder
and send the console output of Step 4 (cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64"
...)?

Thanks,
Marcus

> On 28. Nov 2017, at 15:38, Ryan Curtin <ryan at ratml.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 09:11:10AM +0530, Kumaranath Fernando wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Thanks for your response, yes I created a simple Hello World  C++ console
>> application in Visual Studio 2015 and it worked fine!
>> However, I'm not too sure how I could check the c++ compiler version
>> though! Any help on this?
> 
> Hi Kumaranath,
> 
> If you're using Visual Studio 2015, then the compiler should be new
> enough.  You could check the exact version with something like what's
> suggested in this post:
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1233312/finding-version-of-microsoft-c-compiler-from-command-line-for-makefiles
> 
> However I'm not too sure of what the real problem is in your situation.
> The compiler seems to be installed and working, but for some reason
> CMake is not able to compile and run a simple C++ test program.  When
> you configure CMake, it builds a number of simple test programs to
> ensure that your compiler has all the necessary features.  But based on
> the log output you gave, one of these tests appears to be failing to
> compile for some reason.
> 
> It might be tricky, but I think the right approach might be to dig into
> the (long) CMake error log and try to reproduce the exact code that
> CMake is failing to compile during the configuration, and try to compile
> that code by hand (in the same way you compiled a simple Hello World
> example).  Unfortunately past that I'm not sure I can give too much
> advice; I've never seen CMake fail to configure when the compiler is
> installed.
> 
> Another idea might be to try on a different system (maybe with a
> different OS like Linux or OS X)...
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ryan
> 
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