This section is used to compile and install the dependent libraries under windows system from source codes. The following instructions ONLY work for Visual Studio 2015 as previous VS does not support C++11 features well (including generic lambdas, auto, non-static data member initializers). If you intend to generate a 32-bit/64-bit singa solution, please configure all the VS projects for the dependent libraries as 32-bit/64-bit. This can be done by “Configuration Manager” in VS 2015 or use corresponding generator in cmake. When compiling the following libraries, you may get system-specific warnings/errors. Please fix them according to the prompts by VS.
The glog library is an optional library for singa project. But it is currently necessary for Window compilation. Since the latest release version of glog will encounter error C2084 on sprintf function under VS2015, we test the compilation and installation using the master branch from github.
Step 1: Download and decompress the source code. Or use git clone https://github.com/google/glog to get the code.
Step 2: Open “glog.sln” file under project folder. You will get a conversion dialog and please finish it by the prompts. Compile all the projects in the solution after proper configuration, especially “libglog” and “libglog_static” projects.
Step 3: Copy all the header files and the entire directory named “glog” under "src\windows" folder into the installation include folder (or system folder). Copy all the generated library files into the installation library folder (or system folder).
Step 4: Done.
Tested on version 2.6.1:
Step 1: Download and decompress the source code.
Step 2: Open “protobuf.sln” file under “vsprojects” folder. You will get a conversion dialog and please finish it by the prompts. Compile all the projects in the solution after proper configuration. Especially “libprotobuf”, “libprotobuf-lite”, “libprotoc” and “protoc” projects.
Step 3: Run “extract_includes.bat” script under “vsprojects” folder, you will get a new “include” folder with all the headers.
Step 4: Copy the library files, such as “libprotobuf.lib”, “libprotobuf-lite.lib”, “libprotoc.lib”, etc., into your installation library folder (or system folder). Copy the binary file “protoc” into your installation binary folder (or system folder). Copy all the headers and folders in “include” folder into your installation include folder (or system folder).
Step 5: Done.
There are ready-to-use binary packages online (link). However, we still install OpenBLAS with version 0.2.18 as test:
Step 1: Download and decompress the source code.
Step 2: Start a cmd window under the OpenBLAS folder then run the following commands to generate the solution:
$ md build $$ cd build $ cmake -G "Visual Studio 14" ..
Or run cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 Win64" as you wish.
Step 3: Install Perl into your system and put perl.exe on your path. Open “OpenBlas.sln” and build the solution, especially “libopenblas” project.
Step 4: Copy the library files under “build\lib” folder and all header files under OpenBLAS folder into installation library and include folders (or system folders).
Step 5: Done.
Error C2375 ‘snprintf’: redefinition; different linkage
Add “HAVE_SNPRINTF” to “C/C++ - Preprocessor - Preprocessor definitions”
Error due to hash map
Add “_SILENCE_STDEXT_HASH_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS” to Preprocessor Definitions.