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diff --git a/README.windows.txt b/README.windows.txt index 8c158777..4d3cf25e 100644 --- a/README.windows.txt +++ b/README.windows.txt @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ You need Visual Studio 2010 (k) Run "b2 --prefix=c:\boost\x86 --build-dir=x86 --toolset=msvc install --with-program_options" (I add " -j 16" to the end to run up to 16 procs at once.) (l) Run "b2 --prefix=c:\boost\x64 --build-dir=x64 --toolset=msvc address-model=64 install --with-program_options" -f you have multiple Visual Studios installed (vs2012 and vs2010) explicitly specify the toolset version +if you have multiple Visual Studios installed (vs2012 and vs2010) explicitly specify the toolset version toolset=msvc-10.0 @@ -142,3 +142,217 @@ ns)</PreprocessorDefinitions> %ROOT%\vowpal_wabbit\vowpalwabbit\x64\Release\vw.exe +************************************************************************************************************** +************************************************************************************************************** +************************************************************************************************************** +Notes for building VW under Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 8.1 +Nick Nussbaum nickn@seanet.com +8/13/2014 + +************************************************************************************************************** +(1) Get Tools +You'll need a Visual Studio 2013 installed that includes c# and c++ +You'll also need the Windows SDK which you can download from Microsoft at + http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/bg162891.aspx + + +Several patches are needed for boost and zlib to make them compile. +There also some changes to vowpal wabbit Details are at the last section of this file + +If you're going to use the patches I've made it's handy to have a bash shell to run patch +You can use a git bash shell fron the https://windows.github.com/ if you don't have it already. +Or you can just edit the changes using notepad to read the files. Git Patching seemed to have some problems with the files. + +************************************************************************************************************** +(2) make various command shells + + (a) Open an x86 command shell: run the Visual Studio 2013 Tools / VS2013 x86 Native Tools Command Prompt + or run: cmd.exe /k "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 + (b) Open an x64 command shell: run the Visual Studio 2013 Tools / VS2013 x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt + or run: cmd.exe /k "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86_amd64 + (c) Open the Git bash shell "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i + or some other bash shell + +************************************************************************************************************** +(3) Setup Directories + +To avoid conflicts with other projects using older version of boost I use a new directory for boost inside the project +If you want to use c:\boost then you'll have to modify the proj files to change the boost variable definitions. +I reccommend waiting untill there is an unpatched tested boost version that works + +I use c:\src\vw as my %ROOT% directory; You could use another directory +boost, vowpal_wabbit, and zlib-1.2.8 are directories inside that directory + + (a) mkdir c:\src + (b) mkdir c:\src\vw + (d) mkdir c:\src\vw\boost + (d) mkdir c:\src\vw\zlib-1.2.8 + +************************************************************************************************************** +(4) Get Vowpal Wabbit + + (a) In a command chell to %ROOT% : "cd c:\src\vw" + (b) run "git clone https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit.git" + details of the changes are in bottom of this file. + +************************************************************************************************************** +(5) Build Zlib with Visual Studio 2013 + + (a)Get the zlib 1.28.0 file from http://zlib.net/zlib128.zip + (b) unzip zlib-1.2.8.zip into the c:\src\vw\zlib-1.2.8 + + use contrib/vstudio/vc11 since there is no contrib/vstudio/vc12 as yet + + + (c) from a bash shell cd /c/src/vw + + patch --dry-run -po --directory=zlib-1.2.8 --input=../vowpal_wabbit/zlibpatch.txt + check output looks good then + patch -po --directory=zlib-1.2.8 --input=../vowpal_wabbit/zlibpatch.txt + + (d) Build the zlib libararies using by either of + + Launch Visual Studio 2013 + Open the solution %ROOT%/zlib-1.2.8\contrib\vstudio\vc11\zlibvc.sln + Batch build the configurations you want of x86 and x64 debut and release + + (e) or from your Visual Studio Command shell run the following four commands (can skip the last two if you only want 32bit binaries) + + "msbuild /p:Configuration=Debug;Platform=Win32 zlibstat.vcxproj" + "msbuild /p:Configuration=Release;Platform=Win32 zlibvc.vcxproj" + "msbuild /p:Configuration=Release;Platform=Win32 zlibstat.vcxproj" + "msbuild /p:Configuration=Debug;Platform=x64 zlibstat.vcxproj" + "msbuild /p:Configuration=Release;Platform=x64 zlibvc.vcxproj" + "msbuild /p:Configuration=Release;Platform=x64 zlibstat.vcxproj" + + Ignore the warnings about Platform 'Itanium' referenced in the project file since Itanium is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2013 + +************************************************************************************************************** +(6) Building Boost + + (a) Download boost_1_55_0.zip from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.50.0/ + (b) Unzip to %ROOT%/boost_1_55_0 + (c) Rename %ROOT%/boost_1_55_0 to %ROOT%/boost e.g. c:\src\vw\boost\ + + + (d) go to a git bash shell + (e)cd /c/src/vw + + (f) patch --dry-run -po --directory=boost --input=../vowpal_wabbit/boostpatch.txt + check output looks good then + (g) patch -po --directory=boost --input=../vowpal_wabbit/boostpatch.txt + + (h) go to the x86 Windows command shell + (i) cd c:\src\vw\boost + (j) Run "mkdir x64" + + (k) run "bootstrap.bat" + (j) bootstrap.bat + (k) Run "b2 --prefix=c:\src\vw\boost\x86 --build-dir=x86 --toolset=msvc-12.0 install --with-program_options" (You can add " -j 16" to the end to run up to 16 procs at once.) + + + (l)go to x64 Windows command shell + (m) cd c:\src\vw\boost + (n) Run "mkdir x64" + (o) cd c:\src\vw\boost + (p) bootstrap.bat + (q) Run "b2 --prefix=c:\src\vw\boost\x64 --build-dir=x64 --toolset=msvc-12.0 address-model=64 install --with-program_options" + + +************************************************************************************************************** +(7) Build Vowpal Wabbit + + + Open %ROOT%\vowpal_wabbit\vowpalwabbit\vw.sln in Visual Studio 2010 and run rebuild or batch build + + Binaries will be in one of these four directories, based on whether you built DEBUG or RELEASE bits and whether you are building x64 or Win32. + + %ROOT%\vowpal_wabbit\vowpalwabbit\Debug\vw.exe + %ROOT%\vowpal_wabbit\vowpalwabbit\Release\vw.exe + %ROOT%\vowpal_wabbit\vowpalwabbit\x64\Debug\vw.exe + %ROOT%\vowpal_wabbit\vowpalwabbit\x64\Release\vw.exe + +************************************************************************************************************** +(8) Test + There's a new test batch file that runs a quick test on all four configutations + (a) go to a windows command shell + (a) cd c:\src\vw\test + (b) run test\test_2_winvw.bat + + +************************************************************************************************************** +(9) Appendix The Gory Details of the patches and VW upgrades + +(a) misc files + adds this content to Windows.ReadMee + adds the file vowpal_wabbit\boostpatch.txt + adds the file vowpal_wabbit\zlibpatch.txt + adds the file test\test_2_winvw.bat a simple test of x86 and x64 training and prediction + + +(b) Changes to Zlib +This Zlib patch includes the following fixes; + +Convert to VS2013 solution + +The fix in the prior section to correctly use DLL versions of the runtime for 32bit platforms +Changes to use only two fields in zlibvc.def VERSTION +- VERSION 1.2.8 ++ VERSION 1.28 +since otherwise the compiler will complain about more than 2 fields and ignore them. + +add /safeseh to the x86 assembler so Visual Studio will not generate an error "unable to generate SAFESSH image" +This is not need for x64 since it happens by default + + +In the properties sheet for zlibvc + +The pre build command line for x64 release should be fixed +-cd ..\..\contrib\masmx64 ++cd ..\..\masmx64 + + Code generation: Runtime Library for windows release set to Multi-threaded DLL (/MD) not /MT for zlibvc and zlibstat +Otherwise VS13 will complain about multiple runtime specifications. + + +(c) Changes to Boost + It deals with serialization compilation problems based on + http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2629421/how-to-use-boost-in-visual-studio-2010/2641513#2641513 + Include file changes. + Some other errors as described in https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1499 fix + All the projects (except MPI and Python which I don't have installed) seem to compile. + There has been no testing except for the program options module which is used in Vowpal Wabbit + + +(d) Changes to VowpalWabbit + + changes vw projects and soluations to run under VS2013 rather than Visual Studio 2012 + change vw projects to define $(BoostIncludeDir) ..\..\boost\x64\include\boost-1_55 and ..\..\boost\x86\include\boost-1_55< + change vw projects to define $(BoostLibDir) ..\..\boost\x64\include\boost-1_55 and ..\..\boost\x86\include\boost-1_55 + + vowpalwabbit/vw_static.vcxproj + Define $(IncludePath) + change $(ZlibDir) to use \contrib\vstudio\vc11 rather than vc10 + change x64 version DebugInformationFormat to use "ProgramDatabase" and not the invalid "EditAndContinue" + + change IntermediateFolderPath to include ProjectName so two projects aren't trying to build in the same folder + add searn_multiclasstask.cc to the project + change include path to all use macros $(VC_IncludePath);$(WindowsSDK_IncludePath) + change additional dependencies to use $(SolutionDir)$(PlatformShortName)\$(Configuration)\vw_static.lib + + adds a reference to the WindowsSDKDir Include\um + change vw_static properties for debug 64bit to /Zi from /Zl to shut up some warnings. + change the vw and static_vw to use n intermediate directoryies that appends the $(ProjectName). + this avoid various conflicts and warnings caused by dumping into the same directory. + change link build copies to use PlatformShortName rather than PlatformName to avoid Win32 in favor of x86 + + + vowpalwabbit/vw.sln + change configurations to use Debug|x86 from Debug|AnyCpu + + c_test/c_test.vcxproj + change to VS 12 + change configurations to use Debug|x86 from Debug|AnyCpu + change cs_test to use x86 and x64 rather than anycpue + + |