chat.exe starts a blank terminal then shuts itself off on win11

[pxc3113]

My OS is windows 11. I downloaded the bin file and put it in alpaca-win folder but chat.exe starts a blank terminal then shuts itself off. Then I tried building from source but cmake tells me there are a bunch of grammar errors and chat.exe is not generated in the Release folder.

[fancellu]

This works

https://github.com/SiemensSchuckert/alpaca.cpp

[aka4el]

You can do everything from start to finish in visual studio.
Visual Studio 2022 community ~ 10 gb selecting these modules to download and install - desktop development tools (default selection) python development (default selection+live share) node.js development (default selection) linux and embedded development with c++ (default selection)

in the future, visual studio is not needed to start the chat. can work in any console (for example, cmd or powershell)

[Spacer-1970]

I also have this same issue. I followed the steps above with visual studio but running the chat.exe command still doesnt work and when you go into debug mode, it says that there is a symbol file not loaded for chat.exe.

[betolley]

I eddited the makefile. My cpu supports avx but not avx2. I changed it to build avx in the makefile.