compile on windows?

[BackT0TheFuture]

hi,there CLSTM is great , do you guys have some plan for windows support? cmake or MinGW thx!

[zuphilip]

This is IMO quite unrealistic at the moment, but you can try to work with docker. There is a Dockerfile of the project. (@kba is this still up-to-date?)

[stweil]

The current code uses functions like glob which are not available with Minw-w64. That code needs modifications to make it more portable if you want to support Windows hosts.

And of course you also need Eigen built for Windows.

[kba]

With this project essentially in maintenance mode (@tmbdev is developing a new LSTM/OCR project) I do not think a native windows port is worth the porting/testing effort. But if someone takes the initiative, I will support it.

As @zuphilip mentions, docker is an option, though not the Dockerfile bundled in the repository, which was for testing CUDA/GPU stuff and is outdated. I have an up-to-date Dockerfile for clstm somewhere, I'll post it when I find it. It's essentially executing the installation steps in the README.

[kba]

Here's the Dockerfile:

FROM ubuntu:16.04
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive

WORKDIR /tmp
RUN apt-get -y update
RUN apt-get -y install git scons libprotobuf-dev libprotobuf9v5 protobuf-compiler g++ libpng12-dev
RUN git clone --depth 1 --single-branch --branch 3.3-rc1 \
	  "https://github.com/RLovelett/eigen" /usr/local/include/eigen3
RUN git clone --depth 1 "https://github.com/tmbdev/clstm"

WORKDIR /tmp/clstm
RUN scons && scons all

[zuphilip]

Shouldn't we add this Dockerfile as well to the repo and maybe rename the current one?

[kba]

I have them both ("regular" and updated CUDA) in a separate folders. The CUDA deps pull in lots of GUI packages (>4GB image) and there's little benefit, so it's more for curiosity. I'll send a PR.

[BackT0TheFuture]

I see . thanks