I have been beating my head repeatedly on my desk for a week trying to install Julia from source on my Windows machine. I know that Windows stinks, but its a work computer and I have to make do with what I got. I have Intel’s Parallel Studio XE installed so I am trying to utilize Intel’s Math Kernal Library. Also, I have the CUDA GPU toolkit that I would like to exploit in my work. I have followed the manual for installing Julia from source (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia) as well as the platform specific instructions (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/README.windows.md), but I keep getting errors.
For the Intel MKL, I modified my Make.user file as such:
XC_HOST = x86_64-w64-mingw32
USEICC = 0
USEIFC = 0
USE_INTEL_MKL = 1
USE_INTEL_FFT = 1
USE_INTEL_LIBM = 1
USE_INTEL_JITEVENTS = 1
When I toggle the Intel compilers on, then I get an error (icc: command not found) using cygwin64. I did the best googling I could, but just got pages about setting the Intel environment variables. The documentation for setting these in Windows in sparse and I felt that I did so, but I could be horribly wrong. If I toggled the Intel compilers off I get the following error:
make[5]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/users/JMB/julia/deps/scratch/SuiteSparse-4.4.5/SPQR/Lib'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/users/JMB/julia/deps/scratch/SuiteSparse-4.4.5/SPQR'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/users/JMB/julia/deps/scratch/SuiteSparse-4.4.5'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.4.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: cannot find -lmkl_rt
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.4.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: cannot find -lmkl_rt
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [/cygdrive/c/users/JMB/julia/deps/suitesparse.mk:54: /cygdrive/c/users/JMB/julia/usr/manifest/suitesparse] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/users/JMB/julia/deps'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:81: julia-deps] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/users/JMB/julia'
make: *** [Makefile:57: /cygdrive/c/users/JMB/julia/doc/_build/html/en/index.html] Error 2
As for the CUDA GPU toolkit, I was using the standard Windows binaries and trying to use the various CUDA packages available, but was told that I needed an updated version of LLVM and recommended that I build Julia from source with an updated LLVM which started this whole process. So I added a toggle in my Make.user file for
XC_HOST = x86_64-w64-mingw32
USE_SYSTEM_LLVM = 1
CMakeFiles/libssh2.dir/objects.a(misc.c.obj):misc.c:(.text+0x156): undefined reference to __imp_recv' CMakeFiles/libssh2.dir/objects.a(misc.c.obj):misc.c:(.text+0x172): undefined reference to __imp_WSAGetLastError’
CMakeFiles/libssh2.dir/objects.a(misc.c.obj):misc.c:(.text+0x1b6): undefined reference to __imp_send' CMakeFiles/libssh2.dir/objects.a(misc.c.obj):misc.c:(.text+0x1d2): undefined reference to __imp_WSAGetLastError’
CMakeFiles/libssh2.dir/objects.a(session.c.obj):session.c:(.text+0x453): undefined reference to __imp_select' CMakeFiles/libssh2.dir/objects.a(session.c.obj):session.c:(.text+0x56d): undefined reference to __imp_getsockopt’
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[5]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/libssh2.dir/build.make:656: src/libssh2.dll] Error 1
make[4]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:86: src/CMakeFiles/libssh2.dir/all] Error 2
make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:98: src/CMakeFiles/libssh2.dir/rule] Error 2
make[2]: *** [Makefile:195: libssh2] Error 2
make[1]: *** [/cygdrive/c/users/JMB/julia/deps/libssh2.mk:44: scratch/libssh2-30e9c1347e3b8baa2951db612f05e6d87fc8e2f2/build-compiled] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:81: julia-deps] Error 2
At this point, I’m broken as a human and a researcher. There is little documentation for this and even fewer for Windows. Is there any recommendations to fix my errors or is this attempt on Windows a useless gesture? Sorry for the long post.
Thanks,
JMB