I’ve used the Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox under Win32, compiled in the Cygwin environment, as described in the documentation. However, for processing a large data set, I needed a 64bit build. As there is currently no 64bit version of Cygwin, I followed the approach described here, using MinGW-w64.
The current version of Cygwin includes MinGW-w64, as well as an appropriate build of pthreads (if needed: compile pthreads as described here).
To configure, pass the MinGW-w64 to the script:
--cc=/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc --cflags=-m64 --cxx=/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc --cxxflags=-m64
Note: the path needs to be included due to a bug in MinGW-w64, as described on the MinGW-w64 site:
The mingw-w64 toolchain has been officially added to Cygwin mirrors, you can find the basic C toolchain as mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core. The languages enabled are C, Ada, C++, Fortran, Object C and Objective C++. There is a known caveat where calling the compiler directly as “/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc” will fail, use “/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc” instead and make sure that your PATH variable has “/usr/bin” before “/bin”.
In addition, we add the following libraries to the linker:
-lstdc++ -lmsvcrt -lpthread
As MinGW-w64 has WIN32 defined (in contrast to GCC under Cygwin), there are a number of issues in the Shogun code that need to be fixed (see patch).
Currently, the following issues in the code are still unresolved:
- only command line static interface is supported
- MemoryMappedFile is not implemented (needs reimplementation based on Win API
After the Shogun library is built, ranlib needs to be run before building the command line interface:
/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ranlib shogun/libshogun.a
The resulting command line application needs the MinGW DLLs in the path. It also has the following limitations:
- some strange characters in console (instead of colors)
- issues with locale setting in when serialising/parsing files
- applications exists on exceptions from SG_ERROR
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I failed to install shogun on latest version Cygwin on Win-32.
dealing with the python_modular, as described in the documentation
./configure –interfaces=python_modular
make
make DESTDIR= install (failed here)
errorlog as below:
Administrator@PC–20130406RRE ~/shogun/shogun-2.1.0/src
$ make DESTDIR= install
make -C shogun install
make[1]: 进入目录“/home/Administrator/shogun/shogun-2.1.0/src/shogun”
install -d -m755 /usr/local/lib
install -d -m755 “/usr/local/include/shogun”
install -m755 libshogun-13.0.dll /usr/local/lib
install -m755 libshogun.a /usr/local/lib
find ./ -mindepth 1 -type d ! \( -path ‘*.git*’ -o \
-path ‘*interface*’ -o -path ‘*doxygen*’ -o -path ‘*tapkee*’ \)\
-exec install -d -m755 “/usr/local/include/shogun/”\{\} \;
find ./ -mindepth 1 -type d ! \( -path ‘*.git*’ -o -path ‘*wrap*’ -o \
-name ‘*optimization’ -o -name ‘*transfer’ -o -path ‘*tapkee*’ -o -path ‘*doxygen*’ \) \
-exec sh -c “install -m644 {}/*.h /usr/local/include/shogun/{}” \;
install: 无法获取”./.settings/*.h” 的文件状态(stat): No such file or directory
rm -f /usr/local/lib/libshogun.dll /usr/local/lib/libshogun-13.dll
cd /usr/local/lib && ( ln -s libshogun-13.0.dll libshogun.dll; \
ln -s libshogun-13.0.dll libshogun-13.dll )
ldconfig >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
make[1]: 离开目录“/home/Administrator/shogun/shogun-2.1.0/src/shogun”
make -C interfaces/python_modular install-python_modular && true
make[1]: 进入目录“/home/Administrator/shogun/shogun-2.1.0/src/interfaces/python_modular”
install -d -m755 “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/shogun”
install -m644 “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages”
install: 在”/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages” 后缺少了要操作的目标文件
请尝试执行”install –help”来获取更多信息。
Makefile:265: recipe for target `install-python_modular’ failed
make[1]: *** [install-python_modular] Error 1
make[1]: 离开目录“/home/Administrator/shogun/shogun-2.1.0/src/interfaces/python_modular”
Makefile:56: recipe for target `install’ failed
make: *** [install] Error 2
puzzled indeed………
By: Jiuding on April 12, 2013
at 3:15 am
I’m trying to install / run whatever the word is for shogun… I’m using windows 8.1.
I tried almost everyting,,
cygwin64 > failed
VMware + Ubuntu 14.04 TS > failed, trying to install a compiler, not sure if it will work..
I guess shogun is built for not using. I couldn’t find anybody who was able to use it.
By: TOEFL-Speaking.com on November 10, 2014
at 12:25 pm
I want to compile shogun for windows 32bit, but cygwin also get me error *recipe for target “all” failed*.
I see that you have already compiled SHOGUN on win32…
can you give me some guide how to install it ?
or can you get me already compiled binaries ?
my mai: tvix_8@mail.rul
By: Pepslee on August 18, 2015
at 12:29 pm
What I describe is crosscompiling for Win64. In the Shogun FAQ you find some hints, that some modules will not compile under Cygwin, so you should exclude them when building.
By: wbailer on August 22, 2015
at 10:40 am
How to use the Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox under Win32, compiled in the Cygwin ?
if i use the MinGW32 compiler, it dont work, if i use cigwins compiler – it works, but only with console application, and i wont to use GUI.
By: Pepslee on September 7, 2015
at 9:58 am
Shogun does not have it’s own GUI, see how to build the interface for eg MATLAB or Octave to use a GUI.
By: wbailer on September 7, 2015
at 6:46 pm