2015-09-12 Build xgboost for Python 3.4ΒΆ

This is a process I followed to build xgboost 0.4 (which I also described at Building xgboost on Windows for Python). This is also what you should follow to get missing dependency such as vcomp110.dll (which comes from OpenMP in Visual C++). The following process is only available for Python 3.4 64 bit:

  • Install Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4. It has to be done to make Visual Studio Express 2010 build for x64. It must be done first if you have a more recent version of Visual Studio installed on the same machine.

  • Install Visual Studio Express (C++). The link points to an image .iso.

  • Install the Java JDK. Select the newest version.

  • Download xgboost.

  • Check OpenMD files are present in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC with files vcomp.lib, vcombd.lib, omp.h.

  • Open the solution in Windows directory (in xgboost) and update the path to point to Java JDK and OpenMP, build the version release/x64 (see this comment.

  • Go to the python folder and type python setup.py bdist_wheel to build the file .whl.

This wheel can be installed on any Python 3.4 64 bits installation. The first two steps might have to be done a second time to get vcomp110.dll. This library must be available in one the path in environment variable PATH or be in the same folder as python.exe.

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OpenMP is an API that supports multi-platform shared memory multiprocessing programming in C, C++, and Fortran (Wikipedia).