Windows Support

[synapticarbors]

It looks like xgboost supports windows:

https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build.html#building-on-windows

It would be nice to have a package built for windows even though one is available on defaults. It might be worth downloading the tarball from anaconda.org and looking at the recipe that's included for guidance:

https://anaconda.org/anaconda/py-xgboost/files

[beckermr]

Yeah def! I have been waiting for them to release a new package before working more on this. It has been almost a year since they put anything out. ☹️

[beckermr]

"This" being this recipe in general. Multithreading is also not supported on OSX.

[synapticarbors]

Ok, great. I've just been looking at the feedstock as I try to put together a recipe for LightGBM (conda-forge/staged-recipes#3257). The docs for that package says it requires openmp explicitly, so I'm waiting on the PR that fixes that too.

[beckermr]

Cool. You can check out my open PR for getting openmp to work on a mac. Maybe this will help with LightGBM? You can use the conda gcc and libgcc packages. For xgboost I had to patch the makefiles more.

[jakirkham]

Now that we are building with CMake ( #28 ), maybe this is more approachable?

[jakirkham]

Done in PR ( #60 )