Does not work

[johnphill]

I appreciate your effort in making the source code available so others can learn, verify and expand on your work. But I've spent more than 40 hours trying to make it work in windows 10 until I realised I had to change platforms. Then I've spent another +60 hours in a fresh installation of Ubuntu 18, that otherwise I would have never installed, and in the end I only get hundreds of compilation errors of all sorts. This is a complete nightmare to compile and run.

What prevents you from providing a pre-compiled version for Windows and/or Linux, together with the source code (like most people do)? Why force us to download and install +15GB of libraries of dozens of different softwares from several contributors? It is very counterproductive to have us modify your source code so it works, or have us go through tricky installation procedures of unrelated software just to see if it works. It is not a good use of anyone's time when, in the end, we just want to see what it does, if it does it well enough and only then how it does it.

To anyone hoping to compile this, be warned, you need: Linux, git, gcc, python 2.7, pip, numpy, cython, tensorflow, tensorflow_gpu, CUDA, nvidia drivers, setproctitle, pyglib, scikit_image, pythong_gflags, python_magic, make, apt-get, TensorRT, apt-key, dozens of nvidia libraries, +100 c++ header files, photo package, and many others, easily in excess of 15GB...and most must be the correct deprecated versions that will conflict with each other, good luck.

[johnphill]

I finally got it up and running, I'm publishing an installation guide.