Build windows installer package

[rcurtin]

Reported by speet3 on 8 Aug 2011
Either NSIS or MSI, NSIS has a nice linux compiler, and MSI is the Microsoft supported installer format. In either case, the result needs to be published, probably in a similar location to the source tarball.

[thirdwing]

Do you have the requirement for MSI or exe format? Maybe I can give a try this weekend.

[rcurtin]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 03:40:46PM -0800, Qiang Kou (KK) wrote:

Do you have the requirement for MSI or exe format? Maybe I can give a try this weekend.

Doesn't matter to me. The goal would just be a Windows installer of
some sort that installs the mlpack executables (allknn, emst, etc.) and
the headers to somewhere on the system. This will help a lot of people
who want to use mlpack on Windows. Let me know if I can help out or
throw any hardware at it or something. :)

Ryan Curtin | "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."
ryan@ratml.org | - Dr. Weir

[thirdwing]

OK. I will try this or next weekend. I have used Inno setup to package software several times before. There shouldn't be much problem.

[II-Matto]

I was wondering if there are windows installers now?

[thirdwing]

You can find an old version from https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/81699687/mlpack-setup-x86_64-1_0_12.exe

[II-Matto]

Many thanks! I just installed it, and found there is only *.a file. I guess this is compiled with mingw and cannot be used in visual studio?

[thirdwing]

Yes. This is compiled using MinGW-w64.

If you want to use it with VS, you probably need to compile it by yourself.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:44 AM, II-Matto notifications@github.com wrote:

Many thanks! I just installed it, and found there is only *.a file. I
guess this is compiled with mingw and cannot be used in visual studio?

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[II-Matto]

@thirdwing I just found the *.lib files which possibly can be used in visual studio. though they target only x86 platform. I will try to compile a x86 version with visual studio 2013.

[thirdwing]

Good luck! If you can compile and it works, you should share the project file and write down how to do it.

[II-Matto]

@thirdwing I have successfully build mlpack for x86 platform with Visual Studio 2013 and Intel C++ 15.0. I am preparing an article for it, and I will try to finish it within next week.

[II-Matto]

@thirdwing Somehow I made it to build mlpack for x64 platform with Visual Studio 2012 and Intel C++ 15.0. I will try to share the process and relevant files later. Too much work to do recently.

[rcurtin]

Finally closed after over seven years! Now that is a nice feeling. Thanks @gmanlan!