Xgboost: Should I MAKE dmlc-core first? Or directly MAKE xgboost? Window7 + mingw64

[Pantrick]

Now I have some problems in compiling xgboost in windows7 + mingw64 environment.
I've referred two install tutorial.
The official tutorial tells me to MAKE xgboost directly. Then there are some problems.
I followed these process.

git submodule init
git submodule update
alias make='mingw32-make'
cp make/mingw64.mk config.mk
make -j4

The logfile is as follow.

g++ -m64 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude -DDMLC_ENABLE_STD_THREAD=0  -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fopenmp -MM -MT build/c_api/c_api_error.o src/c_api/c_api_error.cc >build/c_api/c_api_error.d
g++ -m64 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude -DDMLC_ENABLE_STD_THREAD=0  -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fopenmp -MM -MT build/data/simple_dmatrix.o src/data/simple_dmatrix.cc >build/data/simple_dmatrix.d
g++ -m64 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude -DDMLC_ENABLE_STD_THREAD=0  -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fopenmp -MM -MT build/c_api/c_api.o src/c_api/c_api.cc >build/c_api/c_api.d
g++ -m64 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude -DDMLC_ENABLE_STD_THREAD=0  -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fopenmp -MM -MT build/data/sparse_page_raw_format.o src/data/sparse_page_raw_format.cc >build/data/sparse_page_raw_format.d
g++ -m64 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude -DDMLC_ENABLE_STD_THREAD=0  -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fopenmp -c src/c_api/c_api_error.cc -o build/c_api/c_api_error.o
g++ -m64 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude -DDMLC_ENABLE_STD_THREAD=0  -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fopenmp -c src/data/sparse_page_raw_format.cc -o build/data/sparse_page_raw_format.o
g++ -m64 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude -DDMLC_ENABLE_STD_THREAD=0  -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fopenmp -c src/c_api/c_api.cc -o build/c_api/c_api.o
g++ -m64 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude -DDMLC_ENABLE_STD_THREAD=0  -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fopenmp -c src/data/simple_dmatrix.cc -o build/data/simple_dmatrix.o
Makefile:97: recipe for target 'build/c_api/c_api_error.o' failed
Makefile:97: recipe for target 'build/data/sparse_page_raw_format.o' failed
Makefile:97: recipe for target 'build/data/simple_dmatrix.o' failed
Makefile:97: recipe for target 'build/c_api/c_api.o' failed

The screenshot is as follow.

Then I referred another Installing XGBoost For Anaconda on Windows
It tells me to MAKE dmlc-core first.
I followed these process.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost
cd xgboost
git submodule init
git submodule update
alias make='mingw32-make'
cd dmlc-core
make -j4

Then it still had some problems.
The logfile is as follow.

g++ -c -O3 -Wall -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Iinclude  -std=c++0x -fopenmp -fPIC -DDMLC_USE_HDFS=0 -DDMLC_USE_S3=0 -DDMLC_USE_AZURE=0 -o io.o src/io.cc
g++ -c -O3 -Wall -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Iinclude  -std=c++0x -fopenmp -fPIC -DDMLC_USE_HDFS=0 -DDMLC_USE_S3=0 -DDMLC_USE_AZURE=0 -o data.o src/data.cc
g++ -c -O3 -Wall -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Iinclude  -std=c++0x -fopenmp -fPIC -DDMLC_USE_HDFS=0 -DDMLC_USE_S3=0 -DDMLC_USE_AZURE=0 -o recordio.o src/recordio.cc
g++ -c -O3 -Wall -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Iinclude  -std=c++0x -fopenmp -fPIC -DDMLC_USE_HDFS=0 -DDMLC_USE_S3=0 -DDMLC_USE_AZURE=0 -o config.o src/config.cc
Makefile:75: recipe for target 'recordio.o' failed
Makefile:75: recipe for target 'io.o' failed
Makefile:75: recipe for target 'data.o' failed

The screenshot is as follow.

Could someone tell me how to fix these problems/errors?
Since the directory /windows has been deleted. How to install xgboost on windows with mingw64?

[Pantrick]

Hi everyone,
I'm who raised this question.
I referred the third tutorial Install xgboost in windows X64 (in chinese)
I followed these process

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost
cd xgboost
git checkout 9a48a40
git submodule init
git submodule update

Then I succeeded.
This code is the key to success.

git checkout 9a48a40

Could someone tell me the function of this code? Why it works?

[thirdwing]

The reason is from MinGW and different distributions of MinGW might be inconsistent.

I will update the building instructions after some more testing.