Torch7 ports (Was: Wxlua / Zbstudio)

[Raymond Cheung]

Hi Jan and Torsten,

Thanks a lot for your help.

I will try it later after taking a break. As I lack knowledge on C/C++, I
spent a month to retry many ways on FreeBSD 10/11. I feel tried.
Fortunately, I got some clues.

During this month, I also learnt a lot on FreeBSD. As least I can build and
install new world/kernel from GhostBSD 10.3 to 11 Alpha 4.

Thanks again for your help.

Raymond
On Jun 24, 2016 06:41, "Jan Beich" <jbeich at vfemail.net> wrote:

> Torsten Zuehlsdorff <tz at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>
> > Hello Raymond,
> >
> >> OpenBlas (make config; # with OpenMP option), OpenMP, Lapack & ++,
> GotoBlas
> >> are installed. Header files of OpenBlas is also included to
> >> $CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH. However, I still got the same error message,
> missing
> >> lapack.
> >
> > There are various variables to set to specify where to look vor the
> > libs, like lapack.
> >
> > Sadly i'm out of time. Tomorrow i'm heading into vacation. When back i
> > will come back to your request and try to create a port for
> > this. Maybe we could success together (with more time).
>
> I did some work in the past on Torch7 ports before losing interest[1].
> Check math/TH if you want to see how it detects OpenBLAS (default).
>
>   $ git clone https://github.com/jbeich/freebsd-ports torch-ports
>   $ export PORTSDIR=$PWD/torch-ports
>   $ cd $PORTSDIR/devel/lua-trepl
>   $ make install
>   $ th51
>
> --
> [1] Many Torch pkgs rely on luarocks to build and resolve dependencies
>     and some have a hard dependency on luajit. My approach didn't scale
>     as writing such ports often required translating *.rockspec files
>     which can quickly grow into maintenance nightmare, so an infra work
>     had to be done beforehand.
>