Torch7 ports (Was: Wxlua / Zbstudio)

[Raymond Cheung]

Hi all,

I tried the Jan's git ports. However, I got 21 errors out of 127 torch
tests. It said FFI can't point to some structures. Also, I can require nn
even it was installed via luarocks. It said the tester suite is missing.

Are the blas finding codes located at math/TH? Thanks.

Raymond
On Jun 24, 2016 17:12, "Raymond Cheung" <korekontakt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>