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screechOwl
screechOwl

Reputation: 28159

Compile vowpal-wabbit in ubuntu for use in windows 7

I have a Windows 7 laptop with an Ubuntu 12.04 installation on the same machine.

I am trying to compile a program from source (VowPal Wabbit). I tried using Cygwin but had no luck getting it to work. I ended up installing Ubuntu 12.04 to get access to get a functioning compiler.

It worked on the Ubuntu side but I am curious if there is a way to bring the compiled files over to Windows as that's where I actually do most of my work. More specifically, will programs compiled in Ubuntu function on a Windows machine?

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 569

Answers (2)

arielf
arielf

Reputation: 5952

I realize it is almost a year later. Credit Chris Quirk, Nick Nussbaum and others, current versions of vowpal wabbit (7.x) should build and work fine on Windows. This reference should provide all the necessary details.

Edit: 2017-07-10: I should also note: the library and basic train and test from files functionality has been working on Windows for a while. However, not all the functionality supported in a native Linux environment is available on Windows. In particular, the --daemon option, network related features like spanning-tree (under the cluster directory), and some of the utilities under the util directory have not been fully ported and/or tested on Windows. vw developers welcome pull-requests from Windows users.

Upvotes: 1

Mihai Todor
Mihai Todor

Reputation: 8239

You should check out MinGW:

MinGW, a contraction of "Minimalist GNU for Windows", is a minimalist development environment for native Microsoft Windows applications.

Upvotes: 1

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