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Wolfgang Manousek edited this page Jan 25, 2017 · 3 revisions

Creating a compiled Protobuf 3.1.0 for CNTK

If you want to build the Protobuf 3.1.0 for CNTK yourself, follow these instructions. The compiled Protobuf version will be located in c:\local\protobuf-3.1.0-vs15

The following steps assume that the Protobuf sources have been unzipped to the directory c:\local\src\protobuf-3.1.0. The instructions below will create the Protobuf libraries and header files in the directory c:\local\protobuf-3.1.0-vs15. If this location differs in your case, please adapt the steps below to match your directory structure.

There are two ways to build the CNTK Protobuf library, either through a batch file or manually.

Building through a batch file

In the directory Tools\devInstall\Windows you find the batch file buildProtoVS15.bat. This batch file takes two parameters to build the CNTK Protobuf library. The first parameter is the directory of the Protobuf source files you unpacked above, the second parameter is the destination directory for the created Protobuf library. In our case follow these steps from a standard Windows command prompt:

c:
cd \repos\cntk\Tools\devInstall\Windows
buildProtoVS15 C:\local\src\protobuf-3.1.0 C:\local\protobuf-3.1.0-vs15

Set the environment variable PROTOBUF_PATH to the Protobuf location (this is the second parameter in the command invocation above, not the sources location!

    setx PROTOBUF_PATH c:\local\protobuf-3.1.0-vs15

Manual build steps for a CNTK Protobuf library

  1. Launch a 64-bit Visual Studio 2015 development environment. The most convenient was is to execute the batch file vcvarsall.bat in the Visual Studio directory with the required parameters from a standard windows command shell:
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" amd64

If you can't find this batch file on your system, please revisit the installation of VS2015 and make sure you have the 'Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015' option selected. 2. Create a build directory:  

    c:\users\users> cd C:\local\src\protobuf-3.1.0\cmake
    C:\local\src\protobuf-3.1.0\cmake> mkdir build && cd build
  1. Create a debug build: 
    C:\local\src\protobuf-3.1.0\cmake\build>mkdir debug && cd debug
    C:\local\src\protobuf-3.1.0\cmake\build\debug>cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -Dprotobuf_MSVC_STATIC_RUNTIME=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="c:\local\protobuf-3.1.0-vs15" ..\..
    C:\local\src\protobuf-3.1.0\cmake\build\debug>nmake && nmake install
    C:\local\src\protobuf-3.1.0\cmake\build\debug>cd ..
  1. Create a release build:
    C:\local\src\protobuf-3.1.0\cmake\build>mkdir release && cd release
    C:\local\src\protobuf-3.1.0\cmake\build\release>cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -Dprotobuf_MSVC_STATIC_RUNTIME=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="c:\local\protobuf-3.1.0-vs15" ..\..
    C:\local\src\protobuf-3.1.0\cmake\build\release>nmake && nmake install
    C:\local\src\protobuf-3.1.0\cmake\build\debug>cd ..
  1. Set the environment variable PROTOBUF_PATH to the Protobuf location (Note: this is the install location used in the cmake command above, not the sources location!):
    setx PROTOBUF_PATH c:\local\protobuf-3.1.0-vs15

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