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And about this package, I've splitted it into mxnet{,-cuda,-mkl}. And it will take lots of time and space to compile.

The pre-built binaries of mxnet{,-cuda,-mkl} and their dependencies can be found in arch4edu.

I'm not currently using the AUR package, but is the linking error you see the same as:

[ 94%] Linking CXX executable im2rec
/bin/ld: libmxnet.a(la_op.cc.o): undefined reference to symbol 'cblas_ssyrk'
/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libcblas.so.3: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/im2rec.dir/build.make:103: im2rec] Error 1

? I'm trying to build with CUDA and openblas, using their from-source instructions [Because I want to use it for R, not for python, and it's just easier this way]. I'd like to know whether I'm hitting the same snag as you all.

Update: MXNet can not be build with support for CUDA because Arch Linux uses GCC-9 while CUDA-10.2 supports only GCC-8. The CUDA-10.2 pacakge in Arch Linux is statically linked to GCC-8.

Mixing GCC-8 and GCC-9 compilation units may result in UB.

We have to wait for NVIDIA to release a CUDA version with GCC-9 support (of course Arch Linux's default compiler should remain GCC-9 too).

I could compile apache-mxnet-1.5.1 from sources without patching on a upt-to-data arch installation (gcc-9.2, cuda-10.2).

mkdir build && cd bild

cmake -DUSE_NCCL=1 -DUSE_CPP_PACKAGE=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -GNinja ..

ninja -v

enables CUDA, NCCL, OpenCV, OpenMP, MKL (intel), CPP-API.

Seams that patching isn't necessary.

Unfortunately linking fails at a clean checkout of mxnet from github (because of C++-ABI incompatibility) ...

@olko Let's do the steps one by one.
I'm trying to enable opencv and migrate the build script to dev_menu.py now.

any update? currently the AUR package of MXNet is not usable :(

@olko I'll take a look next month.

@petronny Your mxnet package fails because of unmet dependencies to intel and mkl packages (so I used the upstream archive).

I got MXNet compiled with OpenCV + CUDA + MKL.

The problem was that Arch Linux provides the newest GCC version (9.2.0 at this time) and newer versions are more eager to generate warnings.

MXNet uses -Werror that causes compilation abortion. As a quick fix I removed -Werror from the cmake config for MKLDNN. But I'll provide a pull request upstream that eliminates the warnings.

My Steps:

• download and extract the official MXNet 1.5.1 archive (apache-mxnet-src-1.5.1-incubating.tar.gz)

• cd apache-mxnet-src-1.5.1-incubating

• store cmake config (https://pastebin.com/5K3FZkCB) as cmake_options.yml in apache-mxnet-src-1.5.1-incubating (I believe that USE_MKLML_MKL and USE_MKLDNN are automatically switched on if USE_MKL_IF_AVAILABLE is enabled)

• apply OpenCV patch (OpenCV-flags in namespace cv) https://pastebin.com/VgUNTm6A

• apply MKLDNN patch (remove -Werror causing abort) https://pastebin.com/6SpE3btx

• call ./dev_menu.py build

Please, provide a new AUR package that uses my configuration from above (e.g. CUDA + MKL enabled for MXNet).

ty, Oliver

@olko Because it doesn't build when I wrote the PKGBUILD.

If it's building now or you figure out how to make it build, I'm happy to merge your changes.

Why is mxnet configured without support for OpenCV?

Why is no mxnet-cuda-mkl provided?