Installing theano on Windows 8 with GPU enabled

Question

I understand that the Theano support for Windows 8.1 is at experimental stage only but I wonder if anyone had any luck with resolving my issues. Depending on my config, I ge

Answer 1

I could compile the cu files by adding the required dependencies in the nvcc profile located in “C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v7.5\bin\nvcc.profile”

I modified the include and the lib path and it started working.

INCLUDES += “-I$(TOP)/include” $(SPACE) “-IC:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/VC/include” $(SPACE) “-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Include” $(SPACE) LIBRARIES =+ $(SPACE) “/LIBPATH:$(TOP)/lib/$(_WIN_PLATFORM_)” $(SPACE) “/LIBPATH:C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/VC/lib/amd64” $(SPACE) “/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Lib\x64” $(SPACE)

I have made a full documentation of the install, hope it helps https://planetanacreon.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/install-theano-on-windows-8-1-with-visual-studio-2013-cuda-7-5/