Alea GPU Tutorial not compiling on VS 2015 Update 2 with FSharp.Core 4.4.0.0

Question

I am getting error while compiling Alea GPU Tutorial: https://github.com/quantalea/AleaGPUTutorial in Visual Studio 2015 Community Update 2 with FSharp.Core version 4.4.0.0

Answer 1

I too had a similar problem when I first tried loading one of Alea 3.0.3 samples. It took me a few minutes to figure out but this worked for me and was pretty simple to run the sample files.

1) Using Visual Studio Package Manager Console ran ./paket_setup.bat provided with the sample.zip file 2) Added the FSharp.Core.dll from under the sample project solution folder ./packages/FSharp.Core/lib/net40/FSharp.Core.dll

After this the project ran without issue.

I didn't need to install anything into the GAC