Created new thread for this as my email were not sending through my work email. Original thread can be found here ( https://lists.apache.org/list.html?d...@mxnet.apache.org:lte=1M:dynamically)
There seems to be an issue linking static libraries (MKLDNN) on windows as not all VS compilers support statically linking ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18901128/link-static-library-using-cmake ) PR can be tracked here ( https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13197). Jenkins fails on windows build. There are two routes I see here (both non-ideal): 1. Keep mkldnn as a dynamically linked library. This will cause issues, especially since the mkldnn version has been incremented to 0.17 and soon to be 0.17.1. 2. Change build file such that mkldnn is statically linked in linux/mac but remains dynamically linked on windows. This will complicate our build files (cmakelistfile and makefile) but it may be easier to resolve mkldnn issues on mac/linux since we'll know what version of mkldnn they are using.
