@Hideaki @Richard Thank you so much for all the information. I think I am
just going to use a Linux instance with VMware workstation 10 for
development even through it's kinda laggy.

~ Quinn Liu


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Richard Crowder <[email protected]> wrote:

> @Hideaki Thank you, that looks quite elegant. I too find a VM quite
> cumbersome on my dev laptop, albeit it's probably one of the easiest ways
> to get NuPIC up and running through Windows. I'll try this later on and see
> how it fairs.
>
> @Quinn I've had NuPIC running within cygwin before. A list of required
> Python modules can be found here
> https://github.com/numenta/nupic/blob/master/external/common/requirements.txt
>
> This week I have made good progress with building the NuPIC.core using
> Visual Studio 2010. Only a few gotcha's; need GUI version of cmake (Wiki
> states the need for this, OS dependent generators), grab of latest yaml-cpp
> and pcre built and linked in. As far as I am aware, the core is out of date
> right now. I'm hoping that with Visual Studio solutions we'll be able to
> help move along Step 2 of the extraction plan (
> https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/nupic.core-Extraction-Plan).
>
> Regards, Richard.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:42 AM, Hideaki Suzuki <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Another possibility on Windows is Boot2docker.
>> Though it's still a VM technology, docker may be convenient for you.
>>
>>   http://boot2docker.io/
>>   https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/blob/master/doc/FAQ.md
>>
>> Instructions for the Nupic docker image are on Wiki.
>>
>>   https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Install-NuPIC-using-Docker
>> ​
>>
>> I tried Boot2docker by myself, too.  Here are the steps I took.
>>
>>   1. Download "docker-install.exe" from the page above (about 120MB)
>>
>>   2. Run "docker-install.exe" to do full-set install and reboot the PC.
>>
>>   3. Double click "Boot2docker Start" icon on the desktop.
>>       After some time, you see "boot2docker" ASCII art on the console.
>>
>>       Then, you are on the ssh session on a Tiny Core OS VM instance
>>       upon virtual box software.
>>
>>   4. pull numenta/nupic docker image.  This takes some time.
>>
>>       docker@boot2docker:~$ docker pull numenta/nupic
>>
>>   5. check the image.
>>
>>       docker@boot2docker:~$ docker run numenta/nupic /bin/date
>>       <the current date & time>
>>
>>        docker@boot2docker:~$ docker run numenta/nupic /bin/bash \
>>        -c "cd /usr/local/src/nupic/build/scripts; make python_unit_tests"
>>
>>        ... lots of output omitted ...
>>
>>        ==== 785 passed, 13 skipped in 84.75 seconds ====
>>        [100%] Built target python_unit_tests
>>
>>   6. run hotgym example.
>>
>>        docker run -i -t numenta/nupic /bin/bash -c \
>>        "python
>> /usr/local/src/nupic/examples/opf/clients/hotgym/simple/hotgym.py"
>>
>> ONLY 30 MINUTE TASK if everything goes well.  ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> By the way, I had a few troubles when installing Boot2docker on my
>> Windows7 PC.  In case you face the same troubles with Boot2docker, you can
>> check boot2docker/windows-installer#31 [1] for the details.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/boot2docker/windows-installer/issues/31
>>
>> Regards,
>> Hideaki
>>
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