MegEngine/scripts/cmake-build/BUILD_README.md

# Build support status
## Host build
* Windows build (cpu and gpu)
* Linux build   (cpu and gpu)
* MacOS build   (cpu only)

## Cross build
* Windows cross build ARM-Android (ok)
* Windows cross build ARM-Linux   (ok)
* Linux cross build ARM-Android   (ok)
* Linux cross build ARM-Linux     (ok)
* MacOS cross build ARM-Android   (ok)
* MacOS cross build ARM-Linux     (ok but experimental)
* MacOS cross build IOS           (ok)

# Build env prepare
## Package install
### Windows host build
* commands:
```
1: install git (Windows GUI)
	* download git-install.exe from https://git-scm.com/download/win
	* only need choose git-lfs component
	* install to default dir:  /c/Program\ Files/Git
2: install visual studio 2019 Enterprise (Windows GUI)
	* download install exe from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com
	* choose "c++ develop" -> choose cmake/MSVC/clang/cmake/windows-sdk when install
	* NOTICE: windows sdk version >=14.28.29910 do not compat with CUDA 10.1, please
		choose version < 14.28.29910
	* then install choosed components
	* after install visual studio 2019 Enterprise, time to replace lld-link.exe
		caused by visual studio 2019 lld-link.exe have crash issue
		download office exe from https://releases.llvm.org/download.html
		install to default: C:\Program Files\LLVM
		cd "/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Enterprise/VC/Tools/Llvm/bin"
		cp /c/Program\ Files/LLVM/bin/lld-link.exe lld-link.exe
3: install python3 (Windows GUI)
	* download python 64-bit install exe (we support python3.5-python3.8 now)
	     https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.4/python-3.5.4-amd64.exe
	     https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.8/python-3.6.8-amd64.exe
	     https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.7/python-3.7.7-amd64.exe
	     https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.3/python-3.8.3-amd64.exe
	* install 3.5.4 to /c/Users/${USER}/mge_whl_python_env/3.5.4
	* install 3.6.8 to /c/Users/${USER}/mge_whl_python_env/3.6.8
	* install 3.7.7 to /c/Users/${USER}/mge_whl_python_env/3.7.7
	* install 3.8.3 to /c/Users/${USER}/mge_whl_python_env/3.8.3
	* cp python.exe to python3.exe
		loop cd /c/Users/${USER}/mge_whl_python_env/*
		copy python.exe to python3.exe
	* install python depends components
		loop cd /c/Users/${USER}/mge_whl_python_env/*
		python3.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
		python3.exe -m pip install -r imperative/python/requires.txt
		python3.exe -m pip install -r imperative/python/requires-test.txt
4: install cuda components (Windows GUI)
	* now we support cuda10.1+cudnn7.6+TensorRT6.0 on Windows
	* install cuda10.1 to C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.1
	* install cudnn7.6 to C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\cudnn-10.1-windows10-x64-v7.6.5.32
	* install TensorRT6.0 to C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\TensorRT-6.0.1.5
5: edit system env variables (Windows GUI)
	* create new key: "VS_PATH", value: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise"
	* append "Path" env value
        C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
		C:\Users\build\mge_whl_python_env\3.8.3
		C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.1\bin
		C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.1\libnvvp
		C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\cudnn-10.1-windows10-x64-v7.6.5.32\cuda\bin
		C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\VC\Tools\Llvm\lib\clang\11.0.0\lib\windows
		C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\VC\Tools\Llvm\x64\lib\clang\11.0.0\lib\windows
```

### Linux host build
* commands:
```
1: install Cmake, which version >= 3.15.2, ninja-build
2: install gcc/g++, which version >= 6, (gcc/g++ >= 7, if need build training mode)
3: install build-essential git git-lfs gfortran libgfortran-6-dev autoconf gnupg flex bison gperf curl zlib1g-dev gcc-multilib g++-multilib lib32ncurses5-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc unzip libtool librdmacm-dev rdmacm-utils python3-dev python3-numpy texinfo
4: CUDA env(if enable CUDA), version detail refer to README.md
```

### MacOS host build
* commands:
```
1: install Cmake, which version >= 3.15.2
2: install brew: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
3: brew install python python3 coreutils ninja
4: install at least xcode command line tool: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
5: about cuda: we do not support CUDA on MacOS
6: python3 -m pip install numpy (if you want to build with training mode)
```

### Cross build for ARM-Android
Now we support Windows/Linux/MacOS cross build to ARM-Android

* commands:
```
2: download NDK from https://developer.android.google.cn/ndk/downloads/ for diff OS platform package, suggested NDK20 or NDK21
3: export NDK_ROOT=NDK_DIR at bash-like env
```

### Cross build for ARM-Linux
Now we support ARM-Linux on Linux and Windows fully, also experimental on MacOS

* commands:
```
1: download toolchains from http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ or https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-software/developer-tools/gnu-toolchain/gnu-a/downloads if use Windows or Linux
2: download toolchains from https://github.com/thinkski/osx-arm-linux-toolchains if use MacOS
```

### Cross build for IOS
Now we only support cross build to IOS from MACOS

* commands:
```
1: install full xcode: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
```

## Third-party code prepare
With bash env(Linux/MacOS/Unix-Like tools on Windows, eg: msys etc)

* commands:
```
./third_party/prepare.sh
./third_party/install-mkl.sh
```

Windows shell env(bash from windows-git), infact if you can use git command on Windows, which means you always install bash.exe at the same dir of git.exe, find it, then you can prepare third-party code by

* command:
```
bash.exe ./third_party/prepare.sh
bash.exe ./third_party/install-mkl.sh
```

# How to build
## With bash env(Linux/MacOS/Windows-git-bash)

* command:
```
1: host build just use scripts:scripts/cmake-build/host_build.sh
2: cross build to ARM-Android: scripts/cmake-build/cross_build_android_arm_inference.sh
3: cross build to ARM-Linux:   scripts/cmake-build/cross_build_linux_arm_inference.sh
4: cross build to IOS:         scripts/cmake-build/cross_build_ios_arm_inference.sh
```

## Visual Studio GUI(only for Windows host)

* command:
```
1: import megengine src to Visual Studio as a project
2: right click CMakeLists.txt, choose config 'cmake config' choose clang_cl_x86 or clang_cl_x64
3: config other CMAKE config, eg, CUDA ON OR OFF
```


# Other ARM-Linux-Like board support
It`s easy to support other customized arm-linux-like board, example:

* 1: HISI 3516/3519, infact u can just use toolchains from arm developer or linaro
then call scripts/cmake-build/cross_build_linux_arm_inference.sh to build a ELF
binary, or if you get HISI official toolschain, you just need modify CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER
and CMAKE_C_COMPILER in toolchains/arm-linux-gnueabi* to a real name

* 2: about Raspberry, just use scripts/cmake-build/cross_build_linux_arm_inference.sh