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Amalgamation #19193

Closed believeitmyway closed 4 years ago

believeitmyway commented 4 years ago

The amalgamation folder seems to disappear from the repo, is it no longer supported? I want to minimize the dependency and convert it to a single file. Is there another way?

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szha commented 4 years ago

Amalgamation is still available in v1.x.

In terms of generating a single binary to link to that minimizes dependency, you could use -DMXNET_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF to build static library of mxnet with .a extension, link to it, and strip all symbols that weren't used. On linux, you can use strip --strip-unneeded on your final library so file for this purpose.

believeitmyway commented 4 years ago

Thank you so much. I have another question. The URL below states that we can also remove the dependency on BLAS. Is there any procedure for that?

https://mxnet.apache.org/versions/1.7/api/faq/smart_device

szha commented 4 years ago

I think that comment may be outdated. BLAS functions include accelerated gemm which is quite essential to deep learning. I would recommend to always choose a BLAS library in any case.

believeitmyway commented 4 years ago

I understand that. Thank you!