mxnet - windows 10 missing module and errors

Hello Team,

I have tried for the last 2 days to install and get the mxnet tutorial running https://cv.gluon.ai/build/examples_tracking/demo_smot.html#sphx-glr-download-build-examples-tracking-demo-smot-py , with several combinations of packages and package versions, but can't seem to get any progress done. The problem is very vague. I downgraded to python 3.7.9 because 3.8 was just not helping.

the result of the diagnosis script is

C:\Users\Pinela\Desktop>python diagnose.py
----------Python Info----------
Version      : 3.7.9
Compiler     : MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)
Build        : ('tags/v3.7.9:13c94747c7', 'Aug 17 2020 18:58:18')
Arch         : ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
------------Pip Info-----------
Version      : 22.1
Directory    : C:\Users\Pinela\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pip
----------MXNet Info-----------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "diagnose.py", line 95, in check_mxnet
    import mxnet
  File "C:\Users\Pinela\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\mxnet\__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from .context import Context, current_context, cpu, gpu, cpu_pinned
  File "C:\Users\Pinela\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\mxnet\context.py", line 24, in <module>
    from .base import classproperty, with_metaclass, _MXClassPropertyMetaClass
  File "C:\Users\Pinela\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\mxnet\base.py", line 213, in <module>
    _LIB = _load_lib()
  File "C:\Users\Pinela\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\mxnet\base.py", line 204, in _load_lib
    lib = ctypes.CDLL(lib_path[0], ctypes.RTLD_LOCAL)
  File "C:\Users\Pinela\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 364, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: [WinError 126] Impossível localizar o módulo especificado

----------System Info----------
Platform     : Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
system       : Windows
node         : LenovoJP
release      : 10
version      : 10.0.19041
----------Hardware Info----------
machine      : AMD64
processor    : Intel64 Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel
Name
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz

----------Network Test----------
Setting timeout: 10
Timing for MXNet: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet, DNS: 0.1769 sec, LOAD: 0.9422 sec.
Error open Gluon Tutorial(en): http://gluon.mxnet.io, HTTP Error 404: Not Found, DNS finished in 0.22273778915405273 sec.
Error open Gluon Tutorial(cn): https://zh.gluon.ai, <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1091)>, DNS finished in 0.3773517608642578 sec.
Timing for FashionMNIST: https://apache-mxnet.s3-accelerate.dualstack.amazonaws.com/gluon/dataset/fashion-mnist/train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz, DNS: 0.1616 sec, LOAD: 0.9312 sec.
Timing for PYPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip, DNS: 0.1515 sec, LOAD: 1.0878 sec.
Error open Conda: https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/, HTTP Error 403: Forbidden, DNS finished in 0.17908167839050293 sec.
----------Environment----------

C:\Users\Pinela\Desktop>

nvcc is

C:\Users\Pinela>nvcc -V
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2019 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Wed_Oct_23_19:32:27_Pacific_Daylight_Time_2019
Cuda compilation tools, release 10.2, V10.2.89

C:\Users\Pinela>

I tried this sequence: pip3 install torch pip install opencv-python pip install mxnet-cu102==1.7.0 -f https://dist.mxnet.io/python/cu102 pip3 install gluoncv

then install the nvidia cuda 10.2 drivers installed VS2022

but still getting this error with the GPU

>>> import mxnet as mx
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\Pinela\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\mxnet\__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from .context import Context, current_context, cpu, gpu, cpu_pinned
  File "C:\Users\Pinela\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\mxnet\context.py", line 24, in <module>
    from .base import classproperty, with_metaclass, _MXClassPropertyMetaClass
  File "C:\Users\Pinela\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\mxnet\base.py", line 213, in <module>
    _LIB = _load_lib()
  File "C:\Users\Pinela\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\mxnet\base.py", line 204, in _load_lib
    lib = ctypes.CDLL(lib_path[0], ctypes.RTLD_LOCAL)
  File "C:\Users\Pinela\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 364, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: [WinError 126] Impossível localizar o módulo especificado
>>> exit()

the only way to be able to import mxnet is to use the cpu library pip install --upgrade mxnet-mkl

besides that, I have tried several versions of all the components, but haven't been able to get the tutorial test command python demo.py MOT17-13-FRCNN-raw.webm --network-name ssd_512_resnet50_v1_coco --use-pretrained --custom-classes person car --detect-thresh 0.7 --use-motion to run, because it keeps wanting the gpu (saying it was not enabled, running on the cpu library).

I have looked through several issues here, but didn't come to any conclusion.

Could you please point to a group of versions and components that should be able to run the tutorial on windows 10? from what I could see, running on linux would be much easier.

Thanks Team

apache / mxnet

mxnet - windows 10 missing module and errors #21035