[Off-topic / Do not answer] GPU installation pictures

[Laurae2]

issue used for adding pictures for GPU installation on Windows

Changing PATH:

MinGW install:

Checking whether we are using R's MinGW or stand-alone MinGW (we are using R here):

What you get at the end of Boost installation (this was for MinGW 5.3, while Rtools is not 5.3 currently):

This is what happens when we link to Rtools's MinGW:

Here, downloading Git for Windows:

Here, cmake download:

Here I use cmake on C:/xgboost/LightGBM:

Scroll down, and check USE_GPU:

In Git Bash, we can run make and we clearly see it compiled successfully with GPU!:

Some hack to do on CLI/Python GPU to avoid segmentation fault:

Alternative hack:

When we run it with CLI with GPU support:

We can even compile for Python without any issue:

In Python and Windows, we cannot see the GPU so you have to rely on the delay between the issued command and the real training:

Getting Makeconf in R:

Makevars looks like that:

Installation in R working peacefully:

Now we can try with GPU support in R:

Laurae's LightGBM package:

Debugging:

remove this:

add debug in cmake:

compile with debug:

run:

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random stuff (pictures for PR)

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