TypeError while installing PyTorch 1.0 from source on Windows 10

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I’ve tried to build and install PyTorch 1.0 on Windows 10 with the following parameters:

  • Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 770
  • NVidia CUDA 10.0 + cuDNN
  • PyTorch 1.0
  • Anaconda Python 3.7
  • Visual Studio 2017

I’ve done the following steps from https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch#from-source:

conda install numpy pyyaml mkl mkl-include setuptools cmake cffi typing
git clone --recursive https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch
cd pytorch

set "VS150COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\VC\Auxiliary\Build"
set CMAKE_GENERATOR=Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64
set DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1
set MSSdk=1

call "%VS150COMNTOOLS%\vcvarsall.bat" x64 -vcvars_ver=14.15
python setup.py install

But upon running setup.py I receive this error:

Building wheel torch-1.0.0a0+db5d313
running install
setup.py::run()
running build_deps
setup.py::build_deps::run()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 1018, in <module>
    rel_site_packages + '/caffe2/**/*.py'
  File "C:\Programming\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 143, in setup
    return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
  File "C:\Programming\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\Programming\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 966, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\Programming\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 985, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "setup.py", line 685, in run
    self.run_command('build_deps')
  File "C:\Programming\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\Programming\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 985, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "setup.py", line 443, in run
    build_libs(libs)
  File "setup.py", line 402, in build_libs
    if subprocess.call(build_libs_cmd + libs, env=my_env, **kwargs) != 0:
  File "C:\Programming\Anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py", line 317, in call
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:
  File "C:\Programming\Anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py", line 769, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "C:\Programming\Anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py", line 1172, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
TypeError: environment can only contain strings

Any ideas what might be the reason for this?

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Oh, I just found out why it didn’t work: Building pytorch with Visual Studio + CUDA apparently requires the Cuda Visual Studio Integration to be installed. So I re-ran the CUDA installer and checked the appropriate box and now the build is running. Hope that this might help other too.

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Glad you found that out. Apparently we should throw an exception here.

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Well, now I have another problem:

"C:\Users\Alex\Repositories\pytorch\build\INSTALL.vcxproj" (default target) (1) ->
"C:\Users\Alex\Repositories\pytorch\build\ALL_BUILD.vcxproj" (default target) (3) ->
"C:\Users\Alex\Repositories\pytorch\build\caffe2\AlgorithmsTest.vcxproj" (default target) (4) ->
"C:\Users\Alex\Repositories\pytorch\build\caffe2\caffe2_gpu.vcxproj" (default target) (21) ->
(CustomBuild target) ->
  Error : Internal Compiler error (codegen): "there was an error in verifying the lgenfe output!" [C:\Users\Alex\Repositories\pytorch\build\caffe2\caffe2_gpu.vcxproj]

    24529 Warning(s)
    1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 01:08:11.21

C:\Users\Alex\Repositories\pytorch\build>IF ERRORLEVEL 1 exit 1
Failed to run 'tools\build_pytorch_libs.bat --use-cuda --use-nnpack --use-mkldnn --use-qnnpack caffe2'
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