[Nix-dev] Packaging Torch

[Sergey Mironov]

Hi again. I come to a runnable version of Torch package. Not sure it
works correctly, but I can see its colored command prompt.

    $ git clone https://github.com/grwlf/torch-distro --recursive
    $ cd torch-distro
    $ nix-build build.nix

Install.log says that some optional packages (namely, iTorch) have
failed to build. Also, the package has many Lua dependencies
incorporated, one have to switch them to lua-packages.nix somehow.

Regards,
Sergey


2016-02-17 18:11 GMT+03:00 Sergey Mironov <grrwlf at gmail.com>:
> Thanks!
>
> I'll report the progress here :)
>
> 2016-02-16 22:04 GMT+03:00 Jonn Mostovoy <jm at memorici.de>:
>> I just want to point out that I wanted to build a neural network engine in
>> lua with some auxiliary dependencies and faced unpleasant problems with 'cc'
>> binary pointing not where the author's cmake file expected to point.
>> Didn't research, much, but if anything, I'd be interested to contribute to
>> little things when it comes to lua packaging.
>>
>> On Feb 16, 2016 7:06 PM, "William Casarin" <bill at casarin.me> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Sergey Mironov <grrwlf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi, List. I'd like to use Torch (http://torch.ch/) on NixOS and it
>>> > looks like I have to package it first.
>>>
>>> I was looking into this awhile back. On the lua side, some pre-reqs
>>> would make this a lot easier:
>>>
>>>   * luarocks2nix (https://luarocks.org/manifest.zip)
>>>   * packaging these https://github.com/torch/rocks
>>>
>>> This would be useful for things outside Torch as well, but looks like
>>> a lot of work...
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