caffe:mac10.12 Steps to install Caffe

Preface: Caffe official website installs the Caffe when involves the thing to be more and disorderly, actually some things can ignore.

Steps:

The mac10.12 itself comes with a python2.7 that can be used by the system's own python

1. Install Homebrew:

Enter Ruby-e "$ (curl-fssl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install) in terminal

2. Install some dependent libraries needed for Caffe, enter the following lines in the terminal in turn

brew install -vd snappy leveldb gflags glog szip lmdb# need the homebrew science source for OpenCV and hdf5brew tap homebrew/sciencebrew install hdf5 opencv

# with Python pycaffe needs dependencies built from source

brew install --build-from-source --with-python -vd protobuf

brew install --build-from-source -vd boost boost-python

3. The Blas,caffe description (below) that is required to install the Caffe (below) is the Accelerate/veclib Framework that you can choose to use with your Mac, and you can choose Openblas and MKL. I didn't get the whole accelerate/veclib Framework, I chose to install Openblas.

Blas:already installed as the Accelerate/veclib Framework. Openblas and MKL is alternatives for faster CPU computation.

Download the Openblas source code and compile and install to the/usr/local directory:

Tar xvf openblas-0.2.19.tar.gz

CD OpenBLAS-0.2.19

make

make PREFIX=/usr/local install

Here, all the libraries that Caffe need to rely on are installed and started to install Caffe

4. Installing Caffe

Perform the following lines in the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/BVLC/caffe

cd /Users/XXX/caffe #caffe的

cp Makefile.config.example Makefile.config

You need to modify the Makefile.config file:

1. Remove the Cpu_only: = 1 Comment So that the Caffe can only run on the CPU

2. Change the configuration of the Blas

# BLAS Choice:

# Atlas for Atlas (default)

# MKL for MKL

# Open for Openblas

BLAS: = Open

# Custom (Mkl/atlas/openblas) include and Lib directories.

# Leave commented to accept the defaults for your choice of BLAS

# (which should work)!

Blas_include: =/usr/local/include

Blas_lib: =/usr/local/lib

Then execute on the terminal:

make all

make test

make runtest

If the Caffe installation is successful, it will appear as follows:

caffe:mac10.12 Steps to install Caffe