windows cmake problem

[wangxianliang]

I put protobuf under the mxnet directory and successfully built the binary protoc.exe and set PROTOBUF_SRC_ROOT_FOLDER to .\mxnet\protobuf-master\install
however, when I configure mxnet project using cmake, it pops up the following errors:

Could NOT find PROTOBUF (missing: PROTOBUF_LIBRARY)
CMake Error at ps-lite/cmake/ProtoBuf.cmake:13 (message):
Could not find PROTOBUF Compiler
Call Stack (most recent call first):
ps-lite/CMakeLists.txt:16 (include)

Could anybody help? Thanks a lot.

[tqchen]

You can disable the protobuf dep by simply not compile with ps-lite by default. @mli Maybe we want to switch off ps-lite dep on default compile on windows?

[loveisp]

You can just uncheck the option "USE_DIST_KVSTORE" in CMake GUI. But this error is disgusting for me and take me a few hours.

[yajiedesign]

use advanced mode ,you can set PROTOBUF_*.and it work ok

[wangxianliang]

Thanks! advanced mode works for me.

[cupermanrose]

@tqchen I had the same problem in windows.Can Mxnet compile with ps-lite\camke\ProtoBuf.cmake in windows now?(check the option"USE_DIST_KVSTORE")