Need help: how to manually build whl

[hkvision]

Hi,

Are there any instructions to build the whl for mxnet that is equivalent to the whl that you release on pypi?

I have compiled the project using mkl with libmxnet.so under incubator-mxnet/lib, then I run python setup.py bdist_wheel under incubator-mxnet/python and get a whl under dist, if I pip install this whl, I am encounting the following issues when import mxnet:

• Cannot find libmxnet.so, I am using conda, and seems the file is under /root/anaconda3/envs/py36/mxnet/libmxnet.so instead of in /root/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mxnet/ and cannot be found by code.
• Wondering will the so files for libopencv included?
• dmlc_tracker package is not installed. However, if I install from released pypi, it is installed automatically. Related issue: https://discuss.mxnet.io/t/cant-load-dmlc-tracker-package/1282/3

Thanks so much in advance!

[stu1130]

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[stu1130]

@ChaiBapchya could you take a look at this question?

[leezu]

@hkvision this is a known issue. Workaround: #16933 (comment)

@ChaiBapchya if you could help fix it, that would be great.

[ChaiBapchya]

Working on it.

[hkvision]

Hi @leezu Thanks for supporting. I saw the workaround for libmxnet.so in the comment. I will follow https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/tree/master/tools/staticbuild and the way you mention in the comment.
Wondering will the remaining two points I mentioned in the issue description (dmlc, opencv) be resolved in this case?
Thanks so much.

[leezu]

OpenCV will be linked statically.

@szha please advise about dmlc_tracker. You mentioned on Jun '18 2018

pip package will include dmlc_tracker starting from tonight’s nightly build.

[szha]

@leezu it's copied into the wheel from 3rdparty/dmlc-core/tracker/dmlc_tracker.

[szha]

The staticbuild scripts for building custom whl are now available in the MXNet code base https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/tree/master/tools/staticbuild