Building from source

You can build Retia with or without GPU support. If you just want to take a look at the source and tinker around for a bit, build without GPU support. You can always build the full version later.

Building without GPU support

You will need Visual Studio with C# and basic C++ capabilities.

The process is very simple: just build Retia.CPUOnly.sln and you are done :)

Building with GPU support

You will need a couple of things to build Retia from source:

• Visual Studio 2017.
• CUDA Toolkit 10.0 from NVidia. Get it here.
• CuDNN 7 library. Download (you will need to register a free account with NVidia).
• Visual C++ (comes with Visual Studio, just be sure to check appropriate boxes during installation).

Building CUDA tests

To build Retia.Cuda.Tests, you need to install vcpkg and Google Test. To do this you will need:

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 or higher
• git accesible from your command line

Now open admin command prompt and execute:

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git [vcpkg install dir]
cd [vcpkg install dir]
powershell -exec bypass scripts\bootstrap.ps1
vcpkg integrate install
vcpkg install gtest:x64-windows

Restart Visual Studio if you had it open. Now you can build the test project.