FreeWill is a deeplearning library implemented in C++. The purpose of writing FreeWill is for me to understand deeplearning in detail. In addition to the library itself, I will try to write detailed document and examples.

The first goal of this project is matching https://github.com/karpathy/convnetjs feature wise.

So far, I have only tested on Ubuntu 16

I have been avoiding introducing dependencies to this project, but you need to have Qt5 to use it.

Make sure you have also installed Qt5Websockets, this may not be included in Qt5Base

sudo apt-get install libqt5websockets5-dev

To build:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug

In case you want to specify which Qt5 to use (for example you want to build Qt yourself), do this to config this project:

CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/shiy/Qt/5.7/gcc_64 cmake ..  -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug

An example of building FreeWill on Mac OS with complex compiler setup:

cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/Users/shiyan/Qt/5.7/clang_64 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/Users/shiyan/gcc7/bin/g++ -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/Users/shiyan/gcc7/bin/gcc -DCUDA_HOST_COMPILER=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/clang

In this case, Qt 5.7 installed with Qt installer is used. A Self-built gcc7 is used to compile c++. A down-graded clang 3.7 is used for cuda compiling, as the newer clang isn't supported by nvcc.