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Jack Gerrits edited this page Apr 29, 2019 · 1 revision

Build requirements

Visual Studio 2013 AND Visual Studio 2015
Run the following from Windows Command prompt (cmd.exe) to restore nugets. Just restoring in Visual Studio isn't enough, as the build definition already depends on one of the nugets (ANTLR).
Don't upgrade the solution to Visual Studio 2015. The C++ is not compatible yet.

cd vowpalwabbit
.nuget\NuGet.exe restore vw.sln

Optional

Azure SDK
WiX to edit the installer
To run the tests you need to install Java Runtime
To avoid space/tab/.. reformatting, install Editor Config VS Plugin

Azure Unit Tests

Create required Azure resources using

Create vw_azure.config in your local checkout folder (or any parent of it):

  storageConnectionString = <storage account key>
  inputEventHubConnectionString = <eventhub connection string>
  evalEventHubConnectionString = <eventhub connection string>

Run Visual Studio as Administrator (elevated) as the Azure hosted trainer creates and writes to performance counters.

Random tips

Select x64 platform (Configuration Manager \ Active solution platfrom)
Select x64 as test platform (Test \ Test settings \ Default Processor Architecture)
Don't trust the Visual Studio 2013 debugger on stack frames in C++/CLI. We observed bogus values. Moving to C++ or C# everything was correct.