Caffe Installation - OX S Yosemite, 10.10.4, Macbook Air - CPU only

[Umar Spa]

• Xcode installation from Apple Store
• Homebrew installation:
• $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
• CUDA 7 installation:
  
• https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
  
• Mac OSX, Local Installer, Version 10.9
• N.B. apparently ‘CUDA Toolkit’ installation would have been enough but I also installed ‘CUDA Driver’ and ‘CUDA Samples’
• General Dependencies:
• $ brew install -vd snappy leveldb gflags glog szip lmdb
  
• $ brew tap homebrew/science
• $ brew install hdf5 opencv         
• N.B. ‘make bootstrap’ will take some time, have patience !
• $ brew install --build-from-source --with-python -vd protobuf
• $ brew install --build-from-source -vd boost boost-python
• N.B. this is going to take long time as well, with lots of clang warnings.
• $ brew install python
• Caffe installation:
• Go the directory where you wish to have 'caffe'. In my case it was: /Users/UmarSpa/Documents/
• $ git clone https://github.com/BVLC/caffe.git
• $ cd caffe
• $ cp Makefile.config.example Makefile.config
• Now open the Makefile.config file and make the following modifications:
  
• CPU_ONLY := 1
  
• PYTHON_INCLUDE := /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 \    /usr/local/Cellar/numpy/1.9.2_1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/include 
• PYTHON_LIB := /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib
  
• Remain in the caffe folder and execute:
  
• $ make clean
• $ make all
• $ make test
• $ make runtest
• ERROR ENCOUNTERED:
• Umars-Air:caffe UmarSpa$ make all
• No receipt for 'com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables' found at '/'.
• PROTOC src/caffe/proto/caffe.proto
• CXX .build_release/src/caffe/proto/caffe.pb.cc
• CXX src/caffe/blob.cpp
• In file included from src/caffe/blob.cpp:4:
• In file included from ./include/caffe/blob.hpp:10:
• In file included from ./include/caffe/syncedmem.hpp:7:
• In file included from ./include/caffe/util/math_functions.hpp:11:
• ./include/caffe/util/mkl_alternate.hpp:11:10: fatal error: 'cblas.h'
• file not found
• #include <cblas.h>          
•               ^
• 1 error generated.make: *** [.build_release/src/caffe/blob.o] Error 1
• FIRST SOLUTION TRIED:
• $ touch ~/.bash_profile; open ~/.bash_profile
• add the following line in the file:  
• export PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:$PATH
• export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
• $ source ~/.bash_profile
• This solution didn't work [but it is still useful to add these paths in the bash_profile]
• SECOND SOLUTION TRIED:
• Download and install CUDA driver from : http://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html , CUDA 7.0.52 driver for MAC
• Install command line tools: 
• $ xcode-select --install
• The second solution seems to solve the problem. But I am not sure which of the two points of third solution solved the error.
  
• Pycaffe Installation:
  
• $ for req in $(cat /Users/UmarSpa/Documents/caffe/python/requirements.txt); do pip install $req; done 
• $ make pycaffe
• $ touch ~/.bash_profile; open ~/.bash_profile 
• add the following line in the file: 
• export PYTHONPATH=/Users/UmarSpa/Documents/caffe/python:$PYTHONPATH
• $ source ~/.bash_profile
  
• $ make distribute
  
• $ cd /Users/UmarSpa/Documents/caffe/python
• $ python
  
• >>> import caffe
  
• If it doesn't give any error than it means that it works !!!!!

[Ariel Ephrat]

Thanks so much Umar!

Your instructions prevailed where others' failed...

[Igor Vishnevskiy]

Above steps worked, but instead of installing all dependencies using loop:
$for req in $(cat /Users/UmarSpa/Documents/caffe/python/requirements.txt); do pip install $req; done
... I had to manually open the "caffe/python/requirements.txt" file and install every dependency manually using:
sudo -H
example:
sudo -H pip install Cython
sudo -H pip install numpy
sudo -H pip install scipy
sudo -H pip install scikit-image
sudo -H pip install matplotlib
sudo -H pip install ipython
sudo -H pip install h5py
sudo -H pip install leveldb
sudo -H pip install networkx
sudo -H pip install nose
sudo -H pip install pandas
sudo -H pip install python-dateutil
sudo -H pip install protobuf
sudo -H pip install python-gflags>
sudo -H pip install pyyaml
sudo -H pip install Pillow
sudo -H pip install six

[Umar Spa]

I just checked the loop, and for me it still works....probably you are making some mistake in the path.

Anyhow, doing it with the loop or manually is the same thing.

[Lucian Ionita]

Thanks Umar! Quick and painless installation. This should be the reference for installing caffe on mac. 

[Joshua peng]

I am trying to install cafe on Mac 10.12.1 sierra using , it came to have the errors below while following the described steps above:

Joshuas-MacBook-Pro:caffe Books$ make all

PROTOC src/caffe/proto/caffe.proto

CXX .build_release/src/caffe/proto/caffe.pb.cc

CXX src/caffe/blob.cpp

In file included from src/caffe/blob.cpp:7:

In file included from ./include/caffe/util/math_functions.hpp:11:

./include/caffe/util/mkl_alternate.hpp:14:10: fatal error: 'cblas.h' file not found

#include <cblas.h>

         ^

1 error generated.

make: *** [.build_release/src/caffe/blob.o] Error 1

I have tried the ways you mentioned to fix it, but none worked, I also installed Anaconda Python,not sure that is needed. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[Noel Faux]

@Joshua peng  see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/caffe-users/xqPDUcyOml8

You need to modify the Make file to point Caffe at cblas.