Python on Windows 7: dll load failed Net, SGDSolver, etc.

[Paul Delamusica]

I build caffe on VC2013 following the instructions in https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/blob/windows/README.md. It ran for a long time and seemed to have completed successfully, although I might have missed some messages.

I saw it produced caffe.exe in C:\projects\caffe\build\tools\Release. But when I try to import caffe in Python, I get the following message:

>>> import caffe

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

  File "C:\projects\caffe\python\caffe\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>

    from .pycaffe import Net, SGDSolver, NesterovSolver, AdaGradSolver, RMSPropS

olver, AdaDeltaSolver, AdamSolver

  File "C:\projects\caffe\python\caffe\pycaffe.py", line 13, in <module>

    from ._caffe import Net, SGDSolver, NesterovSolver, AdaGradSolver, \

ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

I could not find _caffe.so or any dll with recognizable name. What are the dlls that i need here? Were they supposed to be built by the script? If so, where are they placed? 

Here is the options set in the build_win.cmd file

) else (

    :: Change the settings here to match your setup

    :: Change MSVC_VERSION to 12 to use VS 2013

    if NOT DEFINED MSVC_VERSION set MSVC_VERSION=12

    :: Change to 1 to use Ninja generator (builds much faster)

    if NOT DEFINED WITH_NINJA set WITH_NINJA=0

    :: Change to 1 to build caffe without CUDA support

    if NOT DEFINED CPU_ONLY set CPU_ONLY=1

    :: Change to Debug to build Debug. This is only relevant for the Ninja generator the Visual Studio generator will generate both Debug and Release configs

    if NOT DEFINED CMAKE_CONFIG set CMAKE_CONFIG=Release

    :: Change to 1 to build a caffe.dll

    if NOT DEFINED CMAKE_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS set CMAKE_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=0

    :: Change these options for your needs.

    if NOT DEFINED BUILD_PYTHON set BUILD_PYTHON=1

    if NOT DEFINED BUILD_PYTHON_LAYER set BUILD_PYTHON_LAYER=1

    if NOT DEFINED BUILD_MATLAB set BUILD_MATLAB=1

    :: If python is on your path leave this alone

    if NOT DEFINED PYTHON_EXE set PYTHON_EXE=python

    :: Run the tests

    if NOT DEFINED RUN_TESTS set RUN_TESTS=0

    :: Run lint

    if NOT DEFINED RUN_LINT set RUN_LINT=0

    :: Build the install target

    if NOT DEFINED RUN_INSTALL set RUN_INSTALL=1

)

[Paul Delamusica]

I use Anaconda2 64 bit. 

Do I have to build shared libraries in order for the Python interface to work? I am having problems with setting CMAKE_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=1.

Thanks!