How to install Theano on Anaconda Python 2.7 x64 on Windows?

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Franck Dernoncourt picture Franck Dernoncourt · Nov 13, 2015 · Viewed 46.8k times · Source

I wonder how to install Theano on Anaconda Python 2.7 x64 on Windows 7 x64. The Theano website provides some instructions but is not clear as to what is specific to Anaconda.

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Daniel Renshaw picture Daniel Renshaw · Nov 14, 2015

I'm not 100% certain but this may be a minimal set of instructions, but only if you don't want to use a GPU. Getting Theano to use a GPU on Windows is quite a bit more difficult.

  1. Install TDM GCC x64.
  2. Install Anaconda x64.
  3. run conda update conda.
  4. run conda update --all.
  5. run conda install mingw libpython.
  6. Install Theano (how you do this depends on whether you want to interact with the Theano source code or not, and whether you want the "bleeding edge" version, or are happy with the last, but out-of-date major release).
    1. Older version: e.g. pip install Theano.
    2. Bleeding edge version: e.g. pip install --upgrade --no-deps git+git://github.com/Theano/Theano.git (see linked documentation for more options)

If you want multithreading support via OpenMP then things get more complicated.

If you want GPU support things get much more complicated.

The Windows installation instructions in the Theano documentation are fragmented at best, and terribly out of date at worst. If you need more than the basics working on Windows, you'll need to pick your way through to find an approach that works for you.

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