How to install xgboost in Anaconda Python (Windows platform)?

Question

I am a new Python user. I downloaded the latest Anaconda 3 2.4.1 (Python 3.5) from the below link: https://www.continuum.io/downloads

My PC Configurations are: Windo

Answer 1

Open anaconda prompt and run

pip install xgboost

Answer 2

1. Look here https://github.com/Rafi993/xgboost/ for building xgboost on your machine. There are many different varieties of the solution above, but it seems that the version in the link above is the good one. At least that worked for me: I've tested it on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.

2. Then run the following commands in cmd in order to install python bindings:
   cd python-package python setup.py install

3. You might also need a proper mingw (google for tdm-gcc) and the latest setuptools from anaconda.

I hope it will help

Answer 3

Anaconda's website addresses this problem here: https://anaconda.org/anaconda/py-xgboost.

conda install -c anaconda py-xgboost

This fixed the problem for me with no problems.

Answer 4

I figured out easy way to install XgBoost by mix of what is mentioned here.

Step 1: Install gitbash from here and start gitbash.

Step 2: git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost

Step 3: git submodule init

       git submodule update

step 4: alias make='mingw32-make'

step 5: cp make/mingw64.mk config.mk; make -j4

step 6: Goto Anaconda prompt and if you have a conda environment then activate that environment like my was py35 so I activate it by typing activate py35

cd python-package
python setup.py install

step 7: setup the Path in system environment variable to the path where you installed xgboost/python-package.

Answer 5

You can download the xgboost package to your local computer, and you better place the xgboost source file under D:\ or C:\ (ps: download address: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#xgboost, and select "xgboost-0.6-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl",but it is up to your operation system), and you open the Anaconda prompt, type in pip install D:\xgboost-0.6-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl, then you can successful install xgboost into your anaconda

Answer 6

GUYS ITS NOT THAT EASY:- PLEASE FOLLOW BELOW STEP TO GET TO MARK

So here's what I did to finish a 64-bit build on Windows:

Download and install MinGW-64: sourceforge.net /projects/mingw-w64/

On the first screen of the install prompt make sure you set the Architecture to x86_64 and the Threads to win32 I installed to C:\mingw64 (to avoid spaces in the file path) so I added this to my PATH environment variable: C:\ mingw64 \ mingw64 \ bin(Please remove spaces)

I also noticed that the make utility that is included in bin\mingw64 is called mingw32-make so to simplify things I just renamed this to make

Open a Windows command prompt and type gcc. You should see something like "fatal error: no input file"

Next type make. You should see something like "No targets specified and no makefile found"

Type git. If you don't have git, install it and add it to your PATH. These should be all the tools you need to build the xgboost project. To get the source code run these lines:

• cd c:\
• git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost
• cd xgboost
• git submodule init
• git submodule update
• cp make/mingw64.mk config.mk
• make -j4 Note that I ran this part from a Cygwin shell. If you are using the Windows command prompt you should be able to change cp to copy and arrive at the same result. However, if the build fails on you for any reason I would recommend trying again using cygwin.

If the build finishes successfully, you should have a file called xgboost.exe located in the project root. To install the Python package, do the following:

• cd python-package

• python setup.py install Now you should be good to go. Open up Python, and you can import the package with:

• import xgboost as xgb To test the installation, I went ahead and ran the basic_walkthrough.py file that was included in the demo/guide-python folder of the project and didn't get any errors.