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Where do I get Visual Studio 15.4 that I need for pyTorch 0.4.1

I have a problem with the following dependency chain:

  • MedicalDetectionToolkit (MDT) needs pyTorch 0.4.1 since in pyTorch 1.0 torch.utils.ffi is depricated
  • pyTorch 0.4.1 needs CUDA 9.0 (does not work with 10.0)
  • CUDA 9.0 does not work with Visual Studio > 15.4
  • Visual Studio 15.4 is not available anywhere, the MSVS installer will install 15.9

The Visual Studio Installer allows to install the "Compiler Tools 15.4" side-by.side, but MDT uses torch.utils.ffi at some point, which just uses the 15.9.

So

How do I install Visual Studio 15.4?

Or

How do I tell torch.utils.ffi to use the 15.4 compiler?

(MedicalDetectionToolkit will not be updated by the author. I may try it, but would like to have a working version first.)

Solution

  • There are the "Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.0)" available on https://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual%20Studio%202017

    You may first have to join the "Essentials" program. After joining the downloads became visible.