在mac上安装Xgboost Python库

转载：http://blog.csdn.net/u014365862/article/details/73739857

最近在mac上用到xgboost库，安装时遇到颇多大坑，网上查了很多答案几乎都是win上的问题，没遇到理想的，自己也就摸着石头把几个大坑给填了，总结一下，给后人少走点弯路。

1.错误

倘若直接 pip install xgboost时，会出现Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1的错误提示，
还是乖乖使用Github源代码安装吧~

2.正确的打开方式

• 1.
  

  cd ~
  git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost

  终端输出：
  

  Cloning into 'xgboost'...
  remote: Counting objects: 19864, done.
  remote: Total 19864 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 19863
  Receiving objects: 100% (19864/19864), 6.69 MiB | 76.00 KiB/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (11937/11937), done.
  Submodule 'dmlc-core' (https://github.com/dmlc/dmlc-core) registered for path 'dmlc-core'
  Submodule 'rabit' (https://github.com/dmlc/rabit) registered for path 'rabit'
  Cloning into '/Users/henrylee/xgboost/dmlc-core'...
  Cloning into '/Users/henrylee/xgboost/rabit'...
  Submodule path 'dmlc-core': checked out 'b5bec5481df86e8e6728d8bd80a61d87ef3b2cd5'
  Submodule path 'rabit': checked out 'a764d45cfb438cc9f15cf47ce586c02ff2c65d0f'

可看出gitclone下来的时候回自动clone上其引用库，而直接使用Release包则不会

• 2.
  

  cd xgboost

  注意： 倘若直接使用
  

  cd python-package; sudo python setup.py install

  会出现:
  

  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 19, in <module>
  LIB_PATH = [os.path.relpath(libfile, CURRENT_DIR) for libfile in libpath['find_lib_path']()]
  File "xgboost/libpath.py", line 46, in find_lib_path
  'List of candidates:\n' + ('\n'.join(dll_path)))
  __builtin__.XGBoostLibraryNotFound: Cannot find XGBoost Library in the candidate path, did you install compilers and run build.sh in root path?

  的错误提示，意思是你还是先跑跑文件夹下面的build.sh吧
  注：
  使用Release包会报错/dmlc-core下找不到某文件，这也是不要使用Release包的原因

• 3.
  那我就跑吧

  cd ~/xgboost
  bash build.sh

  这时会出现一大堆C++编译，若无出现则可能像官网所说使用brew安装下GCC——brew install gcc --without-multilib

• 4.
  这个时候就真可以名正而顺地使用

  cd python-package; sudo python setup.py install

  最后会终端出现：
  

  Finished processing dependencies for xgboost==0.6

  代表安装成功了。

最后可以使用pycharm安装了