ImportError：DLL加载失败：找不到指定的模块。 Caffe安装

Question

I am trying to install caffe on my windows, I have correctly copy caffe lib under my python site-packages folder and installed protobuf. But I still get the error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\sitecustomize.py", line 699, in runfile
    execfile(filename, namespace)
  File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\sitecustomize.py", line 74, in execfile
    exec(compile(scripttext, filename, 'exec'), glob, loc)
  File "C:/Users/sworr/Desktop/caffe-ssd/examples/ssd/score_ssd_pascal.py", line 2, in <module>
    import caffe
  File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\caffe\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .pycaffe import Net, SGDSolver, NesterovSolver, AdaGradSolver, RMSPropSolver, AdaDeltaSolver, AdamSolver
  File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\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 am using Anaconda 4.0.0 64-bit. Please kindly help.

Answer 1

I solved this probkem by installing caffe using VS 2015 + CUDA 8.0 + Nvidia Titan X (pascal) by following the tutorial given by BLVC.

I think the solution to this issue is building the 'runtest' programs first.

cmake --build . --config %CMAKE_CONFIGURATION% --target install

I am using Anaconda 4.1.12 (64-bit) and windows 7 platform.

There also other matters needs attention:

1. Remember to add the path of dependencies to your PATH environment.

    CAFFE_DEPENDENCIES=%CAFFE_ROOT%\\scripts\\libraries PATH=%PATH%;%CAFFE_ROOT%\\scripts\\libraries;%CAFFE_DEPENDENCIES%\\bin;%CAFFE_DEPENDENCIES%\\lib;%CAFFE_DEPENDENCIES%\\x64\\vc14\\bin 

2. Remember to put cudnn library to cuda installation path.

3. After build the runtest program, copy the caffe package to the Anaconda's site-package path:
   copy %CAFE_ROOT%\\python\\caffe to %ANACONDA2_ROOT%\\Lib\\site-packages\\

Answer 2

I solved this issue. Please do not add caffe lib to site packages. It does not require. Please follow the BLVC installation guide when building the Caffe. Caffe will automatically download related dependencies and copy them to C:/Users/name/.caffe.

When you run the build_win.cmd , it will use those dependencies and create caffe lib inside the build directory.