[Eeglablist] Getting to run AMICA15 on windows 10 64bits - solving packaging problem with binary file

[Jason Palmer]

Hi Jonas,

 

Thanks for searching out those DLLs, and sorry for the confusion—I have been unsure which if any DLLs were still necessary as I have been trying to compile as much into the binary statically as possible.

 

I put links to fmpich2.dll and libiomp5md.dll on the amica website, and I changed runamica15.m to refer to loadmodout15.m and added a link for the latter to the website:

 

http://sccn.ucsd.edu/~jason/amica_web.html

 

I have tried to make the mac binary self-contained as well, though I haven’t heard back that it is working for others yet. So if anyone finds that the mac binary is still missing something, please let me know. As far as I know, the Ubuntu binary is working ok.

 

Thanks,

Jason

 

 

 

From: eeglablist-bounces at sccn.ucsd.edu [mailto:eeglablist-bounces at sccn.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonas Chatel-Goldman
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 7:59 AM
To: eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu
Subject: [Eeglablist] Getting to run AMICA15 on windows 10 64bits - solving packaging problem with binary file

 

Hi all,

 

This is to share some work-around I went through when trying (and finally managing) to run AMICA on my setup (windows 10 64bits, Matlab R2015a). 


First I downloaded the latest version on Jason's website (http://sccn.ucsd.edu/~jason/amica_web.html) and tested the binary file 'amica15mkl.exe'. This failed outputing error that two lib files are missing: libiomp5md.dll and fmpich2.dll. 

 

Then I browsed the net and found Jason's GitHub (https://github.com/japalmer29/amica) with source code in Fortran. Jason gives some suggestions to compile it so as to create our own binary file... well, the least I can say is that for a naive user like me the whole process is not straightforward! It requires installing the costly Intel Fortran compiler. Though it exists in a free student version (https://software.intel.com/en-us/qualify-for-free-software/student), this is a huge software (>3Gb). Compiling the binary also requires installing mpich2 (http://www.mpich.org/downloads/), for which no simple windows installer is provided in the last versions.

 

I wondered if I could find a simpler approach? Instead of recompiling everything, I tried to simply get the two missing lib file. I could obtain a proper libiomp5md.dll on some library repository website after having downloaded a few corrupted ones. Regarding fmpich2.dll, browsing internet and mpich website I could find a .msi windows installer for an older mpich2 version (http://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/1.4/). Installing this is straightforward and provides fmpich2.dll. Finally, putting the two lib files in the same folder as amica binary and I could run everything smoothly!

 

Voilà, I hope this can help future windows users. If needed, I can provide the lib files directly.

 

Few suggestions and remarks:

- first of all big thanks for the hard work and dedication in providing and sharing code for these advanced signal processing tools!

- available info and files regarding AMICA are scattered in multiple websites with different information. For instance, Jason's website has the latest version but lacks necessary file 'loadmodout12.m'; the Amica plugin is not available from download within EEGlab; only GitHub has all necessary files but without precompiled binaries; lib files necessary to run amica (at least on windows) are not provided anywhere. This makes it not so straightforward  to get to run AMICA...

 

cheers,




Jonas

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