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

[Makoto Miyakoshi]

Dear Jonas,

I appreciate you share your solution. Yes, the names of the .dll files are
familiar to me. I remember I needed to find them out from random internet
website (after finding hundreds of spam sites) which took me almost two
hours. In my case I was using win 7 64bit.

Looks like Jason prepared the solution so that users do not need to go
through that process. Very nice!

Makoto

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Jonas Chatel-Goldman <
jonas.chatel.goldman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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-- 
Makoto Miyakoshi
Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego
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