Update wrapper

[stemann]

@DhairyaLGandhi Can you help with some hints for how to most easily update the wrapper (e.g. for Torch 1.10) ?

It seems there has been a change on the return type from void to int - is there some ocaml generator code somewhere?

I've compared the contents of c37c480 and https://github.com/LaurentMazare/ocaml-torch, and found that the original source for the wrapper seems to have been tag 0.8, i.e. https://github.com/LaurentMazare/ocaml-torch/tree/85da09301df133e9d97a8340c1ce74a13651ca60/src/wrapper

Re-applying the complete set of changes to the build dir. (e.g. stemann@e86f40e) on top of an updated ocaml-torch copy (https://github.com/LaurentMazare/ocaml-torch/tree/a6499811f40282a071179d4306afbbb6023dcc4a/src/wrapper) is not completely problem-free.

Relates to JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#4554

[DhairyaLGandhi]

Absolutely! The cmake Script does need to be updated. Could you say what the issue specifically was? Happy to help get this updated

[stemann]

OK.

I just tried simply cherry picking stemann@e86f40e on top of https://github.com/IHPSystems/Torch.jl/tree/stemann/wrap_torch_1.10 and ran into quite a lot of merge conflicts. So I thought that there might be a small change to https://github.com/LaurentMazare/ocaml-torch/tree/main/src/gen which could make most of the merge conflicts go away :-)

[stemann]

Making some progress - I've re-done the edits to the gen.ml script needed for outputting the current generated C api: https://github.com/IHPSystems/Torch.jl/tree/stemann/build_wrapper/build/wrapper_generator

[DhairyaLGandhi]

Why are some functions excluded? Is there a way to build wrappers for these as well? I also noticed that you'd redefined types in ocaml to match cpp

[stemann]

Which functions do you mean ("functions excluded")?

I just redefined types in ocaml to match the torch_api_generated files that are currently in this repo. - to be sure I could replicate the same process with a newer libtorch.

[ToucheSir]

Presumably "functions excluded" refers to https://github.com/IHPSystems/Torch.jl/blob/stemann/build_wrapper/build/wrapper_generator/bin/main.ml#L8, but my understanding is that list is integral to the build process of ocaml-torch and was implicitly used anyhow for the initial binding generation.

Would it be easier to directly update to the latest binding generator and then try to revamp the Julia API if anything's changed? Also, would using https://github.com/LaurentMazare/tch-rs/tree/main/gen help since it appears to be more up to date than https://github.com/LaurentMazare/ocaml-torch/tree/main/src/gen?

[stemann]

Yes, we should definitely use the up to date tch-rs wrapper generator - just wanted to reproduce the steps for generating 1.4 bindings.

The wrapper generators are identical wrt. generating C code if one compares ocaml-torch for torch 1.10 with tch-rs for torch 1.10.

[stemann]

Planned course of action:

1. Pin Torch_jll dependency to v1.4 (Limit compat of Torch_jll to v1.4 #55)
2. Build/Register Torch_jll v1.10.2+ (just libtorch - without wrapper)

• Build Torch from source JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#4554
• [Torch] Fix deps issue for Torch JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#5551
• [Torch] Limit compat of protoc_jll to minor version JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#5576
• [Torch] Disable building with MKL JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#5583 )

4. Build/Register TorchWrapper_jll - which builds/depends on Torch_jll
5. Update Torch.jl to use TorchWrapper_jll

[stemann]

Finally got around to doing something more wrt. bullet point 4 - cf. #56.

[stemann]

Updated plan:

0. ✅ Fixed compat to enable tests on CI #60
1. ✅ Updated Julia wrapper generator #59 to have that part cleaned-up
2. ✅ Updated C wrapper wrt. Torch v1.10 #61
3. Update Torch_jll recipe in Yggdrasil - it is missing CUDA platform augmentation, I believe. Seems like this was already done.
4. ✅Added TorchCAPI recipe JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#6004 : Build the C wrapper in Yggdrasil, e.g. as TorchCAPI_jll - having Torch_jll as a dependency.
5. Updated for Torch v1.10.2, and NNlib >= v0.8 #64: Update Torch.jl to use the updated C wrapper

[rayegun]

@stemann what can I do to get this through the finish line? Also we'd probably like to go with a recent 2.x release here soon