ollama: Unable to compile on windows using standard go installation

Hi folks! We’ve recently updated how Ollama is built and it seems to build okay on Windows in our “lab” 😃. Note: GPU support is still work a in progress, but we’re on it. We’ve recently fixed quite a few build and other minor issues with building on Windows, so it’s worth a try again if you’re looking to hack on Ollama.

The easiest way to get started right now would be:

• Install Go 1.21: https://go.dev/
• Install CMake: https://cmake.org/
• Install Microsoft Visual C++ compiler from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

Then:

go generate ./...
go build .
./ollama.exe

Will close this for now but do please re-open (and @me!) if you’re still having issues.

Okay @Gregory-Ledray, @mxyng and @tomzorz following Solution (maybe you can put it into the readme)

• Install gcc from here winlibs, scroll down to Download, use the topmost download, for me GCC 13.2.0 (with POSIX threads). Extract and add the bin folder to the $PATH
• In the ollama cloned repro then:

$env:CGO_ENABLED = 1
go build -ldflags '-linkmode external -extldflags "-static"' .

That did the trick for me

@valerie-makes yes that’s correct, the binary will be bigger however and/or slower since fewer optimizations applied. You can view your build as a “development” build and the “special configuration” is the “production” build

Here’s the full updated llm/llama-util.h file, based on @kbimplis’s comment and the v0.0.15 tag:

/**
 * llama.cpp - git 3ebb00935f3f0522b75df49c2769ab1774b91380
 *
 * MIT License
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2023 Georgi Gerganov
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
 * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
 * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 *
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
 * copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 *
 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
 * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
 * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
 * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
 * SOFTWARE.
 */

// Internal header to be included only by llama.cpp.
// Contains wrappers around OS interfaces.

#ifndef LLAMA_UTIL_H
#define LLAMA_UTIL_H

#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdint>
#include <cerrno>
#include <cstring>
#include <cstdarg>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <climits>

#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <stdexcept>

#ifdef __has_include
    #if __has_include(<unistd.h>)
        #include <unistd.h>
        #if defined(_POSIX_MAPPED_FILES)
            #include <sys/mman.h>
        #endif
        #if defined(_POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE)
            #include <sys/resource.h>
        #endif
    #endif
#endif

#if defined(_WIN32)
    #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
    #ifndef NOMINMAX
        #define NOMINMAX
    #endif
    #include <windows.h>
    #include <io.h>
    #include <stdio.h> // for _fseeki64

    #pragma comment(lib,"kernel32.lib")
    typedef struct _WIN32_MEMORY_RANGE_ENTRY {
        void* VirtualAddress;
        size_t NumberOfBytes;
    } WIN32_MEMORY_RANGE_ENTRY, *PWIN32_MEMORY_RANGE_ENTRY;
#endif

#define LLAMA_ASSERT(x) \
    do { \
        if (!(x)) { \
            fprintf(stderr, "LLAMA_ASSERT: %s:%d: %s\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, #x); \
            abort(); \
        } \
    } while (0)

#ifdef __GNUC__
#ifdef __MINGW32__
__attribute__((format(gnu_printf, 1, 2)))
#else
__attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2)))
#endif
#endif
static std::string format(const char * fmt, ...) {
    va_list ap, ap2;
    va_start(ap, fmt);
    va_copy(ap2, ap);
    int size = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, ap);
    LLAMA_ASSERT(size >= 0 && size < INT_MAX);
    std::vector<char> buf(size + 1);
    int size2 = vsnprintf(buf.data(), size + 1, fmt, ap2);
    LLAMA_ASSERT(size2 == size);
    va_end(ap2);
    va_end(ap);
    return std::string(buf.data(), size);
}

struct llama_file {
    // use FILE * so we don't have to re-open the file to mmap
    FILE * fp;
    size_t size;

    llama_file(const char * fname, const char * mode) {
        fp = std::fopen(fname, mode);
        if (fp == NULL) {
            throw std::runtime_error(format("failed to open %s: %s", fname, strerror(errno)));
        }
        seek(0, SEEK_END);
        size = tell();
        seek(0, SEEK_SET);
    }

    size_t tell() const {
#ifdef _WIN32
        __int64 ret = _ftelli64(fp);
#else
        long ret = std::ftell(fp);
#endif
        LLAMA_ASSERT(ret != -1); // this really shouldn't fail
        return (size_t) ret;
    }

    void seek(size_t offset, int whence) {
#ifdef _WIN32
        int ret = _fseeki64(fp, (__int64) offset, whence);
#else
        int ret = std::fseek(fp, (long) offset, whence);
#endif
        LLAMA_ASSERT(ret == 0); // same
    }

    void read_raw(void * ptr, size_t len) const {
        if (len == 0) {
            return;
        }
        errno = 0;
        std::size_t ret = std::fread(ptr, len, 1, fp);
        if (ferror(fp)) {
            throw std::runtime_error(format("read error: %s", strerror(errno)));
        }
        if (ret != 1) {
            throw std::runtime_error(std::string("unexpectedly reached end of file"));
        }
    }

    std::uint32_t read_u32() {
        std::uint32_t ret;
        read_raw(&ret, sizeof(ret));
        return ret;
    }

    std::string read_string(std::uint32_t len) {
        std::vector<char> chars(len);
        read_raw(chars.data(), len);
        return std::string(chars.data(), len);
    }

    void write_raw(const void * ptr, size_t len) const {
        if (len == 0) {
            return;
        }
        errno = 0;
        size_t ret = std::fwrite(ptr, len, 1, fp);
        if (ret != 1) {
            throw std::runtime_error(format("write error: %s", strerror(errno)));
        }
    }

    void write_u32(std::uint32_t val) {
        write_raw(&val, sizeof(val));
    }

    ~llama_file() {
        if (fp) {
            std::fclose(fp);
        }
    }
};

// llama_context_data
struct llama_data_context {
    virtual void write(const void * src, size_t size) = 0;
    virtual size_t get_size_written() = 0;
    virtual ~llama_data_context() = default;
};

struct llama_data_buffer_context : llama_data_context {
    uint8_t* ptr;
    size_t size_written = 0;

    llama_data_buffer_context(uint8_t * p) : ptr(p) {}

    void write(const void * src, size_t size) override {
        memcpy(ptr, src, size);
        ptr += size;
        size_written += size;
    }

    size_t get_size_written() override {
        return size_written;
    }
};

struct llama_data_file_context : llama_data_context {
    llama_file* file;
    size_t size_written = 0;

    llama_data_file_context(llama_file * f) : file(f) {}

    void write(const void * src, size_t size) override {
        file->write_raw(src, size);
        size_written += size;
    }

    size_t get_size_written() override {
        return size_written;
    }
};

#if defined(_WIN32)
static std::string llama_format_win_err(DWORD err) {
    LPSTR buf;
    size_t size = FormatMessageA(FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM | FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS,
                                 NULL, err, MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), (LPSTR)&buf, 0, NULL);
    if (!size) {
        return "FormatMessageA failed";
    }
    std::string ret(buf, size);
    LocalFree(buf);
    return ret;
}
#endif

struct llama_mmap {
    void * addr;
    size_t size;

    llama_mmap(const llama_mmap &) = delete;

#ifdef _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
    static constexpr bool SUPPORTED = true;

    llama_mmap(struct llama_file * file, size_t prefetch = (size_t) -1 /* -1 = max value */, bool numa = false) {
        size = file->size;
        int fd = fileno(file->fp);
        int flags = MAP_SHARED;
        // prefetch/readahead impairs performance on NUMA systems
        if (numa) { prefetch = 0; }
#ifdef __linux__
        if (prefetch >= file->size) { flags |= MAP_POPULATE; }
#endif
        addr = mmap(NULL, file->size, PROT_READ, flags, fd, 0);
        if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
            throw std::runtime_error(format("mmap failed: %s", strerror(errno)));
        }

        if (prefetch > 0) {
            // Advise the kernel to preload the mapped memory
            if (madvise(addr, std::min(file->size, prefetch), MADV_WILLNEED)) {
                fprintf(stderr, "warning: madvise(.., MADV_WILLNEED) failed: %s\n",
                        strerror(errno));
            }
        }
        if (numa) {
            // advise the kernel not to use readahead
            // (because the next page might not belong on the same node)
            if (madvise(addr, file->size, MADV_RANDOM)) {
                fprintf(stderr, "warning: madvise(.., MADV_RANDOM) failed: %s\n",
                        strerror(errno));
            }
        }
    }

    ~llama_mmap() {
        munmap(addr, size);
    }
#elif defined(_WIN32)
    static constexpr bool SUPPORTED = true;

    llama_mmap(struct llama_file * file, bool prefetch = true, bool numa = false) {
        (void) numa;

        size = file->size;

        HANDLE hFile = (HANDLE) _get_osfhandle(_fileno(file->fp));

        HANDLE hMapping = CreateFileMappingA(hFile, NULL, PAGE_READONLY, 0, 0, NULL);
        DWORD error = GetLastError();

        if (hMapping == NULL) {
            throw std::runtime_error(format("CreateFileMappingA failed: %s", llama_format_win_err(error).c_str()));
        }

        addr = MapViewOfFile(hMapping, FILE_MAP_READ, 0, 0, 0);
        error = GetLastError();
        CloseHandle(hMapping);

        if (addr == NULL) {
            throw std::runtime_error(format("MapViewOfFile failed: %s", llama_format_win_err(error).c_str()));
        }

        if (prefetch) {
            // The PrefetchVirtualMemory API is only present on Windows 8 and above, so we
            // will dynamically load it using GetProcAddress.
            BOOL (WINAPI *pPrefetchVirtualMemory) (HANDLE, ULONG_PTR, PWIN32_MEMORY_RANGE_ENTRY, ULONG);
            HMODULE hKernel32;

            // This call is guaranteed to succeed.
            hKernel32 = GetModuleHandleW(L"kernel32.dll");

            // This call may fail if on a pre-Win8 system.
            pPrefetchVirtualMemory = reinterpret_cast<decltype(pPrefetchVirtualMemory)> (GetProcAddress(hKernel32, "PrefetchVirtualMemory"));

            if (pPrefetchVirtualMemory) {
                // Advise the kernel to preload the mapped memory.
                WIN32_MEMORY_RANGE_ENTRY range;
                range.VirtualAddress = addr;
                range.NumberOfBytes = (SIZE_T)size;
                if (!pPrefetchVirtualMemory(GetCurrentProcess(), 1, &range, 0)) {
                    fprintf(stderr, "warning: PrefetchVirtualMemory failed: %s\n",
                            llama_format_win_err(GetLastError()).c_str());
                }
            }
        }
    }

    ~llama_mmap() {
        if (!UnmapViewOfFile(addr)) {
            fprintf(stderr, "warning: UnmapViewOfFile failed: %s\n",
                    llama_format_win_err(GetLastError()).c_str());
        }
    }
#else
    static constexpr bool SUPPORTED = false;

    llama_mmap(struct llama_file *, bool prefetch = true, bool numa = false) {
        (void) prefetch;
        (void) numa;

        throw std::runtime_error(std::string("mmap not supported"));
    }
#endif
};

// Represents some region of memory being locked using mlock or VirtualLock;
// will automatically unlock on destruction.
struct llama_mlock {
    void * addr = NULL;
    size_t size = 0;
    bool failed_already = false;

    llama_mlock() {}
    llama_mlock(const llama_mlock &) = delete;

    ~llama_mlock() {
        if (size) {
            raw_unlock(addr, size);
        }
    }

    void init(void * ptr) {
        LLAMA_ASSERT(addr == NULL && size == 0);
        addr = ptr;
    }

    void grow_to(size_t target_size) {
        LLAMA_ASSERT(addr);
        if (failed_already) {
            return;
        }
        size_t granularity = lock_granularity();
        target_size = (target_size + granularity - 1) & ~(granularity - 1);
        if (target_size > size) {
            if (raw_lock((uint8_t *) addr + size, target_size - size)) {
                size = target_size;
            } else {
                failed_already = true;
            }
        }
    }

#ifdef _POSIX_MEMLOCK_RANGE
    static constexpr bool SUPPORTED = true;

    size_t lock_granularity() {
        return (size_t) sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
    }

    #ifdef __APPLE__
        #define MLOCK_SUGGESTION \
            "Try increasing the sysctl values 'vm.user_wire_limit' and 'vm.global_user_wire_limit' and/or " \
            "decreasing 'vm.global_no_user_wire_amount'.  Also try increasing RLIMIT_MLOCK (ulimit -l).\n"
    #else
        #define MLOCK_SUGGESTION \
            "Try increasing RLIMIT_MLOCK ('ulimit -l' as root).\n"
    #endif

    bool raw_lock(const void * addr, size_t size) {
        if (!mlock(addr, size)) {
            return true;
        } else {
            char* errmsg = std::strerror(errno);
            bool suggest = (errno == ENOMEM);

            // Check if the resource limit is fine after all
            struct rlimit lock_limit;
            if (suggest && getrlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, &lock_limit))
                suggest = false;
            if (suggest && (lock_limit.rlim_max > lock_limit.rlim_cur + size))
                suggest = false;

            fprintf(stderr, "warning: failed to mlock %zu-byte buffer (after previously locking %zu bytes): %s\n%s",
                    size, this->size, errmsg, suggest ? MLOCK_SUGGESTION : "");
            return false;
        }
    }

    #undef MLOCK_SUGGESTION

    void raw_unlock(void * addr, size_t size) {
        if (munlock(addr, size)) {
            fprintf(stderr, "warning: failed to munlock buffer: %s\n", std::strerror(errno));
        }
    }
#elif defined(_WIN32)
    static constexpr bool SUPPORTED = true;

    size_t lock_granularity() {
        SYSTEM_INFO si;
        GetSystemInfo(&si);
        return (size_t) si.dwPageSize;
    }

    bool raw_lock(void * ptr, size_t len) {
        for (int tries = 1; ; tries++) {
            if (VirtualLock(ptr, len)) {
                return true;
            }
            if (tries == 2) {
                fprintf(stderr, "warning: failed to VirtualLock %zu-byte buffer (after previously locking %zu bytes): %s\n",
                    len, size, llama_format_win_err(GetLastError()).c_str());
                return false;
            }

            // It failed but this was only the first try; increase the working
            // set size and try again.
            SIZE_T min_ws_size, max_ws_size;
            if (!GetProcessWorkingSetSize(GetCurrentProcess(), &min_ws_size, &max_ws_size)) {
                fprintf(stderr, "warning: GetProcessWorkingSetSize failed: %s\n",
                        llama_format_win_err(GetLastError()).c_str());
                return false;
            }
            // Per MSDN: "The maximum number of pages that a process can lock
            // is equal to the number of pages in its minimum working set minus
            // a small overhead."
            // Hopefully a megabyte is enough overhead:
            size_t increment = len + 1048576;
            // The minimum must be <= the maximum, so we need to increase both:
            min_ws_size += increment;
            max_ws_size += increment;
            if (!SetProcessWorkingSetSize(GetCurrentProcess(), min_ws_size, max_ws_size)) {
                fprintf(stderr, "warning: SetProcessWorkingSetSize failed: %s\n",
                        llama_format_win_err(GetLastError()).c_str());
                return false;
            }
        }
    }

    void raw_unlock(void * ptr, size_t len) {
        if (!VirtualUnlock(ptr, len)) {
            fprintf(stderr, "warning: failed to VirtualUnlock buffer: %s\n",
                    llama_format_win_err(GetLastError()).c_str());
        }
    }
#else
    static constexpr bool SUPPORTED = false;

    size_t lock_granularity() {
        return (size_t) 65536;
    }

    bool raw_lock(const void * addr, size_t len) {
        fprintf(stderr, "warning: mlock not supported on this system\n");
        return false;
    }

    void raw_unlock(const void * addr, size_t len) {}
#endif
};

// Replacement for std::vector<uint8_t> that doesn't require zero-initialization.
struct llama_buffer {
    uint8_t * addr = NULL;
    size_t size = 0;

    llama_buffer() = default;

    void resize(size_t len) {
#ifdef GGML_USE_METAL
        free(addr);
        int result = posix_memalign((void **) &addr, getpagesize(), len);
        if (result == 0) {
            memset(addr, 0, len);
        }
        else {
            addr = NULL;
        }
#else
        delete[] addr;
        addr = new uint8_t[len];
#endif
        size = len;
    }

    ~llama_buffer() {
#ifdef GGML_USE_METAL
        free(addr);
#else
        delete[] addr;
#endif
        addr = NULL;
    }

    // disable copy and move
    llama_buffer(const llama_buffer&) = delete;
    llama_buffer(llama_buffer&&) = delete;
    llama_buffer& operator=(const llama_buffer&) = delete;
    llama_buffer& operator=(llama_buffer&&) = delete;
};

#ifdef GGML_USE_CUBLAS
#include "ggml-cuda.h"
struct llama_ctx_buffer {
    uint8_t * addr = NULL;
    bool is_cuda;
    size_t size = 0;

    llama_ctx_buffer() = default;

    void resize(size_t size) {
        free();

        addr = (uint8_t *) ggml_cuda_host_malloc(size);
        if (addr) {
            is_cuda = true;
        }
        else {
            // fall back to pageable memory
            addr = new uint8_t[size];
            is_cuda = false;
        }
        this->size = size;
    }

    void free() {
        if (addr) {
            if (is_cuda) {
                ggml_cuda_host_free(addr);
            }
            else {
                delete[] addr;
            }
        }
        addr = NULL;
    }

    ~llama_ctx_buffer() {
        free();
    }

    // disable copy and move
    llama_ctx_buffer(const llama_ctx_buffer&) = delete;
    llama_ctx_buffer(llama_ctx_buffer&&) = delete;
    llama_ctx_buffer& operator=(const llama_ctx_buffer&) = delete;
    llama_ctx_buffer& operator=(llama_ctx_buffer&&) = delete;
};
#else
typedef llama_buffer llama_ctx_buffer;
#endif

#endif

I also needed to install GCC as per @FairyTail2000’s comment, but I didn’t need to build in any special way. I just ran:

go build .

as described in the docs, without needing to specify any additional environment variables.

@dcasota you need to manually create a .ollama folder in your users directory. Easiest would be to open a terminal and type “mkdir .ollama” or use the explorer in your home dir to create the directory

I had to edit llm/llama-util.h and add ` #ifdef _WIN32

#pragma comment(lib,“kernel32.lib”)

typedef struct _WIN32_MEMORY_RANGE_ENTRY {

void* VirtualAddress;

size_t NumberOfBytes;

} WIN32_MEMORY_RANGE_ENTRY, *PWIN32_MEMORY_RANGE_ENTRY;

#endif

` to make it work along with FairyTail2000’s instructions

` $env:CGO_ENABLED = 1

go build -ldflags ‘-linkmode external -extldflags “-static”’ .

`

(got the idea from https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/890 )