Installation on Windows
- Refer to "Installation and Deployment" in the mxVision User Guide to install the MindX SDK software package.
- You can access the MindX SDK Manager page in either of the following ways:
- If no project is opened, click Customize in the navigation tree on the left of the welcome page. See Figure 1. Then, click All settings in the function pane on the right. On the Settings page, choose Appearance & Behavior > System Settings > MindX SDK in the navigation tree on the left and click Install SDK on the right. The MindX SDK Manager page is displayed.
- Go to the page of the created project on the local Windows host, choose from the top menu bar, and choose in the navigation tree on the left to access the MindX SDK Manager page. MindX SDK Location indicates the default installation path of the software package, which is C:\Users\username\Ascend\mindx_sdk. Click Install SDK. The MindX SDK Manager page is displayed.
- On the MindX SDK Manager page shown in Figure 2, configure the installation directories of the remote CANN Toolkit and MindX SDK software package, and click OK.
- Remote Connection: user and IP address for remote connection. You can add them by clicking
on the right. For details, see SSH Connection Management. - Remote CANN Location: path of the CANN developer kit in the remote environment. Set this parameter to the level of the version number.
- Remote SDK Location: path of the SDK developer kit in the remote environment. Set this parameter to the level of the version number. The IDE synchronizes the include, opensource, python, and samples folders to the local Windows environment. If you select an incorrect level, the installation will fail.
- Local SDK Location: path for synchronizing the SDK folder in the remote environment to the local host. The default installation path is C:\Users\username\Ascend\mindx_sdk.
- Remote Connection: user and IP address for remote connection. You can add them by clicking
- On the MindX SDK Manager page, view the information about the installed SDK, as shown in Figure 3. Click OK to complete the installation.The two icons in the window are described as follows:
: uninstalls an SDK.
: activates an SDK.
Note the following SDK activation restrictions:
- Only one SDK can be activated at a time.
- If a new SDK is installed while an activated SDK is in use, the one in use is deactivated and the newly installed one is automatically activated. If you want to use the original one, you need to manually activate it.
Parent topic: Installing a MindX SDK Software Package