I am trying to install Theano on my windows desktop and be able to use GPU there.

I am following this tutorial and IT DOES NOT WORK out of box!

I don’t think it is a complete waste of time, but it is sort data mining problem going through that detail tutorial. I only found less than 5 lines of code helpful which is included below.

I have already set up CUDA in visual studio before, so please refer to this post for the work that has already been done.

what I did only for theano:

1. Install Anaconda Python
2. pip install theano

3. conda install mingw libpython

4. Download Microsoft 10 SDK and install
5. Add the following system environment (thanks to this NVIDIA post)
   1. LIB=C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.14393.0\um\x64;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.14393.0\ucrt\x64
   2. INCLUDE=C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.14393.0\ucrt
6. .theanorc.txt[global]
   device = gpu
   floatX = float32[nvcc]
   flags=-LC:\Anaconda\libs
   compiler_bindir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin

   # Thanks to this Stackoverflow post

And here is a screenshot of it is working!

Pay attention to the time.