catboost-sys

• Download catboost binary from https://github.com/catboost/catboost/releases/tag/v1.0.6.
  • If you are using Linux, download libcatboostmodel.so
  • If you are using MacOS, download libcatboostmodel.dylib
  • Place the file in /usr/lib/
  • Create a soft link to x.x.1, e.g. sudo ln -s libcatboostmodel.so libcatboostmodel.so.1

Introduction

Low level bindings for C API, adapted from https://github.com/catboost/catboost/tree/master/catboost/rust-package.

Major Differences vs official bindings

Major differences are:

• We assume libcatboost shared library is already downloaded (see instructions below)
• Splitting out from the main repo due to the catboost repo being very big
• Most changes are in build.rs, no differences in the APIs
• We keep a copy of the model_interface c_bindings from https://github.com/catboost/catboost/tree/v1.0.6/catboost/libs/model_interface in this repo to simplify things

Build Instructions

• Make sure you have the dependencies for bindgen

apt-get install -y build-essential pkg-config libssl-dev libclang-dev clang cmake

• Download catboost binary from https://github.com/catboost/catboost/releases/tag/v1.0.6.
  • If you are using Linux, download libcatboostmodel.so
  • If you are using MacOS, download libcatboostmodel.dylib
  • Place the file in /usr/lib/
  • Create a soft link to x.x.1, e.g. sudo ln -s libcatboostmodel.so libcatboostmodel.so.1
• Build it with cargo build