---
license: mit
tags:
- yue2
- music-generation
- ggml
- windows
---

# yue2.cpp, the native port of YuE2 (built for Windows with CUDA)

The native port of YuE2 (yue2.cpp) built for Windows with CUDA, for Audante's own Windows receiver.

## What this is

`yue2-cpp-windows.zip` holds the program (`yue-server.exe`), the tools around it (`quantize.exe` and
the others), the port's own runtime (the `ggml` DLLs) and the licence texts. Unpacked, it is the engine of
the model variant `yue2-gguf-cuda-windows` in Audante's catalog.

## How it was built

From the source in Audante's own repository (`Audante/yue2-cpp-src`, the trees of the pinned commits of
yue2.cpp and its ggml submodule), with `scripts/build-yue2-cpp.ps1` from the Audante repository: MSVC
with the Ninja generator, the CUDA toolkit assembled from NVIDIA's redistributable archives
(`scripts/build-yue-cuda-toolkit.ps1`).

The build machine: Windows 11 mit NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti (8 GB). The CUDA architectures: 86-real.

## Changes

None to the source: the archive is the build of the pinned commits. The patch on the pinned commit
(the UTF-8 code page on Windows) is part of that commit.

**The CUDA runtime is not in this archive.** `cudart64_12.dll`, `cublas64_12.dll` and
`cublasLt64_12.dll` come from NVIDIA's redistributable archives and are fetched by the receiver when it
installs the engine (the addresses and checksums are in `redistrib_12.9.1.json` in `Audante/yue2-cpp-src`).
NVIDIA allows these files to travel with the program. Without them Windows ends the program at the
start with STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND (0xC0000135) and no message.

**The port's own runtime is in this archive**: the `ggml` DLLs are part of Audante's build of the port
(MIT), not a third-party component. Without them the program does not start either, with the same error.

## Licence

MIT, as the port. See `LICENSE` for the text and `NOTICE` for the authors.

The weights the program reads are a separate matter and are not in this repository: they are CC BY-NC
4.0 and live in Audante's own folders.