Binary Packages

Binary releases of Hipacc can be found here.

Requirements

HIPA^cc is a source-to-source compiler based on Clang/LLVM. To build HIPA^cc from source, either the development package of Clang/LLVM and libc++ is required, or the corresponding components from the Clang/LLVM have to be installed manually:

• llvm
• clang
• compiler-rt
• libc++
• libc++abi (on GNU/Linux when using Clang as target compiler)
• polly (optional)

HIPA^cc works only with the release version of Clang/LLVM listed in dependencies.sh, which corresponds to the current Clang/LLVM 8.0 release version.

Installation

The build system of HIPA^cc uses CMake (3.4.3 or later), Git (2.7 or later) and requires installation to an absolute path:

cd hipacc
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`pwd`/release
make && make install

Detailed install instructions for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows can be found in the repository’s INSTALL.md file.

First Run

After building and installing HIPA^cc successfully, you are ready to use HIPA^cc. To verify that everything is working, generate and execute a program using HIPA^cc. Go to your installation directory and change to the sample directory of the application you want to build. Call make cuda. This translates the source file into a version that runs on the GPU using CUDA and executes it. Similarly, the same program can be translated to OpenCL for different device types (opencl-acc, opencl-cpu, opencl-gpu) as well as standard C++ code (cpu). For execution on Android, Renderscript (renderscript) and Filterscript (filterscript) code can be generated.

cd hipacc/build/release
cd samples/0_Point_Operators/Color_Conversion
make cuda

For execution on Android devices, the generated binary is configured to store data in /data/local/tmp. The same directory can be used for the binary itself:

adb shell mkdir -p /data/local/tmp
adb push main_renderscript /data/local/tmp
adb shell /data/local/tmp/main_renderscript