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Fraser Cormack 6306f0fa21 [libclc] Support LLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES when building (#141574)
This commit deprecates the use of LLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS in favour of
LLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES when building libclc.

Alternatively, using -DLLVM_RUNTIME_TARGETS=<triple> combined with
-DRUNTIMES_<triple>_LLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES=libclc also gets pretty far but
fails due to zlib problems building the LLVM utility 'prepare_builtins'.
I'm not sure what's going on there but I don't think it's required at
this stage. More work would be required to support that option.

This does nothing to change how the host tools are found in order to be
used to actually build the libclc libraries.

Note that under such a configuration the final libclc builtin libraries
are placed in `<build>/runtimes/runtimes-bins/libclc/`, which differs
from a non-runtimes build. The installation location remains the same.

Fixes #124013.
2025-06-05 17:56:21 +01:00
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libclc

libclc is an open source implementation of the library requirements of the OpenCL C programming language, as specified by the OpenCL 1.1 Specification. The following sections of the specification impose library requirements:

  • 6.1: Supported Data Types
  • 6.2.3: Explicit Conversions
  • 6.2.4.2: Reinterpreting Types Using as_type() and as_typen()
  • 6.9: Preprocessor Directives and Macros
  • 6.11: Built-in Functions
  • 9.3: Double Precision Floating-Point
  • 9.4: 64-bit Atomics
  • 9.5: Writing to 3D image memory objects
  • 9.6: Half Precision Floating-Point

libclc is intended to be used with the Clang compiler's OpenCL frontend.

libclc is designed to be portable and extensible. To this end, it provides generic implementations of most library requirements, allowing the target to override the generic implementation at the granularity of individual functions.

libclc currently supports PTX, AMDGPU, SPIRV and CLSPV targets, but support for more targets is welcome.

Compiling and installing

(in the following instructions you can use make or ninja)

For an in-tree build, Clang must also be built at the same time:

$ cmake <path-to>/llvm-project/llvm/CMakeLists.txt -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="libclc;clang" \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -G Ninja
$ ninja

Then install:

$ ninja install

Note you can use the DESTDIR Makefile variable to do staged installs.

$ DESTDIR=/path/for/staged/install ninja install

To build out of tree, or in other words, against an existing LLVM build or install:

$ cmake <path-to>/llvm-project/libclc/CMakeLists.txt -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -G Ninja -DLLVM_DIR=$(<path-to>/llvm-config --cmakedir)
$ ninja

Then install as before.

In both cases this will include all supported targets. You can choose which targets are enabled by passing -DLIBCLC_TARGETS_TO_BUILD to CMake. The default is all.

In both cases, the LLVM used must include the targets you want libclc support for (AMDGPU and NVPTX are enabled in LLVM by default). Apart from SPIRV where you do not need an LLVM target but you do need the llvm-spirv tool available. Either build this in-tree, or place it in the directory pointed to by LLVM_TOOLS_BINARY_DIR.

Website

https://libclc.llvm.org/