Installation Instructions

Building

Use the standard CMake build procedure:

mkdir build; cd build
cmake [OPTIONS] .. && cmake --build .

For Microsoft Visual Studio, use cmake --build . --config <build_type> to decide the build type. The possible options are Debug, Release, RelWithDebInfo and MinSizeRel.

Replace [OPTIONS] with desired cmake options for your build. Ginkgo adds the following additional switches to control what is being built:

• -DGINKGO_DEVEL_TOOLS={ON, OFF} sets up the build system for development (requires pre-commit, will also download the clang-format pre-commit hook), default is OFF. The default behavior installs a pre-commit hook, which disables git commits. If it is set to ON, a new pre-commit hook for formatting will be installed (enabling commits again). In both cases the hook may overwrite a user defined pre-commit hook when Ginkgo is used as a submodule.
• -DGINKGO_MIXED_PRECISION={ON, OFF} compiles true mixed-precision kernels instead of converting data on the fly, default is OFF. Enabling this flag increases the library size, but improves performance of mixed-precision kernels.
• -DGINKGO_ENABLE_HALF={ON, OFF} enable half precision support in Ginkgo, default is ON. It is OFF when the compiler is MSVC or MSYS2 system. If compiling is done with the CUDA backend before CUDA 12.2, we only support half precision after compute capability 5.3. CUDA 12.2+ compilers waive the compute capbility limitation.
• -DGINKGO_BUILD_TESTS={ON, OFF} builds Ginkgo's tests (will download googletest), default is ON.
• -DGINKGO_FAST_TESTS={ON, OFF} reduces the input sizes for a few slow tests to speed them up, default is OFF.
• -DGINKGO_BUILD_BENCHMARKS={ON, OFF} builds Ginkgo's benchmarks (will download gflags and nlohmann-json), default is ON.
• -DGINKGO_BUILD_EXAMPLES={ON, OFF} builds Ginkgo's examples, default is ON
• -DGINKGO_BUILD_EXTLIB_EXAMPLE={ON, OFF} builds the interfacing example with deal.II, default is OFF.
• -DGINKGO_BUILD_REFERENCE={ON, OFF} build reference implementations of the kernels, useful for testing, default is ON
• -DGINKGO_BUILD_OMP={ON, OFF} builds optimized OpenMP versions of the kernels, default is ON if the selected C++ compiler supports OpenMP, OFF otherwise.
• -DGINKGO_BUILD_CUDA={ON, OFF} builds optimized cuda versions of the kernels (requires CUDA), default is ON if a CUDA compiler could be detected, OFF otherwise.
• -DGINKGO_BUILD_DPCPP={ON, OFF} is deprecated. Please use GINKGO_BUILD_SYCL instead.
• -DGINKGO_BUILD_SYCL={ON, OFF} builds optimized SYCL versions of the kernels (requires CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to be set to the dpcpp or icpx compiler). The default is ON if CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER is a SYCL compiler, OFF otherwise. Due to some differences in IEEE 754 floating point numberhandling in the Intel SYCL compilers, Ginkgo tests may fail unless compiled with -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-ffp-model=precise
• -DGINKGO_BUILD_HIP={ON, OFF} builds optimized HIP versions of the kernels (requires HIP), default is ON if an installation of HIP could be detected, OFF otherwise.
• -DCMAKE_HIP_ARCHITECTURES="gpuarch1;gpuarch2" the AMDGPU targets to be passed to the compiler. If empty, compiler chooses based on the available GPUs.
• -DGINKGO_BUILD_HWLOC={ON, OFF} builds Ginkgo with HWLOC. Default is OFF.
• -DGINKGO_BUILD_DOC={ON, OFF} creates an HTML version of Ginkgo's documentation from inline comments in the code. The default is OFF.
• -DGINKGO_DOC_GENERATE_EXAMPLES={ON, OFF} generates the documentation of examples in Ginkgo. The default is ON.
• -DGINKGO_DOC_GENERATE_PDF={ON, OFF} generates a PDF version of Ginkgo's documentation from inline comments in the code. The default is OFF.
• -DGINKGO_DOC_GENERATE_DEV={ON, OFF} generates the developer version of Ginkgo's documentation. The default is OFF.
• -DGINKGO_WITH_CLANG_TIDY={ON, OFF} makes Ginkgo call clang-tidy to find programming issues. The path can be manually controlled with the CMake variable -DGINKGO_CLANG_TIDY_PATH=<path>. The default is OFF.
• -DGINKGO_WITH_IWYU={ON, OFF} makes Ginkgo call iwyu to find include issues. The path can be manually controlled with the CMake variable -DGINKGO_IWYU_PATH=<path>. The default is OFF.
• -DGINKGO_CHECK_CIRCULAR_DEPS={ON, OFF} enables compile-time checks for circular dependencies between different Ginkgo libraries and self-sufficient headers. Should only be used for development purposes. The default is OFF.
• -DGINKGO_VERBOSE_LEVEL=integer sets the verbosity of Ginkgo.
  • 0 disables all output in the main libraries,
  • 1 enables a few important messages related to unexpected behavior (default).
• GINKGO_INSTALL_RPATH allows setting any RPATH information when installing the Ginkgo libraries. If this is OFF, the behavior is the same as if all other RPATH flags are set to OFF as well. The default is ON.
• GINKGO_INSTALL_RPATH_ORIGIN adds $ORIGIN (Linux) or @loader_path (MacOS) to the installation RPATH. The default is ON.
• GINKGO_INSTALL_RPATH_DEPENDENCIES adds the dependencies to the installation RPATH. The default is OFF.
• -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=path sets the installation path for make install. The default value is usually something like /usr/local.
• -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=type specifies which configuration will be used for this build of Ginkgo. The default is RELEASE. Supported values are CMake's standard build types such as DEBUG and RELEASE and the Ginkgo specific COVERAGE, ASAN (AddressSanitizer), LSAN (LeakSanitizer), TSAN (ThreadSanitizer) and UBSAN (undefined behavior sanitizer) types.
• -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS={ON, OFF} builds ginkgo as shared libraries (OFF) or as dynamic libraries (ON), default is ON.
• -DGINKGO_JACOBI_FULL_OPTIMIZATIONS={ON, OFF} use all the optimizations for the CUDA Jacobi algorithm. OFF by default. Setting this option to ON may lead to very slow compile time (>20 minutes) for the jacobi_generate_kernels.cu file and high memory usage.
• -DCMAKE_CUDA_HOST_COMPILER=path instructs the build system to explicitly set CUDA's host compiler to the path given as argument. By default, CUDA uses its toolchain's host compiler. Setting this option may help if you're experiencing linking errors due to ABI incompatibilities. This option is supported since CMake 3.8 but documented starting from 3.10.

• -DGINKGO_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=<list> where <list> is a semicolon (;) separated list of architectures. Supported values are:

  • Auto
  • Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, Ampere
  • CODE, CODE(COMPUTE), (COMPUTE)

  Auto will automatically detect the present CUDA-enabled GPU architectures in the system. Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Volta and Ampere will add flags for all architectures of that particular NVIDIA GPU generation. COMPUTE and CODE are placeholders that should be replaced with compute and code numbers (e.g. for compute_70 and sm_70 COMPUTE and CODE should be replaced with 70. Default is Auto. For a more detailed explanation of this option see the ARCHITECTURES specification list section in the documentation of the CudaArchitectureSelector CMake module.

Additionally, the following CMake options have effect on the build process:

• -DCMAKE_EXPORT_PACKAGE_REGISTRY={ON,OFF} if set to ON the build directory will be stored in the current user's CMake package registry.

For example, to build everything (in debug mode), use:

cmake .. -BDebug -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DGINKGO_DEVEL_TOOLS=ON \
    -DGINKGO_BUILD_TESTS=ON -DGINKGO_BUILD_REFERENCE=ON -DGINKGO_BUILD_OMP=ON \
    -DGINKGO_BUILD_CUDA=ON -DGINKGO_BUILD_HIP=ON
cmake --build Debug

NOTE: Ginkgo is known to work with the Unix Makefiles, Ninja, MinGW Makefiles and Visual Studio 16 2019 based generators. Other CMake generators are untested.

Building Ginkgo in Windows

Depending on the configuration settings, some manual work might be required:

• Build Ginkgo with Debug mode: Some Debug build specific issues can appear depending on the machine and environment: When you encounter the error message ld: error: export ordinal too large, add the compilation flag -O1 by adding -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-O1 to the CMake invocation.
• Build Ginkgo in MinGW:\ If encountering the issue cc1plus.exe: out of memory allocating 65536 bytes, please follow the workaround in reference, or trying to compile ginkgo again might work.

Building Ginkgo with HIP support

Ginkgo provides a HIP backend. This allows to compile optimized versions of the kernels for either AMD or NVIDIA GPUs. The CMake configuration step will try to auto-detect the presence of HIP either at /opt/rocm/hip or at the path specified by HIP_PATH as a CMake parameter (-DHIP_PATH=) or environment variable (export HIP_PATH=), unless -DGINKGO_BUILD_HIP=ON/OFF is set explicitly.

Changing the paths to search for HIP and other packages

All HIP installation paths can be configured through the use of environment variables or CMake variables. This way of configuring the paths is currently imposed by the HIP tool suite. The variables are the following:

• CMake -DROCM_PATH= or environment export ROCM_PATH=: sets the ROCM installation path. The default value is /opt/rocm/.
• CMake -DHIP_CLANG_PATH or environment export HIP_CLANG_PATH=: sets the HIP compatible clang binary path. The default value is ${ROCM_PATH}/llvm/bin.
• CMake -DHIP_PATH= or environment export HIP_PATH=: sets the HIP installation path. The default value is ${ROCM_PATH}/hip.
• CMake -DHIPBLAS_PATH= or environment export HIPBLAS_PATH=: sets the hipBLAS installation path. The default value is ${ROCM_PATH}/hipblas.
• CMake -DHIPSPARSE_PATH= or environment export HIPSPARSE_PATH=: sets the hipSPARSE installation path. The default value is ${ROCM_PATH}/hipsparse.
• CMake -DHIPFFT_PATH= or environment export HIPFFT_PATH=: sets the hipFFT installation path. The default value is ${ROCM_PATH}/hipfft.
• CMake -DROCRAND_PATH= or environment export ROCRAND_PATH=: sets the rocRAND installation path. The default value is ${ROCM_PATH}/rocrand.
• CMake -DHIPRAND_PATH= or environment export HIPRAND_PATH=: sets the hipRAND installation path. The default value is ${ROCM_PATH}/hiprand.
• environment export CUDA_PATH=: where hipcc can find CUDA if it is not in the default /usr/local/cuda path.

HIP platform detection of AMD and NVIDIA

Ginkgo relies on CMake to decide which compiler to use for HIP. To choose nvcc instead of the default ROCm clang++, set the corresponding environment variable:

export HIPCXX=nvcc

Note that this option is currently not being tested in our CI pipelines.

Third party libraries and packages

Ginkgo relies on third party packages in different cases. These third party packages can be turned off by disabling the relevant options.

• GINKGO_BUILD_TESTS=ON: Our tests are implemented with Google Test;
• GINKGO_BUILD_BENCHMARKS=ON: For argument management we use gflags and for JSON parsing we use nlohmann-json;
• GINKGO_BUILD_HWLOC=ON: hwloc to detect and control cores and devices.
• GINKGO_BUILD_HWLOC=ON and GINKGO_BUILD_TESTS=ON: libnuma is required when testing the functions provided through MachineTopology.
• GINKGO_BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON: OpenCV is required for some examples, they are disabled when OpenCV is not available.
• GINKGO_BUILD_DOC=ON: doxygen is required to build the documentation and additionally graphviz is required to build the class hierarchy graphs.
• METIS is required when using the NestedDissection reordering functionality. If METIS is not found, the functionality is disabled.
• PAPI (>= 7.1.0) is required when using the Papi logger. If PAPI is not found, the functionality is disabled.

Ginkgo attempts to use pre-installed versions of these package if they match version requirements using find_package. Otherwise, the configuration step will download the files for each of the packages GTest, gflags, nlohmann-json and hwloc and build them internally.

Note that, if the external packages were not installed to the default location, the CMake option -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<path-list> needs to be set to the semicolon (;) separated list of install paths of these external packages. For more Information, see the CMake documentation for CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH for details.

For convenience, the options GINKGO_INSTALL_RPATH[_.*] can be used to bind the installed Ginkgo shared libraries to the path of its dependencies.

Installing Ginkgo

To install Ginkgo into the specified folder, execute the following command in the build folder

make install

If the installation prefix (see CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX) is not writable for your user, e.g. when installing Ginkgo system-wide, it might be necessary to prefix the call with sudo.

After the installation, CMake can find ginkgo with find_package(Ginkgo). An example can be found in the test_install.