Installing pre-built packages

HIP can be easily installed using pre-built binary packages using the package manager for your platform.

Prerequisites

HIP code can be developed either on AMD ROCm platform using HIP-Clang compiler, or a CUDA platform with nvcc installed.

AMD Platform

 sudo apt install mesa-common-dev
 sudo apt install clang
 sudo apt install comgr
 sudo apt-get -y install rocm-dkms

Public link for Rocm installation https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Installation_Guide/Installation-Guide.html

HIP-Clang is the compiler for compiling HIP programs on AMD platform.

HIP-Clang can be built manually:

 git clone -b rocm-3.9.x https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/llvm-project.git
 cd llvm-project
 mkdir -p build && cd build
 cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/rocm/llvm -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=1 -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="AMDGPU;X86" -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;lld;compiler-rt" ../llvm
 make -j
 sudo make install

Rocm device library can be manually built as following,

 export PATH=/opt/rocm/llvm/bin:$PATH
 git clone -b rocm-3.9.x https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-Device-Libs.git
 cd ROCm-Device-Libs
 mkdir -p build && cd build
 CC=clang CXX=clang++ cmake -DLLVM_DIR=/opt/rocm/llvm -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DLLVM_ENABLE_WERROR=1 -DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=1 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/rocm ..
 make -j
 sudo make install

NVIDIA Platform

HIP-nvcc is the compiler for HIP program compilation on NVIDIA platform.

Add the ROCm package server to your system as per the OS-specific guide available here.
Install the "hip-nvcc" package. This will install CUDA SDK and the HIP porting layer.
1 apt-get install hip-nvcc
Default paths and environment variables:
- By default HIP looks for CUDA SDK in /usr/local/cuda (can be overriden by setting CUDA_PATH env variable).
- By default HIP is installed into /opt/rocm/hip (can be overridden by setting HIP_PATH environment variable).
- Optionally, consider adding /opt/rocm/bin to your path to make it easier to use the tools.

Building HIP from source

Build ROCclr

ROCclr is defined on AMD platform that HIP use Radeon Open Compute Common Language Runtime (ROCclr), which is a virtual device interface that HIP runtimes interact with different backends. See https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/ROCclr

 git clone -b rocm-3.9.x https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/ROCclr.git
 export ROCclr_DIR="$(readlink -f ROCclr)"
 git clone -b rocm-3.9.x https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime.git
 export OPENCL_DIR="$(readlink -f ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime)"
 cd "$ROCclr_DIR"
 mkdir -p build;cd build
 cmake -DOPENCL_DIR="$OPENCL_DIR" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/rocm/rocclr ..
 make -j
 sudo make install (this is optional)

Build HIP

 git clone -b rocm-3.9.x https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP.git
 export HIP_DIR="$(readlink -f HIP)"
 cd "$HIP_DIR"
 mkdir -p build; cd build
 cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DHIP_COMPILER=clang -DHIP_PLATFORM=rocclr -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$ROCclr_DIR/build;/opt/rocm/" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=</where/to/install/hip> ..
 make -j
 sudo make install

Default paths and environment variables

By default HIP looks for HSA in /opt/rocm/hsa (can be overridden by setting HSA_PATH environment variable).
By default HIP is installed into /opt/rocm/hip (can be overridden by setting HIP_PATH environment variable).
By default HIP looks for clang in /opt/rocm/llvm/bin (can be overridden by setting HIP_CLANG_PATH environment variable)
By default HIP looks for device library in /opt/rocm/lib (can be overridden by setting DEVICE_LIB_PATH environment variable).
Optionally, consider adding /opt/rocm/bin to your PATH to make it easier to use the tools.
Optionally, set HIPCC_VERBOSE=7 to output the command line for compilation.

After installation, make sure HIP_PATH is pointed to /where/to/install/hip

Verify your installation

Run hipconfig (instructions below assume default installation path) :

1 /opt/rocm/bin/hipconfig --full

Compile and run the square sample.