Building and Installing

Building and Installing#

Prerequisites#

hipSPARSE requires a ROCm enabled platform.

Installing pre-built packages#

hipSPARSE can be installed from AMD ROCm repository. For detailed instructions on how to set up ROCm on different platforms, see the AMD ROCm Platform Installation Guide for Linux.

hipSPARSE can be installed on e.g. Ubuntu using

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install hipsparse

Once installed, hipSPARSE can be used just like any other library with a C API. The header file will need to be included in the user code in order to make calls into hipSPARSE, and the hipSPARSE shared library will become link-time and run-time dependent for the user application.

Building hipSPARSE from source#

Building from source is not necessary, as hipSPARSE can be used after installing the pre-built packages as described above. If desired, the following instructions can be used to build hipSPARSE from source. Furthermore, the following compile-time dependencies must be met

Download hipSPARSE#

The hipSPARSE source code is available at the hipSPARSE GitHub page. Download the master branch using:

$ git clone -b master https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/hipSPARSE.git
$ cd hipSPARSE

Below are steps to build different packages of the library, including dependencies and clients. It is recommended to install hipSPARSE using the install.sh script.

Using install.sh to build hipSPARSE with dependencies#

The following table lists common uses of install.sh to build dependencies + library.

Command

Description

./install.sh -h

Print help information.

./install.sh -d

Build dependencies and library in your local directory. The -d flag only needs to be used once. For subsequent invocations of install.sh it is not necessary to rebuild the dependencies.

./install.sh

Build library in your local directory. It is assumed dependencies are available.

./install.sh -i

Build library, then build and install hipSPARSE package in /opt/rocm/hipsparse. You will be prompted for sudo access. This will install for all users.

Using install.sh to build hipSPARSE with dependencies and clients#

The client contains example code and unit tests. Common uses of install.sh to build them are listed in the table below.

Command

Description

./install.sh -h

Print help information.

./install.sh -dc

Build dependencies, library and client in your local directory. The -d flag only needs to be used once. For subsequent invocations of install.sh it is not necessary to rebuild the dependencies.

./install.sh -c

Build library and client in your local directory. It is assumed dependencies are available.

./install.sh -idc

Build library, dependencies and client, then build and install hipSPARSE package in /opt/rocm/hipsparse. You will be prompted for sudo access. This will install for all users.

./install.sh -ic

Build library and client, then build and install hipSPARSE package in opt/rocm/hipsparse. You will be prompted for sudo access. This will install for all users.

Using individual commands to build hipSPARSE#

CMake 3.5 or later is required in order to build hipSPARSE.

hipSPARSE can be built using the following commands:

# Create and change to build directory
$ mkdir -p build/release ; cd build/release

# Default install path is /opt/rocm, use -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path> to adjust it
$ cmake ../..

# Compile hipSPARSE library
$ make -j$(nproc)

# Install hipSPARSE to /opt/rocm
$ make install

GoogleTest is required in order to build hipSPARSE clients.

hipSPARSE with dependencies and clients can be built using the following commands:

# Install googletest
$ mkdir -p build/release/deps ; cd build/release/deps
$ cmake ../../../deps
$ make -j$(nproc) install

# Change to build directory
$ cd ..

# Default install path is /opt/rocm, use -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path> to adjust it
$ cmake ../.. -DBUILD_CLIENTS_TESTS=ON -DBUILD_CLIENTS_SAMPLES=ON

# Compile hipSPARSE library
$ make -j$(nproc)

# Install hipSPARSE to /opt/rocm
$ make install

Simple Test#

You can test the installation by running one of the hipSPARSE examples, after successfully compiling the library with clients.

# Navigate to clients binary directory
$ cd hipSPARSE/build/release/clients/staging

# Execute hipSPARSE example
$ ./example_csrmv 1000

Supported Targets#

Currently, hipSPARSE is supported under the following operating systems

  • Ubuntu 20.04

  • Ubuntu 22.04

  • RHEL 8

  • RHEL 9

  • SLES 15

To compile and run hipSPARSE, AMD ROCm Platform is required.

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