Add hipDNN to your project

Add hipDNN to your project#

2026-03-31

2 min read time

Applies to Linux and Windows

This topic demonstrates how to include hipDNN in a CMake project on a system with ROCm installed.

Prerequisites#

ROCm and hipDNN must be installed along with the dependencies. See hipDNN installation.

Steps#

  1. Add hipdnn_frontend in your CMakeLists.txt file:

    project(my_app LANGUAGES CXX)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)

find_package(hipdnn_frontend CONFIG REQUIRED)

add_executable(my_app main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(my_app PRIVATE hipdnn_frontend)

    • find_package(hipdnn_frontend) transitively brings in hipdnn_backend, hipdnn_data_sdk, and hip, so only one find_package call is needed. HIP runtime APIs (hipMalloc, hipFree, etc.) are available through the transitive hip::host link dependency.

    • If CMake can’t find the packages, set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to the ROCm install location. hipDNN CMake files are installed to <ROCM Install Path>/lib/cmake by default, which CMake might already be searching automatically depending on your system configuration. For example: -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/rocm/lib/cmake.

  2. Include the frontend header to access the hipDNN graph API:

    #include <hipdnn_frontend.hpp>

Next steps#