Building and installing rocAL from source code

Before building and installing rocAL, ensure ROCm is installed.

The rocAL source code is available from ROCm/rocAL. The default develop branch is intended for developers who want to contribute to the rocAL project or who want to preview new features.

rocAL supports the HIP backend.

You can choose to use the rocAL-setup.py setup script to install most prerequisites.

Note

TurboJPEG must be installed manually on SLES.

To use FFmpeg on SLES and RedHat, the FFmpeg-dev package must be installed manually.

To build and install rocAL, create the build directory under the rocAL root directory. Change directory to build:

mkdir build
cd build

Use cmake to generate a makefile. Use the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX directive to set the installation directory. For example:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/rocAL/

Run make to build and install:

make -j8
sudo make install