Build and install rocJPEG from source

Build and install rocJPEG from source#

2026-06-03

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Applies to Linux

To build rocJPEG as part of the ROCm Core SDK, see TheRock build instructions. TheRock is the recommended way to build ROCm components from source.

Alternatively, you can build rocJPEG standalone using the following instructions.

Prerequisites#

rocJPEG requires a supported AMD GPU. For more information, see ROCm Core SDK components.

  • HIP runtime and development libraries

  • AMD Clang++ compiler (C++17 required)

  • Libva and VA-API drivers

  • Libdrm (amdgpu)

  • CMake and pkg-config

Build and install#

  1. The rocJPEG source code is available from the ROCm systems GitHub repository. Use sparse checkout when cloning the rocJPEG project. Clone the repo using sparse-checkout.

    git clone --no-checkout --filter=blob:none https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-systems.git
cd rocm-systems
git sparse-checkout init --cone
git sparse-checkout set projects/rocjpeg

  2. Then use git checkout to check out the branch you need.

    git checkout develop
cd projects/rocjpeg

  3. Build and install rocJPEG using the following commands:

    mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../
make -j8
sudo make install

    After installation, the rocJPEG libraries will be copied to /opt/rocm/lib and the rocJPEG header files will be copied to /opt/rocm/include/rocjpeg.

  4. To run the installed CTest-based verification:

    mkdir rocjpeg-test && cd rocjpeg-test
cmake /opt/rocm/share/rocjpeg/test/
ctest -VV

    To test your build, run make test. To run the test with the verbose option, run make test ARGS="-VV".

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