Overview

A collection of scripts and pre-built binaries for the whisper.cpp project.

Binaries are included in releases, which track whisper.cpp releases or commits.

All binaries are statically built and should (in theory) run without issue on the appropriate architecture, platform, and hardware.

Currently, the following builds are included in each release:

Name	Build Options	Architecture	Platform
whisper-bin-linux	None	x64	linux
whisper-bin-minimal-linux	WHISPER_NO_AVX2, WHISPER_NO_FMA, WHISPER_NO_F16C	x64	linux
whisper-bin-blas-linux	WHISPER_OPENBLAS	x64	linux
whisper-bin-blas-minimal-linux	WHISPER_OPENBLAS, WHISPER_NO_AVX2, WHISPER_NO_FMA, WHISPER_NO_F16C	x64	linux

Details

If the pre-compiled binaries do not work on your system, you can re-build them with cmake as shown below.

Get whisper.cpp

# Get whisper.cpp
git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp


# Update CMakeLists.txt for whisper.cpp
cd whisper.cpp
sed -i '4i\set(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ".a" ".so")' CMakeLists.txt

Note that cmake and certain other dependencies need to be installed to build whisper.cpp, depending on the build options. See the whisper.cpp README for more information.

Build whisper.cpp with CMake

Standard Build

mkdir build
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++" -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
cmake --build build --config release

With OpenBLAS

mkdir build
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++" -DWHISPER_OPENBLAS=1 -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
cmake --build build --config release

Minimal Build (suitable for old hardware)

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++" -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DWHISPER_NO_AVX2=ON -DWHISPER_NO_FMA=ON -DWHISPER_NO_F16C=ON

Minimal Build with OpenBLAS (suitable for old hardware)

cmake -B build -DWHISPER_OPENBLAS=ON -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++" -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DWHISPER_NO_AVX2=ON -DWHISPER_NO_FMA=ON -DWHISPER_NO_F16C=ON

Testing

After building, use this to test (after downloading the model):

./build/bin/main -m models/ggml-tiny.en.bin -f samples/jfk.wav -t 2 -bs 1

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