webcl-validator

This document describes how to build and use WebCL Validator. Some example WebCL programs before and after protection are found here: http://wolfviking0.github.io/webcl-translator/ another test suite for testing plain OpenCL kernels with different vendor drivers is found from http://elhigu.github.io/opencl-testsuite/

Building

Currently WebCL Validator is implemented as a Clang tool. Therefore you need to fetch source code for LLVM and Clang and build WebCL Validator along with them.

Checkout the required repositories into following locations:

    LLVM:            /path/llvm
    Clang:           /path/llvm/tools/clang
    WebCL Validator: /path/llvm/tools/clang/tools/webcl-validator

This can be done as follows:

    # Get LLVM 3.4 source

    cd /path/
    git clone --single-branch http://llvm.org/git/llvm.git -b release_34
    cd /path/llvm/

    # Get Clang 3.4
    
    cd /path/llvm/tools
    git clone --single-branch http://llvm.org/git/clang.git -b release_34
    

    # Get WebCL Validator source and add it to CMakeLists.txt for compiling

    cd /path/llvm/tools/clang/tools
    git clone https://github.com/KhronosGroup/webcl-validator.git
    echo "add_subdirectory(webcl-validator)" >> CMakeLists.txt

Depending on your OS/configuration, you may need to install some additional tools:

    sudo yum install git-svn
    sudo yum install cmake28
    alias cmake=cmake28

You can now create a build directory and build all three components:

    mkdir /path/build
    cd /path/build
    # cmake uses git-svn if you used git instead of svn
    # For smaller executable, use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=MinSizeRel
    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug /path/llvm
    make -j4 # webcl-validator
    # run regression tests
    make -j4 check-webcl-validator

To get more verbose output:

    make VERBOSE=1 -j4 check-webcl-validator

To select which OpenCL library should be used one can give OpenCL_INCPATH and OpenCL_LIBPATH variables when runnign cmake e.g.

OpenCL_INCPATH=/usr/local/include OpenCL_LIBPATH=/usr/local/opt/pocl/lib cmake /path/llvm

Running

You can find the WebCL Validator and example WebCL kernels from:

    /path/build/bin
    /path/llvm/tools/clang/tools/webcl-validator/test

Run the following command to let WebCL Validator transform your WebCL kernels:

    webcl-validator kernel.cl [CLANG OPTIONS]

For example, use -D to inform WebCL Validator about used extensions. Passing -Dcl_khr_initialize memory tells that local memory initialization shouldn't be done, because the driver should initialize local memory with cl_khr_initialize_memory extension. See DESIGN.txt for more details:

    webcl-validator kernel.cl -Dcl_khr_initialize_memory

The validator adds some Clang options automatically. Option -x cl forces sources to be interpreted as OpenCL code even if they wouldn't use the .cl suffix. Option -include FILE automatically includes helper code, such as OpenCL type and builtin definitions.

To disable certain extensions from the default set of supported extensions you may use the --disable=xx switch:

    webcl-validator kernel.cl --disable=cl_khr_fp16

Building with Windows / Visual Studio

Get Visual Studio 2013 (I used Express for Windows Desktop version)

Get GIT and install it to default path (http://git-scm.com/downloads) (this will provide required tools like bash, grep, sed etc. for running test suite)

Get Python 2.7 (http://www.python.org/download/)

Get CMake 2.8 (http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html)

Get Intel OpenCL SDK (http://software.intel.com/en-us/vcsource/tools/opencl-sdk)

NOTE: Nvidia SDK headers didn't work for building all the test runners / clv.h API.

To build 64bit version do:

cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 Win64" ../llvm-3.4

If you have multiple OpenCL SDKs installed you can select which includes / libraries you like to use with OpenCL_INCPATH=<path to CL/cl.h> and OpenCL_LIBPATH=<directory where opencl.lib is found> e.g.

OpenCL_INCPATH="C:\intelsdk\include" OpenCL_LIBPATH="C:\intelsdk\lib\x64" cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 Win64" ../llvm-3.4

Open the generated llvm.sln file. Build by building the "ALL_BUILD" project, don't use Build Solution / F7.

Run tests by building "check-webcl-validator" project, found under "WebCL Validator Tests" in the Solution Explorer.

Building with Windows MinGW + MSYS (not tested recently since we changed to Visual Studio express)

Get CMake for Windows

Get MinGW64 4.6.3 and MSYS rev 12 from (NOTE: MinGW 4.8.1 failed compiling LLVM)

Extract mingw to C:\MinGW64 and MSYS to C:\MinGW64\msys

Add C:\MinGW64\bin to PATH.

Open MSYS shell and according to normal build instructions except tell cmake to generate MSYS make files

    cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" /path/llvm

CMake might fail to some error, if so run it again. Usually it works second time and build files will be generated. Compilation requires ~4GB RAM.

If you want to build also OpenCL programs and possibly run the tests, set

    export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/C/path/to/opencl/include
    export LIBRARY_PATH=/C/path/to/opencl/lib

Building with Xcode

Generate xcode project:
```
 cmake -G Xcode /path/llvm
```

Open and build in Xcode or from commandline