Re: [Starpu-devel] SOCL and ICD

[Nathalie Furmento <nathalie.furmento@labri.fr>]

On Oct 02, 15:07, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Nathalie Furmento <nathalie.furmento@labri.fr> skribis:
> 
> > SOCL uses now ICD to enable multiple OpenCL implementations. For
> > reasons I cannot explain (ask Sylvain if you want more details), it
> > only works with the ICD implementation developed in Grenoble
> > (https://forge.imag.fr/projects/ocl-icd/).
> 
> IIUC it’s the environment variable that tells where to look for OpenCL
> implementations that’s only supported by OCL, right?

That's part of the reason. But as the goal of the mail was not to
explain the reasons, that's why i did not give more details.
 
> > The problem is how we make sure that implementation is installed on
> > the machine when running SOCL. Is there a way to detect the ICD
> > implementation installed on the machine is that specific one? (and
> > depending on the result, enable or disable SOCL).
> 
> If that libraries defines specific macros, or exports specific symbols,
> ‘configure’ could check for them.

That could be a solution.

Nathalie