HIP Template

A template inspired by @Ahdhn's CUDATemplate to start a new HIP project using CMake on Linux. Note when HIP/ROCm is publicly made available on Windows and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), I will update this template to reflect the support for that as well. This template provides a simple, easy-to-modify CMake file, with GitHub Actions pre-configured to build check-ins and test if the compilation succeeds.

Installing Requirements

• cmake required minimum version 2.24.x:

python3 -m pip install 'cmake==3.24.0'

• ROCm/HIP recommended version 5.4.x or above. Installation instructions vary, please refer to the How to Install ROCm. The following is an example of how to install ROCm 5.4.x, HIP and some useful libraries on an Ubuntu 22.04 system using apt-get:

sudo apt-get update
curl -fsSL https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/rocm-keyring.gpg
echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/rocm-keyring.gpg] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/5.4 jammy main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list
echo -e 'Package: *\nPin: release o=repo.radeon.com\nPin-Priority: 600' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/rocm-pin-600

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y rocm-dev hip-dev rocm-libs

Configure Environment

• Export $PATH for ROCm and HIP libraries by adding the following to the end of your ~\.bashrc or ~\.bash_profile file in your home directory, and then perform source ~\.bashrc. This is also illustrated in the installation of ROCm/HIP guide.

# Export ROCM/HIP Paths
export ROCM_PATH=/opt/rocm
export HIP_PATH=/opt/rocm/hip
export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:${ROCM_PATH}/bin:${HIP_PATH}/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ROCM_PATH}:${ROCM_PATH}/lib:${HIP_PATH}/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Getting Started

Assuming you have the requirements installed and configured, simply fetch the project and build using CMake to get started!

git clone https://github.com/neoblizz/HIP_template.git
cd HIP_template
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j$(nproc)

This will generate the example executable in bin directory under build, which can be executed like so:

./bin/hello

Directory Structure

This template follows a standard C++ library's directory structure. Important directories are library/src for source files, library/include for library includes, examples for a simple "hello world" example that uses the library, and unittests for GoogleTests based testing framework.

.
├── CMakeLists.txt
├── README.md
├── cmake
├── examples
├── externals
├── library
│   ├── include
│   └── src
├── scripts
│   └── format.sh
└── unittests

License & Maintainer

• This work is Unlicensed. A license with no conditions whatsoever which dedicates works to the public domain. Unlicensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.
• Maintained by Muhammad Osama <[email protected]>