Altera RTE for OpenCL User Manual
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Utilities and Host Runtime Libraries
• The RTE Utility includes commands you can invoke to perform high-level tasks. The RTE utilities are
a subset of of the Altera SDK for OpenCL (AOCL) utilities.
• The host runtime provides the OpenCL host platform application program interface (API) and
runtime API for your OpenCL host application.
The host runtime consists of the following libraries:
• Statically-linked libraries provide OpenCL host APIs, hardware abstractions and helper libraries.
• Dynamically-linked libraries (DLLs) provide hardware abstractions and helper libraries.
Drivers, Libraries and Files
The RTE installation process installs the RTE into a directory that you own. The path to the software
installation directory is referenced by the ALTERAOCLSDKROOT environment variable. The following
table highlights the contents of this directory:
Windows
Folder
Linux
Directory
Big-Endian
System
Directory
ARM
Directory
Description
bin
bin
bin
bin
High-level utilities. Include this directory in your PATH
environment variable setting.
board
board
—
board
The Reference Platform available with the RTE.
Important: The Reference Platform for the RTE does
not include the
hardware
subdirectory.
host
host
host
host
Files necessary for compiling your host program.
host\
include
host/
include
host/
include
host/include
OpenCL Specification version 1.0 header files and
software interface files necessary for compiling and
linking your host application.
The
host/include/CL
subdirectory also includes the C++
header file
cl.hpp
. The file contains an OpenCL version 1.1
C++ wrapper API. These C++ bindings enable a C++ host
program to access the OpenCL runtime APIs using native
C++ classes and methods.
Important: The OpenCL version 1.1 C++ bindings
are compatible with OpenCL Specifica‐
tion versions 1.0 and 1.1.
Add this path to the
include
file search path in your
development environment.
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