This build has been tested on windows 10/11 and ubuntu 20/22 with llvm 15, cuda 11.6+ and python 3.10. Other configurations might also work just fine. If there are build issues encountered, your feedback is always appreciated.

Currently zpc jit module supports these JIT backends: LLVM (with openmp support if its runtime available) and Nvidia nvrtc. py_zfx is the target branch that is assumed to build ZPC JIT pipeline.

Under linux system,

sudo apt install libelf-dev
cmake llvm -Bbuild -DLLVM_USE_CRT_RELEASE=MT -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang++ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD:STRING=X86 -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;openmp;compiler-rt" -DLLVM_INCLUDE_BENCHMARKS=OFF -DLLVM_ENABLE_PEDANTIC=OFF -DLLVM_ENABLE_PIC=ON
cmake --build build --parallel 16
sudo cmake --build build --parallel 16 --target install

Under windows system, it is preferred to acquire llvm through vcpkg.

.\vcpkg install llvm:x64-windows

If a manual installation is demanded, make sure all ATL components have already been installed with visual studio, which is required for building LLVM. Then open terminal "x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS20xx", run the following build script.

cmake llvm -Bbuild -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="X86" -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;openmp;compiler-rt" -DLLVM_INCLUDE_BENCHMARKS=OFF -DLLVM_OPTIMIZED_TABLEGEN=ON -DLLVM_ENABLE_PIC=ON
cd build
ninja
ninja install

Ninja generator should be accessible alongside visual studio.

Cuda 11.6+ is required for zpc build, though the newest version is generally preferred.

Whenever you build a cmake c++ project that depends on the python package (i.e. find_package(Python3)) under windows system, it is preferred to put "-DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH=path/to/vs/cmake/path" during cmake configuration, where the FindPython3.cmake file that belongs to your visual studio IDE resides (e.g. "C:/Microsoft_Visual_Studio/2022/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/share/cmake-3.26/Modules"), thus avoiding misuse of python from your vcpkg packages.

pip install . --verbose

(TBD)

import pyzpc as zs
import zpy  # if used in zeno, this is required