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11 years ago

Clarity regarding Altera OpenCL basics

Hi all, I started my foray into OpenCL through GPUs, such as nVIDIA or AMD graphics cards. However I've recently moved onto research using FPGAs. Unfortunately even after querying the usual s...
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11 years ago

Hi,

As you said, the Altera OpenCL SDK does not use the ICD loader. You instead have to link to the library instead. My guess is you are probably including the header, cl.h or cl.hpp, but you are forgetting the link flag for compilation. It should look something like this: 


g++ -lOpenCL main.cpp

Regards,

Smith