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9 years agoFor posterity, I will update myself again!
I found this in the Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL Release Notes document: desciptionThe Altera SDK for OpenCL platform is now the Intel FPGA
SDK for OpenCL platform. As a result, if the
cl_platform_id findPlatform(string_name)
function in your host code looks for "Altera", "Altera SDK",
or other similar strings, the findPlatform() call will
return a NULL value. In some cases, you might not receive
a NULL value from findPlatform(), but you will
encounter a segmentation fault when running your
application.
When running design examples from previous versions, you
might encounter the following error message:
'ERROR: Unable to find Altera OpenCL Platform' workaround Update your host code to instruct the findPlatform()
function to search for "Intel(R) FPGA SDK for OpenCL",
"Intel(R) FPGA SDK", or "Intel(R) FPGA".
Do not limit the search string to just "Intel" because you
might have other Intel platforms in your library path.
Note: Version 16.1 of the OpenCL design examples have
been updated to search for "Intel(R) FPGA" as the
platform name.