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10 years ago

Using emulator on ubuntu fails

Hi all, I have an opencl project that compiles and runs on Redhat just fine. I have installed Quartus/etc on my ubuntu machine as well. The executable created on Redhat runs fine on Ubuntu. Whe...
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10 years ago

Apparently, Ubuntu/Debian tool-chain passes --as-needed flag to the linker by default.

We should add --no-as-needed flag to ensure correct linking.

This is worked for my 64 bit OPENCL SDK 14.0 installation on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Change the makefile linking Flag as below:

default: AOCL_LINK_CONFIG := $(shell aocl link-config)

fixed: AOCL_LINK_CONFIG := -Wl,--no-as-needed $(shell aocl link-config)