Build the AMD ROCm Debugger#

ROCgdb can be built on Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Centos 8.1, RHEL 8.1, and SLES 15 Service Pack 1.

Building ROCgdb has the following prerequisites:

  1. A C++11 compiler such as GCC 4.8 or Clang 3.3.

  2. AMD Debugger API Library (ROCdbgapi) which can be installed as part of the AMD ROCm release by the rocm-dbgapi package.

  3. For Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 the following adds the needed packages:

    apt install bison flex gcc make ncurses-dev texinfo g++ zlib1g-dev \
  libexpat-dev python3-dev liblzma-dev libgmp-dev libbabeltrace-dev \
  libbabeltrace-ctf-dev

  4. For CentOS 8.1 and RHEL 8.1 the following adds the needed packages:

    yum install -y epel-release centos-release-scl bison flex gcc make \
  texinfo texinfo-tex gcc-c++ zlib-devel expat-devel python3-devel \
  xz-devel gmp-devel libbabeltrace-devel ncurses-devel
wget http://repo.okay.com.mx/centos/8/x86_64/release/libbabeltrace-devel-1.5.4-2.el8.x86_64.rpm \
&& rpm -ivh --nodeps libbabeltrace-devel-1.5.4-2.el8.x86_64.rpm

  5. For SLES 15 Service Pack 1 the following adds the needed packages:

    zypper in bison flex gcc make texinfo gcc-c++ zlib-devel libexpat-devel \
  python3-devel xz-devel gmp-devel babeltrace-devel ncurses-devel

An example command-line to build ROCgdb on Linux is:

cd rocgdb
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --program-prefix=roc \
  --enable-64-bit-bfd --enable-targets="x86_64-linux-gnu,amdgcn-amd-amdhsa" \
  --disable-ld --disable-gas --disable-gdbserver --disable-sim --enable-tui \
  --disable-gdbtk --disable-gprofng --disable-shared --with-expat \
  --with-system-zlib --without-guile --with-babeltrace --with-lzma \
  --with-python=python3
make

Specify --with-rocm-dbgapi=PATH if the the AMD Debugger API Library (ROCdbgapi) is not installed in its default location. The configure script looks in PATH/include and PATH/lib. The default value for PATH is /opt/rocm.

The built ROCgdb executable will be placed in:

  • build/gdb/gdb

The texinfo User Manual will be placed in:

  • build/gdb/doc/gdb.info

To install ROCgdb:

make install

The installed ROCgdb will be placed in:

  • <prefix>/bin/rocgdb

To execute ROCgdb, the ROCdbgapi library and its dependent ROCcomgr library must be installed. These can be installed as part of the AMD ROCm release by the rocm-dbgapi package:

  • librocm-dbgapi.so.0

  • libamd_comgr.so.1

The PDF User Manual can be generated with:

make pdf

The generated PDF will be placed in:

  • build/gdb/doc/gdb.pdf