Build on Linux

Prerequisites

The following dependencies are required to build the project.

Name	Version	Usage	Import
CMake	>=3.26	build system	system install
Python	>=3.11	build system	system install
Cuda	>=12.4	GPU programming	system install
Vcpkg	>=2024.11.16	package manager	git clone

Install Vcpkg

If you haven't installed Vcpkg, you can clone the repository with the following command:

mkdir ~/Toolchain
cd ~/Toolchain
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git
cd vcpkg
./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh

The simplest way to let CMake detect Vcpkg is to set the System Environment Variable CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE to ~/Toolchain/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake

# Write in ~/.bashrc
export CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="$HOME/Toolchain/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"

Clone Libuipc

Clone the repository with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/spiriMirror/libuipc.git

Conda Environment

We recommend using conda environments to build the project on Linux.

conda env create -f conda/env.yaml

Cuda-12.4.0 requires driver version >= 550.54.14 (https://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/cuda-compatibility/index.html#use-the-right-compat-package), check your nvidia driver version with the following command.

nvidia-smi

Other Environment

If you don't want to use conda, you can manually install CMake 3.26, GCC 11.4, Cuda 12.4 and Python >=3.11 with your favorite package manager.

Build Libuipc

Build the project with the following commands.

conda activate uipc_env
cd libuipc; cd ..; mkdir CMakeBuild; cd CMakeBuild;
cmake -S ../libuipc -DUIPC_BUILD_PYBIND=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=<Release/RelWithDebInfo> 
cmake --build . -j8

Note

Use multi-thread to speed up the build process as possible, becasue the NVCC compiler will take a lot of time.

Run Project

Just run the executable files in CMakeBuild/<Release/RelWithDebInfo>/bin folder.

Install Pyuipc

With UIPC_BUILD_PYBIND option set to ON, the Python binding will be built and installed in the specified Python environment.

If some errors occur during the installation, you can try to manually install the Python binding.

cd CMakeBuild/python
pip install .

Check Installation

You can run the uipc_info.py to check if the Pyuipc is installed correctly.

cd libuipc/python
python uipc_info.py

More samples are at Pyuipc Samples.