ArrayFire Go Bindings

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Building arrayfire-go

Install ArrayFire libraries

Ensure you have the ArrayFire library installed on your system.

You can get the ArrayFire library from one of the following ways:

• Binary Installers
• Build from source

Set Environment variables

• Point AF_PATH to the installed location of ArrayFire.
• If using the CUDA backend, point CUDA_PATH to the location of the CUDA toolkit
• Point GOPATH to the location of arrayfire-go
• Export LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on OSX to point to
  • AF_PATH/lib
  • CUDA_PATH/nvvm/lib64 if using CUDA backend.

Building with appropriate backend

For CPU backend:

$ export CGO_CFLAGS="-I$AF_PATH/include"
$ export CGO_LDFLAGS="-L$AF_PATH/lib -lafcpu -lforge"
$ go build

For CUDA backend:

$ export CGO_CFLAGS="-I$AF_PATH/include"
$ CGO_LDFLAGS="-L$AF_PATH/lib -lafcuda -lforge -L$CUDA_PATH/nvvm/lib64 -lnvvm"
$ go build

For OpenCL backend:

$ export CGO_CFLAGS="-I$AF_PATH/include"
$ export CGO_LDFLAGS="-L$AF_PATH/lib -lafopencl -lforge"
$ go build

Contribute

If you want to contribute to this project, start here:

• https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/cgo
• https://golang.org/cmd/cgo/
• http://blog.golang.org/c-go-cgo