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Building ONNX Runtime

Dockerfiles / Pre-built packages

Content

Inferencing

Training

Inferencing

Start: Baseline CPU

Prerequisites

  • Checkout the source tree: 
    git clone --recursive https://github.com/Microsoft/onnxruntime
cd onnxruntime
  • Install cmake-3.13 or higher from https://cmake.org/download/.

Build Instructions

Windows

Open Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio version you are going to use. This will properly setup the environment including paths to your compiler, linker, utilities and header files.

.\build.bat --config RelWithDebInfo --build_shared_lib --parallel

The default Windows CMake Generator is Visual Studio 2017, but you can also use the newer Visual Studio 2019 by passing --cmake_generator "Visual Studio 16 2019" to .\build.bat

Linux/Mac OS X

./build.sh --config RelWithDebInfo --build_shared_lib --parallel

By default, ORT is configured to be built for a minimum target Mac OS X version of 10.12. The shared library in the release Nuget(s) and the Python wheel may be installed on Mac OS X versions of 10.12+.

Notes

  • Please note that these instructions build the debug build, which may have performance tradeoffs
  • To build the version from each release (which include Windows, Linux, and Mac variants), see these .yml files for reference: CPU, GPU
  • The build script runs all unit tests by default (for native builds and skips tests by default for cross-compiled builds).
  • If you need to install protobuf 3.6.1 from source code (cmake/external/protobuf), please note:
    • CMake flag protobuf_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS must be turned OFF. After the installation, you should have the 'protoc' executable in your PATH. It is recommended to run ldconfig to make sure protobuf libraries are found.
    • If you installed your protobuf in a non standard location it would be helpful to set the following env var:export CMAKE_ARGS="-DONNX_CUSTOM_PROTOC_EXECUTABLE=full path to protoc" so the ONNX build can find it. Also run ldconfig <protobuf lib folder path> so the linker can find protobuf libraries.
  • If you'd like to install onnx from source code (cmake/external/onnx), use: 
    export ONNX_ML=1
python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
pip3 install --upgrade dist/*.whl

Supported architectures and build environments

Architectures

x86_32 x86_64 ARM32v7 ARM64
Windows YES YES YES YES
Linux YES YES YES YES
Mac OS X NO YES NO NO

Environments

OS Supports CPU Supports GPU Notes
Windows 10 YES YES VS2019 through the latest VS2015 are supported
Windows 10
Subsystem for Linux		 YES NO
Ubuntu 16.x YES YES Also supported on ARM32v7 (experimental)
Mac OS X YES NO

GCC 4.x and below are not supported.

OS/Compiler Matrix:

OS/Compiler Supports VC Supports GCC Supports Clang
Windows 10 YES Not tested Not tested
Linux NO YES(gcc>=4.8) Not tested
Mac OS X NO Not tested YES (Minimum version required not ascertained)

Common Build Instructions

Description Command Additional details
Basic build build.bat (Windows)
./build.sh (Linux)
Release build --config Release Release build. Other valid config values are RelWithDebInfo and Debug.
Use OpenMP --use_openmp OpenMP will parallelize some of the code for potential performance improvements. This is not recommended for running on single threads.
Build using parallel processing --parallel This is strongly recommended to speed up the build.
Build Shared Library --build_shared_lib

APIs and Language Bindings

API Command Additional details
Python --build_wheel
C# and C packages --build_csharp
WindowsML --use_winml
--use_dml
--build_shared_lib		 WindowsML depends on DirectML and the OnnxRuntime shared library
Java --build_java Creates an onnxruntime4j.jar in the build directory, implies --build_shared_lib
Compiling the Java API requires gradle v6.1+ to be installed in addition to the usual requirements.
Node.js --build_nodejs Build Node.js binding. Implies --build_shared_lib

Build ONNX Runtime Server on Linux

Read more about ONNX Runtime Server here.

Build instructions are here

Execution Providers

CUDA

Prerequisites

  • Install CUDA and cuDNN
    • ONNX Runtime is built and tested with CUDA 10.1 and cuDNN 7.6 using the Visual Studio 2019 14.12 toolset (i.e. Visual Studio 2019 v16.5). ONNX Runtime can also be built with CUDA versions from 9.1 up to 10.1, and cuDNN versions from 7.1 up to 7.4.
    • The path to the CUDA installation must be provided via the CUDA_PATH environment variable, or the --cuda_home parameter
    • The path to the cuDNN installation (include the cuda folder in the path) must be provided via the cuDNN_PATH environment variable, or --cudnn_home parameter. The cuDNN path should contain bin, include and lib directories.
    • The path to the cuDNN bin directory must be added to the PATH environment variable so that cudnn64_7.dll is found.

Build Instructions

Windows
.\build.bat --use_cuda --cudnn_home <cudnn home path> --cuda_home <cuda home path>
Linux
./build.sh --use_cuda --cudnn_home <cudnn home path> --cuda_home <cuda home path>

A Dockerfile is available here.

Notes

  • Depending on compatibility between the CUDA, cuDNN, and Visual Studio 2017 versions you are using, you may need to explicitly install an earlier version of the MSVC toolset.

  • CUDA 10.0 is known to work with toolsets from 14.11 up to 14.16 (Visual Studio 2017 15.9), and should continue to work with future Visual Studio versions

  • CUDA 9.2 is known to work with the 14.11 MSVC toolset (Visual Studio 15.3 and 15.4)

    • To install the 14.11 MSVC toolset, see this page.
    • To use the 14.11 toolset with a later version of Visual Studio 2017 you have two options:

    1. Setup the Visual Studio environment variables to point to the 14.11 toolset by running vcvarsall.bat, prior to running the build script. e.g. if you have VS2017 Enterprise, an x64 build would use the following command "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" amd64 -vcvars_ver=14.11 For convenience, .\build.amd64.1411.bat will do this and can be used in the same way as .\build.bat. e.g. .\build.amd64.1411.bat --use_cuda

    2. Alternatively, if you have CMake 3.13 or later you can specify the toolset version via the --msvc_toolset build script parameter. e.g. .\build.bat --msvc_toolset 14.11

  • If you have multiple versions of CUDA installed on a Windows machine and are building with Visual Studio, CMake will use the build files for the highest version of CUDA it finds in the BuildCustomization folder. e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\BuildCustomizations. If you want to build with an earlier version, you must temporarily remove the 'CUDA x.y.*' files for later versions from this directory.

TensorRT

See more information on the TensorRT Execution Provider here.

Prerequisites

  • Install CUDA and cuDNN
    • The TensorRT execution provider for ONNX Runtime is built and tested with CUDA 10.2 and cuDNN 7.6.5.
    • The path to the CUDA installation must be provided via the CUDA_PATH environment variable, or the --cuda_home parameter. The CUDA path should contain bin, include and lib directories.
    • The path to the CUDA bin directory must be added to the PATH environment variable so that nvcc is found.
    • The path to the cuDNN installation (path to folder that contains libcudnn.so) must be provided via the cuDNN_PATH environment variable, or --cudnn_home parameter.
  • Install TensorRT
    • The TensorRT execution provider for ONNX Runtime is built on TensorRT 7.x and is tested with TensorRT 7.0.0.11.
    • The path to TensorRT installation must be provided via the --tensorrt_home parameter.

Build Instructions

Windows
.\build.bat --cudnn_home <path to cuDNN home> --cuda_home <path to CUDA home> --use_tensorrt --tensorrt_home <path to TensorRT home>
Linux
./build.sh --cudnn_home <path to cuDNN e.g. /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/> --cuda_home <path to folder for CUDA e.g. /usr/local/cuda> --use_tensorrt --tensorrt_home <path to TensorRT home>

Dockerfile instructions are available here

Jetson TX1/TX2/Nano (ARM64 Builds)

  1. ONNX Runtime v1.2.0 or higher requires TensorRT 7 support, at this moment, the compatible TensorRT and CUDA libraries in JetPack 4.4 is still under developer preview stage. Therefore, we suggest using ONNX Runtime v1.1.2 with JetPack 4.3 which has been validated.
git clone --single-branch --recursive --branch v1.1.2 https://github.com/Microsoft/onnxruntime
  1. Indicate CUDA compiler. It's optional, cmake can automatically find the correct cuda.
export CUDACXX="/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc"
  1. Modify tools/ci_build/build.py
- "-Donnxruntime_DEV_MODE=" + ("OFF" if args.android else "ON"),
+ "-Donnxruntime_DEV_MODE=" + ("OFF" if args.android else "OFF"),
  1. Modify cmake/CMakeLists.txt
-  set(CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS} -gencode=arch=compute_50,code=sm_50") # M series
+  set(CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS} -gencode=arch=compute_53,code=sm_53") # Jetson TX1/Nano 
+  set(CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS} -gencode=arch=compute_62,code=sm_62") # Jetson TX2
  1. Build onnxruntime with --use_tensorrt flag
./build.sh --config Release --update --build --build_wheel --use_tensorrt --cuda_home /usr/local/cuda --cudnn_home /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu --tensorrt_home /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu

See instructions for additional information and tips.

DNNL and MKLML

See more information on DNNL and MKL-ML here.

Build Instructions

Linux

DNNL: ./build.sh --use_dnnl

nGraph

See more information on the nGraph Execution Provider here.

Build Instructions

Windows

.\build.bat --use_ngraph
Linux
./build.sh --use_ngraph

OpenVINO

See more information on the OpenVINO Execution Provider here.

Prerequisites

  1. Install the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINOTM Toolkit Release 2020.2 for the appropriate OS and target hardware :

    Follow documentation for detailed instructions.

  2. Configure the target hardware with specific follow on instructions:

    • To configure Intel® Processor Graphics(GPU) please follow these instructions: Windows, Linux
    • To configure Intel® MovidiusTM USB, please follow this getting started guide: Linux
    • To configure Intel® Vision Accelerator Design based on 8 MovidiusTM MyriadX VPUs, please follow this configuration guide: Windows, Linux
    • To configure Intel® Vision Accelerator Design with an Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA, please follow this configuration guide: Linux

  3. Initialize the OpenVINO environment by running the setupvars script as shown below:

    • For Linux run:
       $ source <openvino_install_directory>/bin/setupvars.sh
    • For Windows run:
       C:\ <openvino_install_directory>\bin\setupvars.bat

Build Instructions

Windows
.\build.bat --config RelWithDebInfo --use_openvino <hardware_option>

Note: The default Windows CMake Generator is Visual Studio 2017, but you can also use the newer Visual Studio 2019 by passing --cmake_generator "Visual Studio 16 2019" to .\build.bat

Linux
./build.sh --config RelWithDebInfo --use_openvino <hardware_option>

--use_openvino: Builds the OpenVINO Execution Provider in ONNX Runtime.

  • <hardware_option>: Specifies the default hardware target for building OpenVINO Execution Provider. This can be overriden dynamically at runtime with another option (refer to OpenVINO-ExecutionProvider.md for more details on dynamic device selection). Below are the options for different Intel target devices.
Hardware Option Target Device
CPU_FP32 Intel® CPUs
GPU_FP32 Intel® Integrated Graphics
GPU_FP16 Intel® Integrated Graphics with FP16 quantization of models
 MYRIAD_FP16  Intel® MovidiusTM USB sticks
 VAD-M_FP16  Intel® Vision Accelerator Design based on 8 MovidiusTM MyriadX VPUs
 VAD-F_FP32  Intel® Vision Accelerator Design with an Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA

For more information on OpenVINO Execution Provider's ONNX Layer support, Topology support, and Intel hardware enabled, please refer to the document OpenVINO-ExecutionProvider.md in $onnxruntime_root/docs/execution_providers

Android NNAPI

See more information on the NNAPI Execution Provider here.

Prerequisites

To build ONNX Runtime with the NN API EP, first install Android NDK (see Android Build instructions)

Build Instructions

The basic build commands are below. There are also some other parameters for building the Android version. See Android Build instructions for more details.

Cross compiling on Windows
./build.bat --android --android_sdk_path <android sdk path> --android_ndk_path <android ndk path> --use_dnnlibrary
Cross compiling on Linux
./build.sh --android --android_sdk_path <android sdk path> --android_ndk_path <android ndk path> --use_dnnlibrary

NUPHAR

See more information on the Nuphar Execution Provider here.

Prerequisites

  • The Nuphar execution provider for ONNX Runtime is built and tested with LLVM 9.0.0. Because of TVM's requirement when building with LLVM, you need to build LLVM from source. To build the debug flavor of ONNX Runtime, you need the debug build of LLVM.
    • Windows (Visual Studio 2017):
    REM download llvm source code 9.0.0 and unzip to \llvm\source\path, then install to \llvm\install\path
cd \llvm\source\path
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=X86 -DLLVM_ENABLE_DIA_SDK=OFF
msbuild llvm.sln /maxcpucount /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=\llvm\install\path -DBUILD_TYPE=Release -P cmake_install.cmake

Note that following LLVM cmake patch is necessary to make the build work on Windows, Linux does not need to apply the patch. The patch is to fix the linking warning LNK4199 caused by this LLVM commit

diff --git "a/lib\\Support\\CMakeLists.txt" "b/lib\\Support\\CMakeLists.txt"
index 7dfa97c..6d99e71 100644
--- "a/lib\\Support\\CMakeLists.txt"
+++ "b/lib\\Support\\CMakeLists.txt"
@@ -38,12 +38,6 @@ elseif( CMAKE_HOST_UNIX )
   endif()
 endif( MSVC OR MINGW )

-# Delay load shell32.dll if possible to speed up process startup.
-set (delayload_flags)
-if (MSVC)
-  set (delayload_flags delayimp -delayload:shell32.dll -delayload:ole32.dll)
-endif()
-
 # Link Z3 if the user wants to build it.
 if(LLVM_WITH_Z3)
   set(Z3_LINK_FILES ${Z3_LIBRARIES})
@@ -187,7 +181,7 @@ add_llvm_library(LLVMSupport
   ${LLVM_MAIN_INCLUDE_DIR}/llvm/ADT
   ${LLVM_MAIN_INCLUDE_DIR}/llvm/Support
   ${Backtrace_INCLUDE_DIRS}
-  LINK_LIBS ${system_libs} ${delayload_flags} ${Z3_LINK_FILES}
+  LINK_LIBS ${system_libs} ${Z3_LINK_FILES}
   )

 set_property(TARGET LLVMSupport PROPERTY LLVM_SYSTEM_LIBS "${system_libs}")
  • Linux Download llvm source code 9.0.0 and unzip to /llvm/source/path, then install to /llvm/install/path
cd /llvm/source/path
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=X86 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make -j$(nproc)
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/llvm/install/path -DBUILD_TYPE=Release -P cmake_install.cmake

Build Instructions

Windows
.\build.bat --use_tvm --use_llvm --llvm_path=\llvm\install\path\lib\cmake\llvm --use_mklml --use_nuphar --build_shared_lib --build_csharp --enable_pybind --config=Release
  • These instructions build the release flavor. The Debug build of LLVM would be needed to build with the Debug flavor of ONNX Runtime.
Linux:
./build.sh --use_tvm --use_llvm --llvm_path=/llvm/install/path/lib/cmake/llvm --use_mklml --use_nuphar --build_shared_lib --build_csharp --enable_pybind --config=Release

Dockerfile instructions are available here.

DirectML

See more information on the DirectML execution provider here.

Windows

.\build.bat --use_dml

Notes

The DirectML execution provider supports building for both x64 and x86 architectures. DirectML is only supported on Windows.

ARM Compute Library

See more information on the ACL Execution Provider here.

Prerequisites

  • Supported backend: i.MX8QM Armv8 CPUs
  • Supported BSP: i.MX8QM BSP
    • Install i.MX8QM BSP: source fsl-imx-xwayland-glibc-x86_64-fsl-image-qt5-aarch64-toolchain-4*.sh
  • Set up the build environment
source /opt/fsl-imx-xwayland/4.*/environment-setup-aarch64-poky-linux
alias cmake="/usr/bin/cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT/usr/share/cmake/OEToolchainConfig.cmake"
  • See Build ARM below for information on building for ARM devices

Build Instructions

  1. Configure ONNX Runtime with ACL support:
cmake ../onnxruntime-arm-upstream/cmake -DONNX_CUSTOM_PROTOC_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/protoc -Donnxruntime_RUN_ONNX_TESTS=OFF -Donnxruntime_GENERATE_TEST_REPORTS=ON -Donnxruntime_DEV_MODE=ON -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3 -Donnxruntime_USE_CUDA=OFF -Donnxruntime_USE_NSYNC=OFF -Donnxruntime_CUDNN_HOME= -Donnxruntime_USE_JEMALLOC=OFF -Donnxruntime_ENABLE_PYTHON=OFF -Donnxruntime_BUILD_CSHARP=OFF -Donnxruntime_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=ON -Donnxruntime_USE_EIGEN_FOR_BLAS=ON -Donnxruntime_USE_OPENBLAS=OFF -Donnxruntime_USE_ACL=ON -Donnxruntime_USE_DNNL=OFF -Donnxruntime_USE_MKLML=OFF -Donnxruntime_USE_OPENMP=ON -Donnxruntime_USE_TVM=OFF -Donnxruntime_USE_LLVM=OFF -Donnxruntime_ENABLE_MICROSOFT_INTERNAL=OFF -Donnxruntime_USE_BRAINSLICE=OFF -Donnxruntime_USE_NUPHAR=OFF -Donnxruntime_USE_EIGEN_THREADPOOL=OFF -Donnxruntime_BUILD_UNIT_TESTS=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo

The -Donnxruntime_USE_ACL=ON option will use, by default, the 19.05 version of the Arm Compute Library. To set the right version you can use: -Donnxruntime_USE_ACL_1902=ON, -Donnxruntime_USE_ACL_1905=ON or -Donnxruntime_USE_ACL_1908=ON;

  1. Build ONNX Runtime library, test and performance application:
make -j 6
  1. Deploy ONNX runtime on the i.MX 8QM board
libonnxruntime.so.0.5.0
onnxruntime_perf_test
onnxruntime_test_all

Build Instructions (Jetson Nano)

  1. Build ACL Library (skip if already built)
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/Arm-software/ComputeLibrary.git
cd ComputeLibrary
sudo apt install scons
sudo apt install g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf
scons -j8 arch=arm64-v8a  Werror=1 debug=0 asserts=0 neon=1 opencl=1 examples=1 build=native
  1. Set environment variables to set include directory and shared object library path.
export CPATH=~/ComputeLibrary/include/:~/ComputeLibrary/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/ComputeLibrary/build/
  1. Build onnxruntime with --use_acl flag
./build.sh --use_acl

ArmNN

See more information on the ArmNN Execution Provider here.

Prerequisites

  • Supported backend: i.MX8QM Armv8 CPUs
  • Supported BSP: i.MX8QM BSP
    • Install i.MX8QM BSP: source fsl-imx-xwayland-glibc-x86_64-fsl-image-qt5-aarch64-toolchain-4*.sh
  • Set up the build environment
source /opt/fsl-imx-xwayland/4.*/environment-setup-aarch64-poky-linux
alias cmake="/usr/bin/cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT/usr/share/cmake/OEToolchainConfig.cmake"
  • See Build ARM below for information on building for ARM devices

Build Instructions

./build.sh --use_armnn

The Relu operator is set by default to use the CPU execution provider for better performance. To use the ArmNN implementation build with --armnn_relu flag

./build.sh --use_armnn --armnn_relu

RKNPU

See more information on the RKNPU Execution Provider here.

Prerequisites

  • Supported platform: RK1808 Linux
  • See Build ARM below for information on building for ARM devices
  • Use gcc-linaro-6.3.1-2017.05-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu instead of gcc-linaro-6.3.1-2017.05-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf, and modify CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER & CMAKE_C_COMPILER in tool.cmake: 
    set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER aarch64-linux-gnu-g++)
set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc)

Build Instructions

Linux

  1. Download rknpu_ddk to any directory.

  2. Build ONNX Runtime library and test:

    ./build.sh --arm --use_rknpu --parallel --build_shared_lib --build_dir build_arm --config MinSizeRel --cmake_extra_defines RKNPU_DDK_PATH=<Path To rknpu_ddk> CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<Path To tool.cmake> ONNX_CUSTOM_PROTOC_EXECUTABLE=<Path To protoc>

  3. Deploy ONNX runtime and librknpu_ddk.so on the RK1808 board:

    libonnxruntime.so.1.2.0
onnxruntime_test_all
rknpu_ddk/lib64/librknpu_ddk.so

Vitis-AI

See more information on the Xilinx Vitis-AI execution provider here.

For instructions to setup the hardware environment: Hardware setup

Linux

./build.sh --use_vitisai

Notes

The Vitis-AI execution provider is only supported on Linux.

Options

OpenMP

Build Instructions

Windows
.\build.bat --use_openmp
Linux
./build.sh --use_openmp

OpenBLAS

Prerequisites

  • OpenBLAS
    • Windows: See build instructions here
    • Linux: Install the libopenblas-dev package sudo apt-get install libopenblas-dev

Build Instructions

Windows
.\build.bat --use_openblas
Linux
./build.sh --use_openblas

DebugNodeInputsOutputs

OnnxRuntime supports build options for enabling debugging of intermediate tensor shapes and data.

Build Instructions

Set onnxruntime_DEBUG_NODE_INPUTS_OUTPUT to one of the values below.

Linux

./build.sh --cmake_extra_defines onnxruntime_DEBUG_NODE_INPUTS_OUTPUTS=VALUE

Windows

.\build.bat --cmake_extra_defines onnxruntime_DEBUG_NODE_INPUTS_OUTPUTS=VALUE

Values:

  • 0: Disables this functionality if previously enabled; alternatively, delete CMakeCache.txt instead of setting this to 0
  • 1: Dump tensor input/output shapes for all nodes to stdout
  • 2: Dump tensor input/output shapes and output data for all nodes to stdout

Architectures

x86

Build Instructions

Windows
  • add --x86 argument when launching .\build.bat
Linux
  • Must be built on a x86 OS
  • add --x86 argument to build.sh

ARM

There are a few options for building for ARM.

Cross compiling for ARM with simulation (Linux/Windows)

EASY, SLOW, RECOMMENDED

This method rely on qemu user mode emulation. It allows you to compile using a desktop or cloud VM through instruction level simulation. You'll run the build on x86 CPU and translate every ARM instruction to x86. This is much faster than compiling natively on a low-end ARM device and avoids out-of-memory issues that may be encountered. The resulting ONNX Runtime Python wheel (.whl) file is then deployed to an ARM device where it can be invoked in Python 3 scripts.

Here is an example for Raspberrypi3 and Raspbian. Note: this does not work for Raspberrypi 1 or Zero, and if your operating system is different from what the dockerfile uses, it also may not work.

The build process can take hours.

Cross compiling on Linux

Difficult, fast

This option is very fast and allows the package to be built in minutes, but is challenging to setup. If you have a large code base (e.g. you are adding a new execution provider to onnxruntime), this may be the only feasible method.

1. Get the corresponding toolchain.

TLDR; Go to https://www.linaro.org/downloads/, get "64-bit Armv8 Cortex-A, little-endian" and "Linux Targeted", not "Bare-Metal Targeted". Extract it to your build machine and add the bin folder to your $PATH env. Then skip this part.

You can use GCC or Clang. Both work, but instructions here are based on GCC.

In GCC terms:

  • "build" describes the type of system on which GCC is being configured and compiled
  • "host" describes the type of system on which GCC runs. "target" to describe the type of system for which GCC produce code When not cross compiling, usually "build" = "host" = "target". When you do cross compile, usually "build" = "host" != "target". For example, you may build GCC on x86_64, then run GCC on x86_64, then generate binaries that target aarch64. In this case,"build" = "host" = x86_64 Linux, target is aarch64 Linux.

You can either build GCC from source code by yourself, or get a prebuilt one from a vendor like Ubuntu, linaro. Choosing the same compiler version as your target operating system is best. If ths is not possible, choose the latest stable one and statically link to the GCC libs.

When you get the compiler, run aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -v This should produce an output like below:

Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-linux-gnu/9/lto-wrapper
Target: aarch64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../gcc-9.2.1-20190827/configure --bindir=/usr/bin --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --datadir=/usr/share --disable-decimal-float --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-gold --disable-libgcj --disable-libgomp --disable-libmpx --disable-libquadmath --disable-libssp --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-shared --disable-silent-rules --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-threads --with-ld=/usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-ld --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-linker-build-id --enable-lto --enable-nls --enable-obsolete --enable-plugin --enable-targets=all --exec-prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --includedir=/usr/include --infodir=/usr/share/info --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --prefix=/usr --program-prefix=aarch64-linux-gnu- --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --sysconfdir=/etc --target=aarch64-linux-gnu --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-isl --with-newlib --with-plugin-ld=/usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-ld --with-sysroot=/usr/aarch64-linux-gnu/sys-root --with-system-libunwind --with-system-zlib --without-headers --enable-gnu-indirect-function --with-linker-hash-style=gnu
Thread model: single
gcc version 9.2.1 20190827 (Red Hat Cross 9.2.1-3) (GCC)

Check the value of --build, --host, --target, and if it has special args like --with-arch=armv8-a, --with-arch=armv6, --with-tune=arm1176jz-s, --with-fpu=vfp, --with-float=hard.

You must also know what kind of flags your target hardware need, which can differ greatly. For example, if you just get the normal ARMv7 compiler and use it for Raspberry Pi V1 directly, it won't work because Raspberry Pi only has ARMv6. Generally every hardware vendor will provide a toolchain; check how that one was built.

A target env is identifed by:

  • Arch: x86_32, x86_64, armv6,armv7,arvm7l,aarch64,...
  • OS: bare-metal or linux.
  • Libc: gnu libc/ulibc/musl/...
  • ABI: ARM has mutilple ABIs like eabi, eabihf...

You can get all these information from the previous output, please be sure they are all correct.

2. Get a pre-compiled protoc:

Get this from https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.11.2/protoc-3.11.2-linux-x86_64.zip and unzip after downloading. The version must match the one onnxruntime is using. Currently we are using 3.11.2.

3. (Optional) Setup sysroot to enable python extension. Skip if not using Python.

Dump the root file system of the target operating system to your build machine. We'll call that folder "sysroot" and use it for build onnxruntime python extension. Before doing that, you should install python3 dev package(which contains the C header files) and numpy python package on the target machine first.

Below are some examples.

If the target OS is raspbian-buster, please download the RAW image from their website then run:

$ fdisk -l 2020-02-13-raspbian-buster.img

Disk 2020-02-13-raspbian-buster.img: 3.54 GiB, 3787456512 bytes, 7397376 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xea7d04d6

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
2020-02-13-raspbian-buster.img1 8192 532479 524288 256M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
2020-02-13-raspbian-buster.img2 532480 7397375 6864896 3.3G 83 Linux

You'll find the the root partition starts at the 532480 sector, which is 532480 * 512=272629760 bytes from the beginning.

Then run:

$ mkdir /mnt/pi
$ mount -r -o loop,offset=272629760 2020-02-13-raspbian-buster.img /mnt/pi

You'll see all raspbian files at /mnt/pi. However you can't use it yet. Because some of the symlinks are broken, you must fix them first. In /mnt/pi, run

$ find . -type l -exec realpath  {} \; |grep 'No such file'

It will show which are broken. Then you can fix them by running:

$ mkdir /mnt/pi2
$ cd /mnt/pi2
$ sudo tar -C /mnt/pi -cf - . | sudo tar --transform 'flags=s;s,^/,/mnt/pi2/,' -xf -

Then /mnt/pi2 is the sysroot folder you'll use in the next step.

If the target OS is Ubuntu, you can get an image from https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/. But that image is in qcow2 format. Please convert it before run fdisk and mount.

qemu-img convert -p -O raw ubuntu-18.04-server-cloudimg-arm64.img ubuntu.raw

The remaining part is similar to raspbian.

If the target OS is manylinux2014, you can get it by: Install qemu-user-static from apt or dnf. Then run the docker Ubuntu:

docker run -v /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static:/usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static -it --rm quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_aarch64 /bin/bash

The "-v /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static:/usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static" arg is not needed on Fedora.

Then, inside the docker, run

cd /opt/python
./cp35-cp35m/bin/python -m pip install numpy==1.16.6
./cp36-cp36m/bin/python -m pip install numpy==1.16.6
./cp37-cp37m/bin/python -m pip install numpy==1.16.6
./cp38-cp38/bin/python -m pip install numpy==1.16.6

These commands will take a few hours because numpy doesn't have a prebuilt package yet. When completed, open a second window and run

docker ps

From the output:

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                                COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
5a796e98db05        quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_aarch64   "/bin/bash"         3 minutes ago       Up 3 minutes                            affectionate_cannon

You'll see the docker instance id is: 5a796e98db05. Use the following command to export the root filesystem as the sysroot for future use.

docker export 5a796e98db05 -o manylinux2014_aarch64.tar
4. Generate CMake toolchain file

Save the following content as tool.cmake

    SET(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Linux)    
    SET(CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION 1)    
    SET(CMAKE_C_COMPILER aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc)    
    SET(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER aarch64-linux-gnu-g++)            
    SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM NEVER)    
    SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY ONLY)    
    SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE ONLY)    
    SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PACKAGE ONLY)    
    SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH /mnt/pi)

If you don't have a sysroot, you can delete the last line.

5. Run CMake and make

Append -DONNX_CUSTOM_PROTOC_EXECUTABLE=/path/to/protoc -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=path/to/tool.cmake to your cmake args, run cmake and make to build it. If you want to build Python package as well, you can use cmake args like:

-Donnxruntime_GCC_STATIC_CPP_RUNTIME=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -Dprotobuf_WITH_ZLIB=OFF -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=path/to/tool.cmake -Donnxruntime_ENABLE_PYTHON=ON -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/mnt/pi/usr/bin/python3 -Donnxruntime_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=OFF -Donnxruntime_DEV_MODE=OFF -DONNX_CUSTOM_PROTOC_EXECUTABLE=/path/to/protoc "-DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/mnt/pi/usr/include;/mnt/pi/usr/include/python3.7m" -DNUMPY_INCLUDE_DIR=/mnt/pi/folder/to/numpy/headers

After running cmake, run

$ make
6. (Optional) Build Python package

Copy the setup.py file from the source folder to the build folder and run

python3 setup.py bdist_wheel -p linux_aarch64

If targeting manylinux, unfortunately their tools do not work in the cross-compiling scenario. Run it in a docker like:

docker run  -v /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static:/usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static -v `pwd`:/tmp/a -w /tmp/a --rm quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_aarch64 /opt/python/cp37-cp37m/bin/python3 setup.py bdist_wheel

This is not needed if you only want to target a specfic Linux distribution (i.e. Ubuntu).

Native compiling on Linux ARM device

Easy, slower

Docker build runs on a Raspberry Pi 3B with Raspbian Stretch Lite OS (Desktop version will run out memory when linking the .so file) will take 8-9 hours in total.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y \
    sudo \
    build-essential \
    curl \
    libcurl4-openssl-dev \
    libssl-dev \
    wget \
    python3 \
    python3-pip \
    python3-dev \
    git \
    tar

pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install --upgrade setuptools
pip3 install --upgrade wheel
pip3 install numpy

# Build the latest cmake
mkdir /code
cd /code
wget https://cmake.org/files/v3.13/cmake-3.13.5.tar.gz;
tar zxf cmake-3.13.5.tar.gz

cd /code/cmake-3.13.5
./configure --system-curl
make
sudo make install

# Prepare onnxruntime Repo
cd /code
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Microsoft/onnxruntime

# Start the basic build
cd /code/onnxruntime
./build.sh --config MinSizeRel --update --build

# Build Shared Library
./build.sh --config MinSizeRel --build_shared_lib

# Build Python Bindings and Wheel
./build.sh --config MinSizeRel --enable_pybind --build_wheel

# Build Output
ls -l /code/onnxruntime/build/Linux/MinSizeRel/*.so
ls -l /code/onnxruntime/build/Linux/MinSizeRel/dist/*.whl

Cross compiling on Windows

Using Visual C++ compilers

  1. Download and install Visual C++ compilers and libraries for ARM(64). If you have Visual Studio installed, please use the Visual Studio Installer (look under the section Individual components after choosing to modify Visual Studio) to download and install the corresponding ARM(64) compilers and libraries.

  2. Use .\build.bat and specify --arm or --arm64 as the build option to start building. Preferably use Developer Command Prompt for VS or make sure all the installed cross-compilers are findable from the command prompt being used to build using the PATH environmant variable.

Android

Prerequisites

The SDK and NDK packages can be installed via Android Studio or the sdkmanager command line tool. Android Studio is more convenient but a larger installation. The command line tools are smaller and usage can be scripted, but are a little more complicated to setup. They also require a Java runtime environment to be available.

General Info:

Android Studio

Install Android Studio from https://developer.android.com/studio

Install any additional SDK Platforms if necessary

  • File->Settings->Appearance & Behavior->System Settings->Android SDK to see what is currently installed
    • Note that the SDK path you need to use as --android_sdk_path when building ORT is also on this configuration page
    • Most likely you don't require additional SDK Platform packages as the latest platform can target earlier API levels.

Install an NDK version

  • File->Settings->Appearance & Behavior->System Settings->Android SDK
    • 'SDK Tools' tab
      • Select 'Show package details' checkbox at the bottom to see specific versions. By default the latest will be installed which should be fine.
  • The NDK path will be the 'ndk/{version}' subdirectory of the SDK path shown
    • e.g. if 21.1.6352462 is installed it will be {SDK path}/ndk/21.1.6352462
sdkmanager from command line tools

  • If necessary install the Java Runtime Environment and set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to it

  • For sdkmanager to work it needs a certain directory structure. First create the top level directory for the Android infrastructure.

    • in our example we'll call that .../Android/

  • Download the command line tools from the 'Command line tools only' section towards the bottom of https://developer.android.com/studio

  • Create a directory called 'cmdline-tools' under your top level directory

    • giving .../Android/cmdline-tools

  • extract the 'tools' directory from the command line tools zip file into this directory

  • you should now be able to run Android/cmdline-tools/bin/sdkmanager[.bat] successfully

    • if you see an error about it being unable to save settings and the sdkmanager help text, your directory structure is incorrect.

  • Run .../Android/cmdline-tools/bin/sdkmanager --list to see the packages available

  • Install the SDK Platform

    • Generally installing the latest is fine. You pick an API level when compiling the code and the latest platform will support many recent API levels
      • e.g. sdkmanager --install "platforms;android-29"
    • This will install into the 'platforms' directory of our top level directory
      • so the 'Android' directory in our example
    • The SDK path to use as --android_sdk_path when building is this top level directory

  • Install the NDK

    • Find the available NDK versions by running sdkmanager --list
    • Install
      • you can install a specific version or the latest (called 'ndk-bundle')
      • e.g. sdkmanager --install "ndk;21.1.6352462"
        • NDK path in our example with this install would be .../Android/ndk/21.1.6352462
      • NOTE: If you install the ndk-bundle package the path will be .../Android/ndk-bundle as there's no version number

Build Instructions

Cross compiling on Windows

The Ninja generator needs to be used to build on Windows as the Visual Studio generator doesn't support Android.

./build.bat --android --android_sdk_path <android sdk path> --android_ndk_path <android ndk path> --android_abi <android abi, e.g., arm64-v8a (default) or armeabi-v7a> --android_api <android api level, e.g., 27 (default)> --cmake_generator Ninja

e.g. using the paths from our example

./build.bat --android --android_sdk_path .../Android --android_ndk_path .../Android/ndk/21.1.6352462 --android_abi arm64-v8a --android_api 27 --cmake_generator Ninja
Cross compiling on Linux
./build.sh --android --android_sdk_path <android sdk path> --android_ndk_path <android ndk path> --android_abi <android abi, e.g., arm64-v8a (default) or armeabi-v7a> --android_api <android api level, e.g., 27 (default)>

Android Archive (AAR) files, which can be imported directly in Android Studio, will be generated in your_build_dir/java/build/outputs/aar.

If you want to use NNAPI Execution Provider on Android, see docs/execution_providers/NNAPI-ExecutionProvider.md.

Training

Prerequisites

The default NVIDIA GPU build requires CUDA runtime libraries installed on the system:

  • CUDA 10.1
  • cuDNN 7.6.2
  • NCCL v2.4.8 (download v2.4.8 from the Legacy downloads page)
  • OpenMPI 4.0.0.0
wget https://download.open-mpi.org/release/open-mpi/v4.0/openmpi-4.0.0.tar.gz
tar zxf openmpi-4.0.0.tar.gz
cd openmpi-4.0.0
./configure --enable-orterun-prefix-by-default
make -j $(nproc) all
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Build instructions

  1. Checkout this code repo with git clone https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime

  2. Set the environment variables: adjust the path for location your build machine

    export CUDA_HOME=<location for CUDA libs> # e.g. /usr/local/cuda
export CUDNN_HOME=<location for cuDNN libs> # e.g. /usr/local/cuda
export CUDACXX=<location for NVCC> #e.g. /usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc
export PATH=<location for openmpi/bin/>:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<location for openmpi/lib/>:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export MPI_CXX_INCLUDE_PATH=<location for openmpi/include/>
source <location of the mpivars script> # e.g. /data/intel/impi/2018.3.222/intel64/bin/mpivars.sh

  3. Create the ONNX Runtime wheel

    • Change to the ONNX Runtime repo base folder: cd onnxruntime
    • Run ./build.sh --enable_training --use_cuda --config=RelWithDebInfo --build_wheel

    This produces the .whl file in ./build/Linux/RelWithDebInfo/dist for ONNX Runtime Training.