Vtune on Archlinux?

[milian]

Hello!

Now that VTune XE update 7 was released with Linux 3.x support I hoped to finnaly get VTune running on my Archlinux boxes, but sadly it does not work. I see that Archlinux is not supported, but cannot see the big difference compard to all the other supported distributions.

When I run the installer it warns me about my distribution not being supported but then comes the strange part: Even though I have gtk 2.24.8-2 and glibc 2.14.1-4 installed, VTune's installer says it cannot find either of those and eventually fails the installation:

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Installing Amplifier XE Command line interface component... failed
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Installing Amplifier XE Sampling driver kit component... failed
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Installing Amplifier XE Graphical user interface component... failed
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The installation target directory is created but empty... Any help on how to get it running would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Mark_D_Intel · Accepted solution]

You could try manually installing the rpm files in the CLI_install/rpm and rpm/ directories.
This should be enough to run a user-mode collection (hotspots, concurrency, or locksandwaits). To enable hardware-based sampling, look in the README.txt file in the sepdk/src directory for directions on compiling and installing the driver. To view results, you might also need to copy a license file to /opt/intel/licenses, or set the environment variable INTEL_LICENSE_FILE to the directory containing the license.

Mark

[milian]

Many thanks for this useful feedback! I've now used rpmextract to get the contents of the rpm files and can - after manually installing libjpeg6 and libpng12 - run amplxe-gui.

I can load a project, but when I try to run an analysis (attach to program) I see the following error:

Cannot load resources from file '/path/to/my/vtune/resource/client.dat#zip:images.xrc'

indeed, this file (client.dat I presume) does not exist in that folder. I've now symlinked perfclient.dat to client.dat and that makes this issue go away. But after a "hotspots" analysis (yes - it worked!) I see the error again, differently:

XRC resource 'tab_*' (class 'wxImage') not found!

the resources not found are: tab_grid, tab_summary and tab_timeline. So probably I need that client.dat, which rpm should contain it, or where do I get it from?

But this is amazing, finally I have a somewhat running vtune on my archlinux box! Many thanks again, Mark!

[Mark_D_Intel]

This file (client.dat) is located in a CLI_install rpm, in intel-vtune-amplifier-xe-cli-206420-11.0-7.i486.rpm (which mostly contains the 32-bit CLI binaries and libraries). (Both 32 bit and 64 bit versions can be installed at the same time - the binaries and libs go to separate directories).

[milian]

Indeed that makes VTune work like a charm now. I thought that the non-64bit rpms should not be installed on a 64bit machine, thanks for the clarification.

I really appreciate your help here, thanks once again!

PS: I've documented the steps required to get VTune running on archlinux here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VTune#VTune_Amplifier_XE_2011

[Devendra_G_]

I am trying to install VTune 2013 Update 16 on Archlinux 3.14.2-1. However, after following the instructions here and on the archwiki (as posted in the last message), I was only able to install the RPMs. When I try to compile the drivers, I get following error.

I am using GNU compilers. Do I need to install intel compilers to compile the drivers? Any suggestions are welcome.

Warm regards,

Devendra Ghate

Makefile:615: Cannot use CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG: -fstack-protector-strong not supported by compiler

gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-fstack-protector-strong’

scripts/Makefile.build:308: recipe for target '/opt/intel/vtune_amplifier_xe_2013/sepdk/src/lwpmudrv.o' failed

[Peter_W_Intel]

@Devendra G 

The problem may be due to system environment, or you are using high Linux kernel 3.14.2-1 (gcc 4.9 supports 3.14 kernel?)

You might use MACRO CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR ( or CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE) instead of MACRO

CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG?

I don't know if latest u16 (driver test) can support kernel 3.14 well, you may try low Linux kernel platform, e.g 3.10 - if above does't work.

[Devendra_G_]

Thank you for your advice Peter. I moved back to linux 3.10.39 kernel and I was able to compile it. I need to disable the `nmi_watchdog` and it should work. Will report back if there are any further issues. By changing the kernel, I was able to compile the drivers effortlessly.

Devendra

[Peter_W_Intel]

@ Devendra G.

I am glad that the tool works on your side!