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Edward Yang 62f4db6d8a Unify build_caffe2_amd.py and build_pytorch_amd.py (#14769)
Summary:
I need to preserve ability to HIPify out-of-place files
only, so build_amd.py grows a --out-of-place-only flag.

Stacked on #14757
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/14769

Differential Revision: D13340154

Pulled By: ezyang

fbshipit-source-id: 1b855bc79e824ea94517a893236fd2c8ba4cb79d
2018-12-05 09:26:12 -08:00

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This folder contains a number of scripts which are used as part of the PyTorch build process. This directory also doubles as a Python module hierarchy (thus the __init__.py).

Overview

Modern infrastructure:

  • autograd - Code generation for autograd. This includes definitions of all our derivatives.
  • jit - Code generation for JIT
  • shared - Generic infrastructure that scripts in tools may find useful.
    • module_loader.py - Makes it easier to import arbitrary Python files in a script, without having to add them to the PYTHONPATH first.

Legacy infrastructure (we should kill this):

  • nnwrap - Generates the THNN/THCUNN wrappers which make legacy functionality available. (TODO: What exactly does this implement?)
  • cwrap - Implementation of legacy code generation for THNN/THCUNN. This is used by nnwrap.

Build system pieces:

  • setup_helpers - Helper code for searching for third-party dependencies on the user system.
  • build_pytorch_libs.sh - Script that builds all of the constituent libraries of PyTorch, but not the PyTorch Python extension itself. We are working on eliminating this script in favor of a unified cmake build.
  • build_pytorch_libs.bat - Same as above, but for Windows.
  • build_libtorch.py - Script for building libtorch, a standalone C++ library without Python support. This build script is tested in CI.

Developer tools which you might find useful:

Important if you want to run on AMD GPU:

  • amd_build - HIPify scripts, for transpiling CUDA into AMD HIP. Right now, PyTorch and Caffe2 share logic for how to do this transpilation, but have separate entry-points for transpiling either PyTorch or Caffe2 code.
    • build_amd.py - Top-level entry point for HIPifying our codebase.

Tools which are only situationally useful: