This library eliminates much of the boilerplate needed to get started with OpenCL. It allows you to get started more easily and more quickly. For example to get an OpenCL context, a command queue, and a device all you'd have to do is

struct ecl_context ctx;
eclGetSomeContext(&ctx);

EasyOpenCL tries to do this without adding any layers of abstraction. The utility functions that make up the library use and return standard OpenCL types. This way it's super easy to mix and match EasyOpenCL functions with your own code.

By far the easiest way to get going with EasyOpenCL is to just grab the files ecl.h and ecl.c from the src directory and add them to your project.

EasyOpenCL consists of four functions, see ecl.h. Two of them deal with setting up OpenCL contexts, command queues, and devices, and the other two create cl_programs. Context, queue, and device are collected in struct ecl_context.

Returns some context. Use this if you really don't care about the specifics of the device and platform and just want to running OpenCL code ASAP.

Let's the user choose platform and device. This is similar to PyOpenCL's create_some_context(interactive=True).

This produces a cl_program from a source string. Use eclGetSomeContext or eclGetContextInteractively to obtain the cl_context and cl_device_id needed by this function. The main simplification that this function offers is that it handles errors that occur during the compilation. If a compilation error occurs the function obtains the compiler log and prints it to the screen.

Is the same as eclGetProgramFromSource except that the kernel source is read from a file.