Snaps and OpenCL

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Dear, I’m trying to run my OpenCL snap app (installed using --devmode) with the proprietary AMDGPU-Pro driver.

  1. I expected it to work immediately (--devmode: a similar way to traditional .deb packages). But it doesn’t.
  2. I can make it work. Just running:
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/var/lib/snapd/hostfs/opt/amdgpu-pro/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:/var/lib/snapd/hostfs/opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
  3. So, I created inside snapcraft.yaml the workaround seen below (but this is not allowed):
layout:
  /opt/amdgpu-pro:
    bind: /var/lib/snapd/hostfs/opt/amdgpu-pro
  /opt/amdgpu:
    bind: /var/lib/snapd/hostfs/opt/amdgpu

Do you guys have any advice? I mean, a regular user can understand that to access OpenCL using proprietary drivers he/she needs to skip the sandboxing for a while. But even that is not working.

Just to be clear, HPC using OpenCL requires proprietary drivers. I saw you are working on NVIDIA support. AMD does not deserve much attention, but, a workaround is a possiblility

Please, move to a new topic if that makes sense.