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sst-config

sst-config is a command line utlity that queries SST's configuration to retrieve information about how SST was compiled and libraries that have been registered with it. A common use of this command is to pull compiler flags for element library compilation. Passing the --help flag to sst-config will print a brief usage description.

$ sst-config
$ sst-config --<KEY>  # Valid for keys belonging to the SSTCore group only
$ sst-config <GROUP> <KEY>
  • GROUP (Optional) Which group to search. Must be used with the KEY argument.
  • KEY (Optional) Which key value to return. If GROUP is not specified, the SSTCore group will be searched.

Examples​

$ sst-config
# Group: DRAMSIM ----------------------------------------------------------------
LIBDIR=
# Group: DRAMSIM3 ---------------------------------------------------------------
LIBDIR=
# Group: FDSIM ------------------------------------------------------------------
LIBDIR=
# Group: GOBLIN_HMCSIM ----------------------------------------------------------
LIBDIR=/home/sst/ext/gc64-hmcsim-sst-8.0.0-release
# Group: HBMDRAMSIM -------------------------------------------------------------
LIBDIR=
# Group: HYBRIDSIM --------------------------------------------------------------
LIBDIR=
# Group: NVDIMMSIM --------------------------------------------------------------
LIBDIR=
# Group: RAMULATOR --------------------------------------------------------------
LIBDIR=
# Group: SSTCore ----------------------------------------------------------------
AR=ar
CC=gcc
CFLAGS=
CORE_TEST_ELEMENT_LIBDIR=/home/sst/build/sst-core/lib/sstcore
CPP=gcc -E
CXX=g++
CXXCPP=g++ -E
CXXFLAGS= -std=c++17
ELEMENT_CXXFLAGS= -std=c++17 -fPIC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/home/sst/build/sst-core/include
ELEMENT_LDFLAGS=-shared -fno-common -Wl,-undefined -Wl,dynamic_lookup
LD=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/ld
...
...

Locate the compiler used to compile SST​

$ sst-config --CXX
g++

Determine the path to the sst-elements libraries​

$ sst-config SST_ELEMENT_LIBRARY SST_ELEMENT_LIBRARY_BINDIR
/home/sst/build/sst-elements/bin

Understanding the SST configuration file​

When SST-Core is compiled, it generates a configuration file. This file can be found in $SSTCORE_BUILD_DIR/etc/sst/sstsimulator.conf. As elements are registered with SST using sst-register, information about those elements is added to this same file. The file is separated into sections called groups. Each group has a name which is enclosed in square brackets. Any lines following a group name belong to the most recently declared group. Common groups that can be found in the file include:

  • SSTCore Information about the core compilation including compiler and linker flags, compiler version, python version and flags, etc.
  • SST_ELEMENT_SOURCE When element libraries register their source code location with SST, the paths are captured in this group.
  • SST_ELEMENT_TESTS This group records the location of testsuites that have been registered with SST and is used by the SST test infrastructure to locate available tests.
  • SST_ELEMENT_LIBRARY If you have built and installed elements from the sst-elements repository, you will see this group. It contains the library install path. Other elements should be registered to their own groups, for example the sst-external-element repository registers its simpleExternalElement library under a group of the same name: simpleExternalElement.

What is available through sst-config​

One of the important usages of sst-config is to acquire information about how sst was compiled for subsequent element compilations. Some of the critical keys

           If <GROUP> not specified this is found in
           the 'SSTCore' default group.

Examples​

All config values​

sst-config

C++ compiler​

sst-config --CXX

C++ compiler flags​

sst-config --ELEMENT_CXXFLAGS

C++ LD flags​

sst-config --ELEMENT_LDFLAGS

In a makefile​

CXX=$(shell sst-config --CXX)
CXXFLAGS=$(shell sst-config --ELEMENT_CXXFLAGS)
LDFLAGS=$(shell sst-config --ELEMENT_LDFLAGS)

See Also​