Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler System Requirements

Introduction

Learn more about the hardware, operating system, and software prerequisites for this compiler and library.

The Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler’s integrated support for Altera FPGA has been removed as of the 2025.1 release. Altera® will continue to provide FPGA support through their dedicated FPGA software development tools. Existing customers can continue to use the Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler 2025.0 release which supports FPGA development and is available through Linux* package managers such as APT, YUM/DNF, or Zypper. Additionally, customers with an active support license can access the Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler 2025.0 via their customer support account.
For more information and assistance with transitioning to the Altera development tools, please contact your Altera representative.

Hardware Requirements

CPU Requirements

Systems based on Intel® 64 architectures below are supported both as host and target platforms.

• Intel® Core™ processor family or higher
• Intel® Xeon® processor family
• Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family

Requirements for Accelerators

• GPUs:
  • Intel® UHD Graphics for 11th generation Intel processors or newer
  • Intel® Iris® Xe graphics
  • Intel® Arc™ graphics
  • Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series
  • Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series
• FPGA (2025.0 only), one of the following:
  • FPGA Board 
  • FPGA Device

NOTE: For Intel® Quartus® Prime operating system support for each version, refer to OS Support for Altera® FPGA Pro Edition Software Versions and OS Support for Altera® FPGA Standard Edition Software Versions.

​Memory Requirements

• 16 GB is for CPU and GPU development
• 64 GB for Intel FPGA development

NOTE: For Intel® FPGA development, Intel recommends configuring your system to provide virtual memory equal to the recommended physical RAM necessary to process your design.

Software Requirements

Note: These OS distributions are tested by Intel or known to work; other distributions may or may not work and are not recommended. If you have questions, access the Intel Community Forums when you need assistance.  If you have Commercial Support, create a support ticket.

Linux*

Operating Systems

NOTE: For FPGA, Intel® Quartus® Prime operating system support for your version of Intel® Quartus® Prime software might differ from these requirements. Refer to OS Support for Altera® FPGA Pro Edition Software Versions and OS Support for Altera® FPGA Standard Edition Software Versions.

GPU Driver for Linux*

• Level 0 and OpenCL  graphics drivers are required to be installed
  • To install the Linux General Purpose Intel GPUs (GPGPU) Driver, see the installation guide and follow the directions for your device.
  • Recommended driver versions for 2025.0 - LTS Driver: 2350.103, Rolling Driver: 2437.26
  • Recommended driver versions for 2025.0.1 -  LTS Driver: 2350.125, Rolling Driver: 2441.21
  • Recommended driver versions for 2025.1.0 -  LTS Driver: 2350.136, Rolling Driver: 2507.12

NOTE: For hardware compiles on FPGA, you must download Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software and BSPs separately. See Install Software for Intel FPGA Development Flows for more information.

Developer Tools

• Supported minimum versions of distributed libraries that the compilers are built on: GCC - 7.5.0, BINUTILS- 2.30, GLIBC-2.28, G++ - 7.5.0. If the highest version of GNU gcc used doesn't have the equivalent g++ package installed, the customer will run into an error. For further details, please check this article--fatal error: <C++ header> file not found with Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler
• Eclipse* developers: Eclipse 4.32
• GPU Development:
  • Latest Intel® GPU drivers from General Purpose GPU Drivers for Linux* Operating Systems. To install the Linux General Purpose Intel GPUs (GPGPU) Driver, see the installation guide and follow the directions for your device.
  • Recommended driver versions for 2025.0 - LTS Driver: 2350.103, Rolling Driver: 2437.26
  • Recommended driver versions for 2025.0.1 -  LTS Driver: 2350.125, Rolling Driver: 2441.21
  • Recommended driver versions for 2025.1.0 -  LTS Driver: 2350.136, Rolling Driver: 2507.12
• Development with Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Library:
  • Use of the range-based API requires C++17 and the C++ standard libraries that are included with GCC 8.1 (or higher) or Clang 7 (or higher).
• A known issue is causing linker errors while using Link Time Optimization(LTO) on RHEL. To resolve the issue, make sure the following minimum versions of binutils are installed:
  • RHEL 8: binutils 2.30-82.el8
• OpenMP development:
  • libffi.so.6(default version on Ubuntu 18.04). Users with newer OS versions will need to specifically install libffi.so.6.

Summary of Intel Integrated Graphics (GPU) Development

• Intel® oneAPI tools support for integrated graphics processors is available on 11th Generation and newer Intel® Core™ Processors. 
• Supported Linux kernel: 4.11 or higher deployment is required
• Supported minimum versions of distributed libraries that the compilers are built on: GCC - 7.5.0, BINUTILS- 2.30, GLIBC-2.28, G++ - 7.5.0. If the highest version of GNU gcc used doesn't have the equivalent g++ package installed, the customer will run into an error. For futher details, please check this article--fatal error: <C++ header> file not found with Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler 
• Latest Intel® GPU drivers from General Purpose GPU Drivers for Linux* Operating Systems.
• You should be on the "video" group to access hardware. Use the command below to add:
  $ usermod -a -G video $USER

Windows*

Operating Systems

GPU Driver for Windows

• Level 0 and OpenCL graphics drivers are required. Follow the installation directions in the article appropriate for your device
  • For Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics, Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics, and Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors with Intel® Arc™ Graphics install the latest driver from here. 
  • For Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series (ATS-M) install latest driver from here. 

Developer Tools

• GPU development: Latest driver from Intel® Graphics Windows DCH Drivers
• Intel® oneAPI tools support for integrated graphics processors is available on 11th Generation and newer Intel® Core™ Processors. 
• To use the Microsoft Visual Studio* development environment or command-line tools to build IA-32 or Intel® 64 architecture applications:
  • Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019, 2022 Community, Enterprise, and Professional Editions with 'Desktop development with C++' component installed
  • For additional details, see the article Intel Compilers Compatibility with Microsoft Visual Studio and Xcode.
• Intel® FPGA Development:
  • Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software (see also Intel® oneAPI Toolkits Installation Guide for Windows)
  • FPGA devices or FPGA cards for hardware compiles. 

Other Developer Tools

Visual Studio Code* (VS Code) Extensions for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits

The VS Code extensions for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits provide assistance to developers who are creating, debugging, and profiling oneAPI applications. The Using Visual Studio Code with Intel® oneAPI Toolkits User Guide provides additional detail.

The following VS Code extensions are available in the VS Code marketplace:

• Sample Browser for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
• Environment Configurator for Intel ® oneAPI Toolkits
• Analysis Configurator for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
• GDB GPU Support for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
• DevCloud Connector for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits

See also:

• Get Started with Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit for Linux
• Get Started with Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit for Windows
• Get Started with Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit and Intel® oneAPI HPC Toolkit for MacOS*

Codeplay Plugins

• To use an AMD* GPU with the Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Compiler, install the oneAPI for AMD GPUs plugin from Codeplay.
• To use an NVIDIA* GPU with the Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Compiler, install the oneAPI for NVIDIA GPUs plugin from Codeplay.

Deprecation Notices

• The following OS support is deprecated with 2025.1 release and will be discontinued with a future release

  • CPU
    • Windows Server 2019
    • RHEL 8
    • SLES15 SP5
    • Rocky 9
    • Fedora 40
  • GPU
    • RHEL 8.8

Known Issue

• N/A

Previous oneAPI Releases

• Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Compiler System Requirements 2024
• Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Compiler System Requirements 2023
• Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Compiler System Requirements 2022
• Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Compiler System Requirements 2021

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