[Development] Updating x86 SIMD support in Qt

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 20:34:07 -03 Volker Hilsheimer wrote:
> I have a possibly wrong hunch that building Qt Multimedia fails because of
> this. This is in a Ubuntu 20.04 VM in the VMware Fusion 12 provider, and
> the hardware version is maxed out (it wasn’t earlier, but didn’t help to
> put it to level 18). So there’s not a whole lot I can do on the VM
> provisioning side, I think.

> /home/vagrant/dev-build/qtbase/include/QtCore/6.4.0/QtCore/private/../../../
> ../../../../qt/dev/qtbase/src/corelib/global/qsimd_p.h:256:8: error: #error
> "Please enable all x86-64-v3 extensions; you probably want to use
> -march=haswell or -march=x86-64-v3 instead of -mavx2"

> /home/vagrant/dev-build/qtbase/include/QtCore/6.4.0/QtCore/private/../../../
> ../../../../qt/dev/qtbase/src/corelib/global/qsimd_p.h:253:81: error:
> ‘__FMA__’ was not declared in this scope> 

By the way, please note that VirtualBox enables AVX2 but not FMA and some of 
the other required functionality for x86-64-v3. So a VirtualBox environment is 
*not* x86-64-v3 and therefore you cannot run such binaries and you cannot 
compile Qt with -march=native in it.

As far as I know, this is a problem exclusive to VirtualBox. It wouldn't 
affect VMWare or qemu KVM-accelerated virtualisation. I also haven't noticed 
it on Parallels on my Mac. It's been reported but hasn't been fixed.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering