Developer Guide for Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives

Setting Environment Variables

When the installation of Intel IPP is complete, set the environment variables in the command shell using one of the script files in the env subdirectory of the Intel IPP installation directory:

On Windows* OS:

vars.bat

for the IA-32 and Intel® 64 architectures.

On Linux* OS and macOS*:

vars.sh

Linux* OS: for the IA-32 and Intel® 64 architectures. macOS*: for the Intel® 64 architectures.

When using the vars script, you need to specify the architecture as a parameter. For example:

The scripts set the following environment variables:

Windows* OS Linux* OS Purpose
IPPROOT IPPROOT

Point to the Intel IPP installation directory

LIB

n/a

Add the search path for the Intel IPP single-threaded libraries

PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Add the search path for the Intel IPP single-threaded DLLs

INCLUDE

n/a

Add the search path for the Intel IPP header files