libcpuid

libcpuid provides CPU identification. Supported CPU architectures are:

• x86:
  • 32-bit CPUs (IA-32, also known as i386, i486, i586 and i686)
  • 64-bit CPUs (x86_64, also known as x64, AMD64, and Intel 64)
• ARM (since v0.7.0):
  • 64-bit CPUs (ARM64, also known as AArch64)

For details about the programming API, you might want to take a look at the project's website on sourceforge (https://libcpuid.sourceforge.net). There you'd find a short tutorial, as well as the full API reference.

Getting started

You have two ways to get libcpuid:

• build it from sources
• download a pre-compiled binary

Sources

Prerequisites

Using libcpuid requires no dependencies on any of the supported OSes. Building it requires build tool commands to be available, which is a matter of installing a few common packages with related names (e.g. automake, autoconf, libtool, cmake). It also requires a POSIX-compatible shell. On NetBSD, you may need to install one (credits to @brucelilly):

1. Install a POSIX-compatible shell such as ksh93

pkg_add ast-ksh || pkgin in ast-ksh

2. Export CONFIG_SHELL with correct path if required:

export CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/pkg/bin/ksh93

Configuring after checkout

Two build systems are supported, use the one you prefer.

By using autotools

Under POSIX systems, where you download the sources, there's no configure script to run. This is because it isn't a good practice to keep such scripts in a source control system. To create it, you need to run the following commands once, after you checkout the libcpuid sources from GitHub:

libtoolize
autoreconf --install

You need to have autoconf, automake and libtool installed.

After that you can run ./configure and make - this will build the library.

make dist will create a tarball (with "configure" inside) with the sources.

By using CMake

Basic example to build and install libcpuid by using CMake:

cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
cmake --build build
cmake --install build # may need administrative privileges, install under /usr/local by default

Downloads

You can find latest versioned archives here, with binaries for macOS and Windows.

Binary packages

Also, libcpuid is available for following systems in official repositories:

• Arch Linux: pacman -S libcpuid
• Debian (since version 11 "Bullseye"): apt install cpuidtool libcpuid-dev
• Fedora (since version 25): dnf install libcpuid libcpuid-devel
• FreeBSD (since version 11): pkg install libcpuid
• OpenMandriva Lx (since version 4.0 "Nitrogen"): dnf install libcpuid-tools libcpuid-devel
• openSUSE Leap (since version 15.1): zypper install libcpuid-tools libcpuid-devel
• Solus: eopkg install libcpuid libcpuid-devel
• Ubuntu (since version 20.04 "Focal Fossa") : apt install cpuidtool libcpuid-dev

Below, the full lists of repositories:

Build tool

• Vcpkg: vcpkg install cpuid

Contributing

Refer to the dedicated page.

Users

So far, I'm aware of the following projects which utilize libcpuid (listed alphabetically):

• CPU-X (https://github.com/TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X)
• fre:ac (https://www.freac.org/)
• I-Nex (https://github.com/i-nex/I-Nex)
• Multiprecision Computing Toolbox for MATLAB (https://www.advanpix.com/)
• ucbench (http://anrieff.net/ucbench)

We'd love to hear from you if you are also using libcpuid and want your project listed above.