cmake/Modules/FindAVX.cmake

INCLUDE(CheckCSourceRuns)
INCLUDE(CheckCSourceCompiles)
INCLUDE(CheckCXXSourceRuns)

SET(AVX_CODE "
  #include <immintrin.h>

  int main()
  {
    __m256 a;
    a = _mm256_set1_ps(0);
    return 0;
  }
")

SET(AVX512_CODE "
  #include <immintrin.h>

  int main()
  {
    __m512i a = _mm512_set_epi8(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                                0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                                0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                                0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                                0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                                0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                                0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                                0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
    __m512i b = a;
    __mmask64 equality_mask = _mm512_cmp_epi8_mask(a, b, _MM_CMPINT_EQ);
    return 0;
  }
")

SET(AVX2_CODE "
  #include <immintrin.h>

  int main()
  {
    __m256i a = {0};
    a = _mm256_abs_epi16(a);
    __m256i x;
    _mm256_extract_epi64(x, 0); // we rely on this in our AVX2 code
    return 0;
  }
")

MACRO(CHECK_SSE lang type flags)
  SET(__FLAG_I 1)
  SET(CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS_SAVE ${CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS})
  FOREACH(__FLAG ${flags})
    IF(NOT ${lang}_${type}_FOUND)
      SET(CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS ${__FLAG})
      IF(lang STREQUAL "CXX")
        CHECK_CXX_SOURCE_COMPILES("${${type}_CODE}" ${lang}_HAS_${type}_${__FLAG_I})
      ELSE()
        CHECK_C_SOURCE_COMPILES("${${type}_CODE}" ${lang}_HAS_${type}_${__FLAG_I})
      ENDIF()
      IF(${lang}_HAS_${type}_${__FLAG_I})
        SET(${lang}_${type}_FOUND TRUE CACHE BOOL "${lang} ${type} support")
        SET(${lang}_${type}_FLAGS "${__FLAG}" CACHE STRING "${lang} ${type} flags")
      ENDIF()
      MATH(EXPR __FLAG_I "${__FLAG_I}+1")
    ENDIF()
  ENDFOREACH()
  SET(CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS ${CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS_SAVE})

  IF(NOT ${lang}_${type}_FOUND)
    SET(${lang}_${type}_FOUND FALSE CACHE BOOL "${lang} ${type} support")
    SET(${lang}_${type}_FLAGS "" CACHE STRING "${lang} ${type} flags")
  ENDIF()

  MARK_AS_ADVANCED(${lang}_${type}_FOUND ${lang}_${type}_FLAGS)

ENDMACRO()

CHECK_SSE(C "AVX" " ;-mavx;/arch:AVX")
CHECK_SSE(C "AVX2" " ;-mavx2 -mfma -mf16c;/arch:AVX2")
CHECK_SSE(C "AVX512" " ;-mavx512f -mavx512dq -mavx512vl -mavx512bw -mfma;/arch:AVX512")

CHECK_SSE(CXX "AVX" " ;-mavx;/arch:AVX")
CHECK_SSE(CXX "AVX2" " ;-mavx2 -mfma -mf16c;/arch:AVX2")
CHECK_SSE(CXX "AVX512" " ;-mavx512f -mavx512dq -mavx512vl -mavx512bw -mfma;/arch:AVX512")