Developer Guide for Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives Cryptography 2018

Setting Environment Variables

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

On Windows* OS:

ippcpvars.bat

for the IA-32 and Intel® 64 architectures.

On Linux* OS and macOS*:

Architecture Shell Script File
IA-32 and Intel® 64 C ippcpvars.csh
IA-32 and Intel® 64 Bash ippcpvars.sh

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

The scripts set the following environment variables:

Windows* OS Linux* OS macOS* Purpose
IPPCRYPTOROOT IPPCRYPTOROOT IPPCRYPTOROOT

Point to the Intel IPP Cryptography installation directory

LIB

n/a

n/a

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

PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

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

INCLUDE

n/a

n/a

Add the search path for the Intel IPP Cryptography header files