CMAKE_ARGS?= BUILD_TYPE?= NATIVE?=false GOCMD?=go GO_TAGS?= # nproc doesn't exist on the macOS runners: an empty JOBS turns `-j$(JOBS)` # into bare `-j` (unlimited clang jobs), which swap-thrashes the 3-core Mac # until the 6h GHA timeout. Fall back to sysctl there, then to a constant. JOBS?=$(shell nproc --ignore=1 2>/dev/null || sysctl -n hw.ncpu 2>/dev/null || echo 4) # vllm.cpp version VLLM_CPP_REPO?=https://github.com/mudler/vllm.cpp VLLM_CPP_VERSION?=59343930f37ba08abfccb8de544bc51fc3828b16 # MLX GEMM provider (darwin/metal only; see the metal branch below for why). # Consumed as the prebuilt pip wheel: building MLX from source needs `xcrun # metal`, i.e. a full Xcode the macOS runners do not have, while the wheel ships # include/, lib/libmlx.dylib and the compiled mlx.metallib ready to link. # # DEFAULT ON, but ONLY because VLLM_CPP_VERSION above is pinned at or past # vllm.cpp 89c46aeb, which SHAPE-GATES the provider to prefill. The ordering is # load-bearing, not incidental: # # pin >= 89c46aeb, MLX on -> 99.1% of MLX-LM (gated: prefill only) # pin < 89c46aeb, MLX on -> ~51% (ungated: it also takes decode) # # MLX's steel GEMM wins prefill (537 ms TTFT against 602) and loses decode badly, # because the provider pays an mx::eval sync plus an output memcpy per call and # decode makes ~112 calls per TOKEN. Ungated it does both; gated it does only the # good half. So if this pin is ever moved BACKWARDS, this default must go with it. VLLM_CPP_MLX?=on MLX_VERSION?=0.29.3 MLX_VENV?=$(abspath ./mlx-venv) # Resolved lazily (recursive `=`, not `:=`): the glob only matches once the venv # target has run, and the interpreter version in the path varies per runner. MLX_ROOT=$(shell echo $(MLX_VENV)/lib/python*/site-packages/mlx) # The backend consumes only the stable C ABI (libvllm + include/vllm.h), so the # server, examples and tests of the engine are never built here. CMAKE_ARGS+=-DVLLM_CPP_SERVER=OFF -DVLLM_CPP_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DVLLM_CPP_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF CMAKE_ARGS+=-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release # vllm.cpp sets no global -march: SIMD tiers are per-file with runtime dispatch, # so ONE portable library serves every CPU of the target arch (unlike the # ggml-based backends and their avx/avx2/avx512 variant builds). UNAME_M := $(shell uname -m) ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),cublas) # Blackwell-family targets only: other CUDA arches are build-supported # upstream but have no runtime-proven fast path. amd64 gets the consumer # (120a) + GB10 (121a) fat binary; arm64 CUDA (l4t-style images, DGX # Spark) is GB10 only. Triton-AOT GDN cubins are vendored per-arch, no # Python needed to consume them. ifeq ($(UNAME_M),x86_64) # NO -DVLLM_CPP_TRITON on fat builds: the vendored Triton-AOT cubin # trees are per-arch and the engine refuses a multi-arch build unless # pinned to one tree (unsound for the other arch). The non-AOT GDN # path serves the fat binary; single-arch builds keep the cubins. # # CUDA builds REQUIRE the CUDA 13 toolchain: 12.x nvcc lacks # compute_121a (GB10) and its ptxas rejects the sm_120a NVFP4 MMA # kernels ("Vector type too large"), so no cuda-12 variant is shipped. ifeq ($(CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION),12) $(error vllm.cpp needs the CUDA 13 toolchain: CUDA 12.x cannot compile the Blackwell fp4 kernels) endif CMAKE_ARGS+=-DVLLM_CPP_CUDA=ON "-DVLLM_CPP_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=120a;121a" else CMAKE_ARGS+=-DVLLM_CPP_CUDA=ON -DVLLM_CPP_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=121a -DVLLM_CPP_TRITON=ON endif else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),vulkan) CMAKE_ARGS+=-DVLLM_CPP_VULKAN=ON -DVLLM_CPP_CUDA=OFF else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),metal) CMAKE_ARGS+=-DVLLM_CPP_METAL=ON # The optional MLX GEMM provider. vllm.cpp keeps it OFF by default because it # is a ~19 MB libmlx.dylib plus a ~105 MB mlx.metallib, and upstream's # position is that it must earn that cost by measurement. It does, on the # only hardware this build targets: measured on an Apple M4 against the # native MSL GEMM in the SAME binary (arms toggled by # VT_OP_PROVIDER_DISABLE=mlx), Qwen3-1.7B-bf16 p=512 g=128, it is 1.5x to # 2.2x aggregate throughput and 2x to 3x faster TTFT, at equal peak memory # and bit-identical output on every parity shape. See vllm.cpp # docs/BENCHMARKS.md "MLX GEMM provider A/B on Apple M4". # # MLX delegates the dense GEMM ONLY: kPagedAttention stays vllm.cpp's own # kernel, because MLX has no paged-KV primitive at all. # # Set VLLM_CPP_MLX=off for a Metal build without it (smaller image, slower). ifeq ($(VLLM_CPP_MLX),on) MLX_ENABLED=1 endif else CMAKE_ARGS+=-DVLLM_CPP_CUDA=OFF endif UNAME_S := $(shell uname -s) ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Darwin) LIB=libvllm.dylib else LIB=libvllm.so endif sources/vllm.cpp: mkdir -p sources/vllm.cpp cd sources/vllm.cpp && \ git init && \ git remote add origin $(VLLM_CPP_REPO) && \ git fetch --depth 1 origin $(VLLM_CPP_VERSION) && \ git checkout FETCH_HEAD ifeq ($(MLX_ENABLED),1) # A stamp FILE, not a phony target: a phony prerequisite is always "newer" than # $(LIB) and would re-link libvllm on every invocation. Keyed on the version so # a MLX_VERSION bump reinstalls instead of silently reusing the old wheel. MLX_STAMP=$(MLX_VENV)/.mlx-$(MLX_VERSION).stamp MLX_CMAKE_ARGS=-DVLLM_CPP_MLX=ON -DMLX_ROOT=$(MLX_ROOT) $(MLX_STAMP): @if [ ! -x "$(MLX_VENV)/bin/pip" ]; then \ python3 -m venv "$(MLX_VENV)" || { echo "vllm-cpp: python3 with venv is required to build the MLX provider; pass VLLM_CPP_MLX=off to build Metal without it" >&2; exit 1; }; \ fi "$(MLX_VENV)"/bin/pip install --quiet --disable-pip-version-check "mlx==$(MLX_VERSION)" @# Resolved in the SHELL, not by $(MLX_ROOT): make expands a whole recipe @# before running its first line, so the glob would still be unmatched here. @# Every later use (the cmake args, package.sh) expands after this target has @# completed, where $(MLX_ROOT) does resolve. @root=$$(echo "$(MLX_VENV)"/lib/python*/site-packages/mlx); \ test -f "$$root/lib/libmlx.dylib" -a -f "$$root/include/mlx/array.h" || \ { echo "vllm-cpp: mlx==$(MLX_VERSION) did not provide lib/libmlx.dylib + include/mlx/array.h under $$root" >&2; exit 1; } touch $@ else MLX_STAMP= MLX_CMAKE_ARGS= endif $(LIB): sources/vllm.cpp $(MLX_STAMP) mkdir -p build && \ cd build && \ cmake ../sources/vllm.cpp $(CMAKE_ARGS) $(MLX_CMAKE_ARGS) && \ cmake --build . --config Release -j$(JOBS) --target vllm_shared cp -fL build/$(LIB) ./$(LIB) vllm-cpp: main.go govllmcpp.go backend.go options.go $(LIB) CGO_ENABLED=0 $(GOCMD) build -tags "$(GO_TAGS)" -o vllm-cpp ./ package: vllm-cpp MLX_ROOT="$(MLX_ROOT)" bash package.sh build: package clean: purge rm -rf libvllm.so libvllm.dylib package sources/vllm.cpp vllm-cpp "$(MLX_VENV)" purge: rm -rf build .NOTPARALLEL: # The unit specs are pure Go (struct mirrors, option mapping, load # validation): no libvllm build is needed. The e2e specs skip unless # VLLM_CPP_MODEL points at a real model (then build the lib first). test: @echo "Running vllm-cpp tests..." bash test.sh @echo "vllm-cpp tests completed." all: vllm-cpp package