Arm Performance Libraries

Arm Performance Libraries provides developers with optimized math libraries for high-performance computing applications on Arm Neoverse-based hardware.

These libraries include highly-optimized functions for BLAS, LAPACK, FFT, sparse linear algebra, random number generation, libamath, and libastring.

Arm Performance Libraries are free to use and don’t require a license. These libraries are available for use on Windows 11 on Arm , macOS (Apple Silicon), and Linux (AArch64) hosts.

Install Arm Performance Libraries on Windows

On your Windows 11 Arm machine, go to the Arm Performance Libraries download page . Click the Download Windows section and download the Windows Installer: arm-performance-libraries_<version>_Windows.msi

Double-click to open the installer and start the Arm Performance Libraries Setup Wizard.

Read and accept the End-User License Agreement by selecting the checkbox I accept the terms of this License Agreement.

Enter a location for the installation on your system. The default is:

C:\Program Files\Arm Performance Libraries

Click Install and then Finish to complete the installation.

To install Arm Performance Libraries from a command prompt and automatically accept the End User License Agreement, run:

    

        
        
msiexec.exe /i arm-performance-libraries_<version>_Windows.msi /quiet ACCEPT_EULA=1

    

To install Arm Performance Libraries using the winget package manager and automatically accept the End User License Agreement, run:

    

        
        
winget install --accept-package-agreements Arm.ArmPerformanceLibraries

    

You can now start linking your application to the Arm Performance libraries on your Windows on Arm device. Follow the examples in the included RELEASE_NOTES file of your extracted installation directory to get started.

For more information, see Get started with Arm Performance Libraries .

Install Arm Performance Libraries on macOS

Download the appropriate package for your macOS distribution.

In a terminal, run the following command to download the macOS package:

    

        
        
wget https://developer.arm.com/-/cdn-downloads/permalink/Arm-Performance-Libraries/Version_26.01/arm-performance-libraries_26.01_macOS.tgz

    

Use tar to extract the file:

    

        
        
tar zxvf arm-performance-libraries_26.01_macOS.tgz

    

The output is similar to:

    

        
        
armpl_26.01_flang-21.dmg

    

Mount the disk image by running the following command from a terminal:

    

        
        
hdiutil attach armpl_26.01_flang-21.dmg

    

Now run the installation script as a superuser:

    

        
        
/Volumes/armpl_26.01_flang-21_installer/armpl_26.01_flang-21_install.sh -y

    

Using this command, you automatically accept the End User License Agreement and install packages to the /opt/arm directory. If you want to change the installation directory location, use the --install_dir= option with the script and provide the desired directory location.

To install Arm Performance Libraries using Homebrew in a terminal and automatically accept the End User License Agreement, run:

    

        
        
brew install arm-performance-libraries

    

The installer runs using sudo, so you may be asked to input your password.

To get started with Arm Performance Libraries on macOS, compile and test the examples in the /opt/arm/<armpl_dir>/examples/ directory, or <install_dir>/<armpl_dir>/examples/ if you installed to a different location.

For more information, see Get started with Arm Performance Libraries .

Install Arm Performance Libraries on Linux

Arm Performance Libraries are supported on most Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, RHEL, SLES, and Amazon Linux on an AArch64 host. The libraries are compatible with various versions of GCC, LLVM, and NVHPC. The GCC-compatible releases are built with GCC 14 and tested with GCC versions 7 to 14. The LLVM-compatible releases are tested with LLVM 21.1. The NVHPC-compatible releases are tested with NVHPC 25.11.

Manually download and install Arm Performance Libraries

Download the appropriate package for your Linux distribution. The deb-based installers can be used on Ubuntu 22 and Ubuntu 24. The RPM-based installers can be used on the following supported distributions:

• Amazon Linux 2, Amazon Linux 2023
• RHEL-8, RHEL-9, RHEL-10
• SLES-15 Service Packs 6 and 7

The following instructions are for deb-based installers for GCC users.

In a terminal, run the following command to download the Debian package:

    

        
        
wget https://developer.arm.com/-/cdn-downloads/permalink/Arm-Performance-Libraries/Version_26.01/arm-performance-libraries_26.01_deb_gcc.tar

    

Use tar to extract the file and then change directory:

    

        
        
tar xf arm-performance-libraries_26.01_deb_gcc.tar

    

Run the installation script as a super user:

    

        
        
sudo ./arm-performance-libraries_26.01_deb/arm-performance-libraries_26.01_deb.sh --accept

    

Using the --accept switch, you automatically accept the End User License Agreement and the packages are installed to the /opt/arm directory.

If you want to change the installation directory location, use the --install-to option with the script and provide the desired directory location.

Download and install Arm Performance Libraries using system packages

Arm Performance Libraries are available to install using Linux system package managers. The following instructions are for the Ubuntu system package manager apt command.

Add the Arm Performance Libraries apt package repository to your system:

    

        
        
. /etc/os-release
curl "https://developer.arm.com/packages/arm-toolchains:${NAME,,}-${VERSION_ID/%.*/}/${VERSION_CODENAME}/Release.key" | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/developer-arm-com.asc
echo "deb https://developer.arm.com/packages/arm-toolchains:${NAME,,}-${VERSION_ID/%.*/}/${VERSION_CODENAME}/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/developer-arm-com.list
sudo apt update

    

Download and install Arm Performance Libraries:

    

        
        
sudo apt install arm-performance-libraries

    

Set up the environment for Arm Performance Libraries

Install environment modules on your Linux machine:

    

        
        
sudo apt install environment-modules

    

Set your bash environment to use the modules:

    

        
        
source /usr/share/modules/init/bash

    

Set the MODULEPATH environment variable to point to the location of the installed modulefiles for Arm Performance Libraries:

    

        
        
export MODULEPATH=$MODULEPATH:/opt/arm/modulefiles

    

List the available modules:

    

        
        
module avail

    

The output is similar to:

    

        
        armpl/26.01.0_gcc

        
    

Load the appropriate module:

    

        
        
module load armpl/26.01.0_gcc

    

To get started with Arm Performance Libraries on Linux, compile and test the examples in the /opt/arm/<armpl_dir>/examples/ directory, or <install_dir>/<armpl_dir>/examples/ if you installed to a different location.

For more information, see Get started with Arm Performance Libraries .