I’m learning OpenCL using Cloo, and not surprisingly my first kernels contain errors (but I’m improving very quickly).

This piece of code gets a log of the errors from the build process. It is simple but I think it is worth to be shared because currently there are little code samples for Cloo available on the web.

    var source = @"kernel void MyCode () {...........}";
    var platform = ComputePlatform.Platforms[0];
    var devices = new List(platform.Devices.ToArray());
    var properties = new ComputeContextPropertyList(platform);
    var context = new ComputeContext(devices, properties, null, IntPtr.Zero);
    var program = new ComputeProgram(context, source);
    var statuses = new ComputeProgramBuildStatus[devices.Count];
    var buildLog = "";
    var success = true;
    try
    {
        program.Build(null, null, null, IntPtr.Zero);
    }
    catch
    {
        success = false;
        var sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = 0; i < devices.Count; ++i)
        {
            var device = devices[i];
            statuses[i] = program.GetBuildStatus(device);
            sb.Append("Device: ");
            sb.AppendLine(device.Name);
            sb.Append("Build status: ");
            sb.AppendLine(program.GetBuildStatus(device).ToString());
            sb.Append("Build log: ");
            sb.AppendLine(program.GetBuildLog(devices[0]));
        }
        buildLog = sb.ToString();
    }
    if (!success)
    {
        //manage error situation
    }