Currently Altera OpenCL SDK only support Visual Studio toolkit from VS2010 to VS2014. To correctly set the environment for the OpenCL compiler, run the vcvars64.bat provided by Visual Studio. If you want to use VS2015 or newer version, make sure to include the legacy_stdio_definitions.lib and define __iob_func().
Set board-spec file (_mmd.dll) directory to environment variable path
Compile host program in Visual Studio 2017, and compile device program (.aocx) using command:
for A10GX FPGA board, use aoc ssd_fft_gpu_kernel.cl -o ssd_fft_gpu.aocx --board a10gx
for emulator, use aoc -march=emulator ssd_fft_gpu_kernel.cl -o ssd_fft_gpu.aocx
which generate aocx files
Execute emulator in command prompt: first run the vcvars64.bat, and set CL_CONTEXT_EMULATOR_DEVICE_ALTERA=1, then cd to x64/Debug and execute ssd_fft_GUI