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scripts/README.md

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+# OpenCL Header Code Generation
+
+## Introduction
+
+In order to ease maintenance and enable faster development in the OpenCL headers, the OpenCL headers for extensions are generated from the OpenCL XML machine readable grammar.
+Currently, header generation is only enabled for the OpenCL headers for extensions, and the OpenCL headers for core APIs are still authored manually.
+
+## Dependencies
+
+The OpenCL headers are generated using Python [Mako Templates](https://www.makotemplates.org/).
+
+In most cases, after installing Python for your platform, Mako may be installed using:
+
+```sh
+$ pip install Mako
+```
+
+## Making Changes
+
+Most changes only require modifications to the Mako templates.
+Small changes modifying syntax or layout are simple and straightforward.
+Occasionally, more complicated changes will be required, say when a new API is added that is unlike any previous API or when a new extension header file is needed, but this should be rare.
+
+The Python script should only need to be modified if additional information needs to be propagated from the XML file into the Mako template itself.
+
+## Generating Headers
+
+The script to generate headers requires the `cl.xml` machine readable grammar.
+The latest version of `cl.xml` may be found in the Khronos OpenCL-Docs repo [here](https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenCL-Docs/blob/main/xml/cl.xml).
+
+The easiest way to generate new headers is by using the `headers_generate` target.
+For example, from a directory used to build the headers, simply execute:
+
+```sh
+$ cmake --build . --target headers_generate
+```
+
+The `cl.xml` file used to generate headers with the header generation target may be provided by setting the CMake variable `OPENCL_HEADERS_XML_PATH` to the full path to `cl.xml`.

scripts/requirements.txt

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-Mako==1.1.0
+Mako>=1.2.2