# Xs

Passes options to the backend tool. This content is specific to DPC++.

## Syntax

Linux: | -Xs -option or -Xs option

Windows: | -Xs -option or -Xs option

## Arguments

option | Is the option that you want to pass to the backend tool in device compilation. To see the values you can use for option, specify compiler option -fsycl-help to display the help information for the offline tools.

## Default

OFF | No options are passed to the backend tool.

## Description

This option passes options to the backend tool. It is a shortcut for option Xsycl-target-backend.

For example, the following option (using syntax form -Xs option):

      -Xsversion

and the following option (using syntax form -Xs -option):

      -Xs -version

are both equivalent to specifying:

      -Xsycl-target-backend -version

## IDE Equivalent

Visual Studio: Linker > General > Enable FPGA hardware build

Eclipse: Linker > General > Enable FPGA hardware build

## Alternate Options

None

Parent topic: Offload Compilation Options, OpenMP* Options, and Parallel Processing Options

## See Also

Xsycl-target compiler option