diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8206fd2..47aa05f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ set(CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
 # Audio tokenizer tensor names can exceed default GGML_MAX_NAME of 64
 add_compile_definitions(GGML_MAX_NAME=128)
 
-# Harden: mark fread/fwrite/etc with warn_unused_result on all platforms
-if(NOT MSVC)
+# Harden: mark fread/fwrite/etc with warn_unused_result on all platforms.
+# Disabled for SYCL: _FORTIFY_SOURCE replaces memcpy with __memcpy_chk
+# which is unresolvable in GPU device code and aborts kernel compilation.
+if(NOT MSVC AND NOT GGML_SYCL)
     add_compile_definitions(_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2)
 endif()
 
@@ -79,7 +81,7 @@ macro(link_ggml_backends target)
     if(TARGET ggml-base)
         target_link_libraries(${target} PRIVATE ggml-base)
     endif()
-    foreach(backend cpu blas cuda metal vulkan)
+    foreach(backend cpu blas cuda metal vulkan sycl)
         if(TARGET ggml-${backend})
             get_target_property(CURRENT_BACKEND_TYPE ggml-${backend} TYPE)
             if (CURRENT_BACKEND_TYPE STREQUAL "MODULE_LIBRARY")
@@ -90,6 +92,11 @@ macro(link_ggml_backends target)
             target_link_libraries(${target} PRIVATE ggml-${backend})
         endif()
     endforeach()
+    # SYCL backend links the runtime PRIVATE, so consumers need -fsycl
+    # on their own link line to resolve libsycl.so symbols.
+    if(TARGET ggml-sycl AND GGML_SYCL)
+        target_link_options(${target} PRIVATE -fsycl)
+    endif()
     add_dependencies(${target} version)
 endmacro()
 
diff --git a/buildsycl.sh b/buildsycl.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0fe3818
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildsycl.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+rm -rf build
+mkdir build
+cd build
+
+cmake .. -DGGML_SYCL=ON -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx
+cmake --build . --config Release -j "$(nproc)"