diff --git a/.devops/cloud-v-pipeline b/.devops/cloud-v-pipeline
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f3a4944f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.devops/cloud-v-pipeline
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+node('x86_runner1'){            // Running on x86 runner containing latest vector qemu, latest vector gcc and all the necessary libraries
+    stage('Cleanup'){
+        cleanWs()               // Cleaning previous CI build in workspace
+    }
+    stage('checkout repo'){
+        retry(5){               // Retry if the cloning fails due to some reason
+            checkout scm        // Clone the repo on Runner
+        }
+    }
+    stage('Compiling llama.cpp'){
+        sh'''#!/bin/bash
+            make RISCV=1 RISCV_CROSS_COMPILE=1 # Compiling llama for RISC-V
+        '''
+    }
+    stage('Running llama.cpp'){
+        sh'''#!/bin/bash
+            module load gnu-bin2/0.1            # loading latest versions of vector qemu and vector gcc
+            qemu-riscv64 -L /softwares/gnu-bin2/sysroot  -cpu rv64,v=true,vlen=256,elen=64,vext_spec=v1.0 ./main -m /home/alitariq/codellama-7b.Q4_K_M.gguf -p "Anything" -n 9 > llama_log.txt            # Running llama.cpp on vector qemu-riscv64
+            cat llama_log.txt                   # Printing results
+        '''
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5b65dd1f2..2fe89cf4e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ ifndef UNAME_M
 UNAME_M := $(shell uname -m)
 endif
 
+ifdef RISCV_CROSS_COMPILE
+CC	:= riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc
+	CXX	:= riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu-g++
+endif
+
+CCV := $(shell $(CC) --version | head -n 1)
+CXXV := $(shell $(CXX) --version | head -n 1)
+
 # Mac OS + Arm can report x86_64
 # ref: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/issues/66#issuecomment-1282546789
 ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Darwin)
@@ -286,8 +294,8 @@ ifneq ($(filter ppc64%,$(UNAME_M)),)
 endif
 
 else
-	MK_CFLAGS   += -march=rv64gcv -mabi=lp64d
-	MK_CXXFLAGS += -march=rv64gcv -mabi=lp64d
+	CFLAGS += -march=rv64gcv -mabi=lp64d
+	CXXFLAGS +=  -march=rv64gcv -mabi=lp64d
 endif
 
 ifndef LLAMA_NO_K_QUANTS