nvcc.exe linking error Microsoft Visual Studio configuration file 'vcvars64.bat' could not found

Question

I want to use nvcc -ptx from windows command line, but I always get this error message: nvcc : fatal error : Microsoft Visual Studio configuration file \'vcvars

Answer 1

From NVIDIA CUDA Compiler Driver document

1.2. Supported Host Compilers nvcc uses the following compilers for host code compilation:

On Linux platforms

The GNU compiler, gcc, and arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ for cross compilation to the ARMv7 architecture

On Windows platforms

The Microsoft Visual Studio compiler, cl On both platforms, the compiler found on the current execution search path will be used, unless nvcc option -compiler-bindir is specified (see File and Path Specifications).