Compiling CUDA examples gives build error

Question

I am running Windows 7 64bit, with Visual Studio 2008. I installed the CUDA drivers and SDK. The SDK comes with quite a few examples including compiled executables and sour

Answer 1

You're focusing on the wrong error message.

The .obj file doesn't exist because the nvcc compile step failed.

nvcc fatal   : Visual Studio configuration file '(null)' could not be found for installation at 'c:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/VC/bin/../..'

Answer 2

You need to make sure that all the tools match. So if you have the 64-bit Visual Studio compiler installed then you should install the 64-bit version of the CUDA toolkit.

If you only have the 32-bit Visual Studio compiler, then you should be able to install the 32-bit CUDA toolkit. Ideally you would install all the 64-bit tools. Then you will be able to build both the 64-bit and 32-bit (cross-compile) examples.

Answer 3

Check if you have x64 compiler installed. Then change project type to x64. I had the same problem when trying to compile 32bit cuda program with 64bit win7.

Also make sure you have added 64bit libs and includes to the search path.