How can I setup CMake for use with Visual Studio 2017RC and CUDA 8.0?

Question

Visual Studio 2017 RC includes much tighter CMake integration, allowing one to skip the intermediate step of generating project/solution files and use CMake effectively as the p

Answer 1

The very short (and only at the time of writing) answer is that you can't. CUDA 8 doesn't support VS2017. Only VS2015 is presently supported.

You can always find the compiler/IDE versions which the release version of CUDA supports here

Edit to add that the CUDA 9 release will add official support for VS2017.

Answer 2

All you need to do is set the CUDA_HOST_COMPILER variable to a supported compiler for example the visual studio 2015 compiler.

In my case this is: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe

As both runtime libraries are binary compatible you can use the 2015 compiler within CUDA and compile all the rest of the application with the 2017 compiler.