Modern CMake and CUDA Example
This is an example of a simple CUDA project which is built using modern CMake (>= 3.12) tooling.
Building on Windows 10
CMake 3.12 or greater is required.
Note: This is due to a workaround for a lack of compatability between CUDA 9.2 and the latest Visual Studio 2017 (15.8 at time of writing). CUDA requires the Visual Studio compiler toolset to be <= to the version shipped with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6. To work around this, we can install the older toolset side-by-side with our current Visual Studio installation.
To do so, open the Visual Studio Installer, click to Modify the selected installation and then ensure that VC++ 2017 version 15.6 v14.13 toolset is selected under Individual Components.
PS> cmake --version
cmake version 3.12.1
# Ensure you're using 3.12 or greater!
We now configure CMake and specify to use the 14.13 toolset version, which is the latest known version compatible with CUDA 9.2.
PS> cmake . -Bbuild -G"Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -T"version=14.13"
Now, you can either open the .sln file in the build/ directory and build with Visual Studio, or you can build form the command line.
PS> cd build
PS> cmake --build .
PS> .\Debug\cmake_cuda.exe
1, 0
2, 0
2, 5
5, 5
0, 10
A note on Visual Studio 2017 CMake Support
At the time of writing, Visual Studio ships with a custom CMake version of CMake 3.11 which does not support the -T version=xyz flag.
For this reason, it is recommended to configure with a locally installed CMake as above, and then open the solution in Visual Studio 2017.