[CMake] CMake CUDA 3.8+/9 support as a first class language with out Visual Studio Support... err what?

[Christian Mazakas]

I tried using VS solutions and MSBuild but building was still serialized.
Ninja is just better for Windows.

On Jul 28, 2017 9:06 AM, "Robert Maynard" <robert.maynard at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Just to clarify the CUDA and CMake situation.
>
> CMake 3.8 added the initial first class support of CUDA to CMake (
> instead of using FindCUDA ). This work only supports the makefile and
> ninja generators, which means that the visual studio IDE generator is
> not supported. This doesn't mean that the Visual Studio compiler isn't
> supported, as you still could use ninja or makefile with the VS
> compiler.
>
> CMake 3.9 added the support for the visual studio generator for CUDA.
> The approach that was used was to call out to the existing MSBuild
> CUDA extensions that NVIDIA provides. With 3.9 all generators are
> considered to be 'first class' in regards to CUDA.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:28 PM, J. Caleb Wherry <calebwherry at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Not sure I understand your question but Visual Studio support just
> lagged a
> > version for that feature. It is available in CMake 3.9:
> >
> > https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.9/release/3.9.html
> >
> > Or are you asking before this version how was CUDA supported?
> >
> > -Caleb
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:07 PM Brian Davis <bitminer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Can someone explain to me the meaning of the statement at:
> >>
> >> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/release/3.8.html?highlight=cuda
> >>
> >>
> >> Make learned to support CUDA as a first-class language that can be
> enabled
> >> via the project() and enable_language() commands.
> >> CUDA is currently supported by the Makefile Generators and the Ninja
> >> generator on Linux, macOS, and Windows. *Support for the Visual Studio
> IDE
> >> is under development but not included in this release.*
> >> The NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit compiler (nvcc) is supported.
> >>
> >> Specifically:
> >>
> >> *Support for the Visual Studio IDE is under development but not included
> >> in this release.*
> >>
> >> Is CUDA as a first class language not supported for seemingly second
> class
> >> citizens such as Visual Studio?
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