NVCC - host compiler targets unsupported OS

build cuda nvcc cl
Sina Madani picture Sina Madani · Feb 2, 2017 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

I've been trying to get CUDA working on my PC. I tried clean (re-)installing the latest drivers and CUDA as well as latest Visual Studio 2017 RC Build Tools. My operating system is Windows 10 (64-bit) build 14393.693, GPU is GTX 1060 6GB (Driver version 378.49), CUDA version 8.0.44.

I took a simple demo from one of the NVIDIA blogs and when I try to compile with "nvcc", I get "nvcc fatal: Host compiler targets unsupported OS". I setup my envrionment by opening a command prompt in the folder with the .cu file, then running "vcvars64" to add the 64-bit cl.exe to my environment variables. I also tried this with "vcvars32" and I get same result.

I can confirm that cl.exe will compile a "HelloWorld" C file.

Answer

tera picture tera · Feb 2, 2017

Try using a supported host compiler.

Edit: The question has since come up again and gotten a better answer here: Using CUDA with Visual Studio 2017

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