Cannot build CUDA 4.0 SDK samples on Ubuntu 10.10

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make -C src/smokeParticles/ 

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/nils/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/smokeParticles'

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/launch_closure.inl(84): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/launch_closure.inl(118): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/fast_scan.inl(410): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/fast_scan.inl(420): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/fast_scan.inl(430): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/fast_scan.inl(480): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/fast_scan.inl(490): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/fast_scan.inl(500): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/safe_scan.inl(331): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/safe_scan.inl(346): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/safe_scan.inl(360): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/safe_scan.inl(414): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/safe_scan.inl(430): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/safe_scan.inl(448): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/copy_if.inl(241): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/copy_if.inl(251): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/stable_merge_sort.inl(928): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/stable_merge_sort.inl(943): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/stable_merge_sort.inl(1006): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/stable_merge_sort.inl(1041): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/stable_merge_sort.inl(1081): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/stable_merge_sort.inl(1193): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/b40c/radixsort_api.h(481): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/b40c/radixsort_api.h(488): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/b40c/radixsort_api.h(504): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/b40c/radixsort_api.h(517): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/b40c/radixsort_api.h(521): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

27 errors detected in the compilation of "/tmp/tmpxft_00004cb9_00000000-15_ParticleSystem.cpp4.ii".

make[2]: *** [obj/x86_64/release/ParticleSystem.cu.o] Error 2

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nils/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/smokeParticles'

make[1]: *** [src/smokeParticles/Makefile.ph_build] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nils/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C'

make: *** [all] Error 2

NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK >

No idea what the error actually means… External Image

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Are you sure you are really compiling with the correct nvcc version?

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~ > nvcc --version

nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver

Copyright (c) 2005-2011 NVIDIA Corporation

Built on Fri_Feb_18_18:07:32_PST_2011

Cuda compilation tools, release 4.0, V0.2.1221

Well I had CUDA 3.2 installed before, but I think the installer removed that before installing the new version.

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How can I invoke make so that it shows me the exact commands executed?

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for the sdk you can run make verbose=1. I had no problems building the complete 4.0rc sdk on a 64 bit Ubuntu 9.04 box.

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thx just figured that out too External Image

Here is the command which fails:

/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc  -gencode=arch=compute_10,code=\"sm_10,compute_10\"  -gencode=arch=compute_20,code=\"sm_20,compute_20\"  -m64 --compiler-options -fno-strict-aliasing  -I. -I/usr/local/cuda/include -I../../common/inc -I../../../shared//inc -DUNIX -O2   -o obj/x86_64/release/ParticleSystem.cu.o -c ParticleSystem.cu

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/launch_closure.inl(84): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files
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That’s strange… they only thing which differs is probably the gcc/g++ version. Can you post yours?

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avidday@cuda:~$ gcc --version

gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 4.3.3

Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO

warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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have the same problem on ubuntu 10.04:

/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc  -gencode=arch=compute_10,code=\"sm_10,compute_10\"  -gencode=arch=compute_20,code=\"sm_20,compute_20\"  -m64 --compiler-options -fno-strict-aliasing  -I. -I/usr/local/cuda/include -I../../common/inc -I../../../shared//inc -DUNIX -O2   -o obj/x86_64/release/particleSystem.cu.o -c particleSystem.cu

"/usr/local/cuda/include/thrust/detail/device/cuda/detail/launch_closure.inl(84): error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

:~$ nvcc --version

nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver

Copyright (c) 2005-2011 NVIDIA Corporation

Built on Fri_Feb_18_18:07:32_PST_2011

Cuda compilation tools, release 4.0, V0.2.1221

seems to be linked to the thrust lib. found this link:

http://code.google.com/p/thrust/issues/detail?id=184

maybe installing cuda on our home directory will solve this issue. i don’t like it though.

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Any update on this? This is really annoying…

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Since I replied on this thread a month ago, I updated my main development box to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, so the gcc version is now:

gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) 4.4.3

Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO

warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

and the 4.0rc1 SDK still builds without errors…

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Well it just seems to be the smoke particle example which does not work… What about the computeprof? Does it run stable?

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CUDA 4.0 RC2

i. e. how to get a nice installation of above mentioned CUDA 4.0 (RC2) to work under a fresh install of a 64 bit Ubuntu 11.04 (codename Natty Narwhal).

After installing a few tidbits I need for everyday life, I decided to give CUDA a try (after it messed up my previous installation)

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[*] I didn’t change the graphics driver after installation.

[*] Added the ppa from here here:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aaron-haviland/cuda-4.0

[*]

sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit

[*] Updated my graphics driver with Ubuntu’s nice “Additional drivers” GUI. I think it’s the same as

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

(I’m not sure about this. This is where my previous installation got screwed up. I had driver version 173.* and needed 170.*. 170 is what I have now. It compiles and runs.)

[*] Downloaded the SDK from Nvidia, and install:

sh gpucomputingsdk_4.0.13_linux.run

[*] Tried to compile with - failed.

[*] Installed some of the missing lib’s and g+±4.4

sudo apt-get install libxi-dev libxmu-dev libglut3-dev g++-4.4

[*] Modified the $SDK/C/common/common.mk. Changed

g++

to

g++-4.4

(twice); changed

gcc

to

gcc-4.4

(once); and added

--compiler-bindir=/usr/bin/g++-4.4

to the NVCCFLAGS variable so the entire line is:

NVCCFLAGS       := --compiler-bindir=/usr/bin/g++-4.4

[*] Tried to compile and got the mentioned error about system files not being allowed to launch kernels

[*]

sudo mkdir /usr/local/cuda

sudo mkdir /usr/local/cuda/include

sudo mv /usr/include/thrust /usr/local/cuda/include

[*] Modified $SDK/C/common/common.mk again. Changed the line

INCLUDES  += -I. -I$(CUDA_INSTALL_PATH)/include -I$(COMMONDIR)/inc -I$(SHAREDDIR

)/inc

to

INCLUDES  += -I. -I$(CUDA_INSTALL_PATH)/include -I$(COMMONDIR)/inc -I$(SHAREDDIR

)/inc -I/usr/local/cuda/include

(just “-I/usr/local/cuda/include” added)

[*] Compiled, and ran.

It’s late, so I hope I didn’t leave out anything.

Cheers!

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Emil Vatai, I’m grateful for your step-by-step, but it doesn’t seem to be working for me–I still get the kernel launches from system files error. The only thing I can think that could be different is the nvidia-current driver, but that shouldn’t affect it, should it?

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maybe you can try like this :

Solution:the include path for the corresponding headers must be specified by a -I

flag to the compiler

https://amcg.ese.ic.ac.uk/~fr710/wiki/dev/cuda/start

nvcc errors

kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files

occurs whenever a kernel is launched from a template class or function that is

declared in a header residing in a standard include path of the compiler

Note: this applies also to include path expansion e.g. through the

CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH environment variable

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I had to add a soft link in order to let ld find the cuda library:

ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libcuda.so.280.13 /usr/lib/libcuda.so

but now it works. Finally!

Reference: http://timelordz.com/wiki/Nvidia_CUDA

(Ubuntu 11.10, 32bit)

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Try removing the variable CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH from your environment. This may be why nvcc is confusing the contents of /usr/local/cuda/include for system files. A quick check would be to do

$ export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=

after this, the error: “error: kernel launches from templates are not allowed in system files” will no longer appear.