Documentation outdated/uttlerly useless for Eclipe IDE CUDA integration

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Setup and Installation
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The following reasons why based on the following two examples which I am trying to just setup CUDA on Windows in Visual Studio Community 2022 & Eclipse IDE.

Let’s start with Eclipse. We need the plugin to use CUDA, right?

On this page:

2.1. Installing Nsight Eclipse Edition

Nsight Eclipse Plugins archive is part of the CUDA Toolkit. Nsight Eclipse Plugins archive can be installed using the Help → Install New Software… Menu on Eclipse

Huh? What further needs to be done???

So I find this next page:

1.1. Install plugins using Eclipse IDE

  1. You can install Nsight Eclipse plugins in your own Eclipse environment or download and install [Eclipse IDE for C/C++ developers]
  2. Launch Eclipse and go to Help > Install New Software… menu.
  3. Click on the Add Button
  4. Enter name (ex: NsightEE) in the Name field. Choose the the zip file(com.nvidia.cuda.repo.zip) that contains the plugins using Archive button or Enter the full path of zip file. Nsight EE plugns zip file can be found in /usr/local/cuda-11.8/nsightee_plugins directory

Huh? But I am using Windows, not Linux, but that is okay as I can I see I have a couple of Nvidia directories

C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation & C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit

For the Toolkit directory. No Nsight repo there, or any .zip file as shown in the Docs site.

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While the word Nsight does appear in the Nvidia Corporation directory,the word “repo” nor any .zip file appears there either.

What’s going on with this?

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Looking at the start of the docs, it states:

"NVIDIA® Nsight™ Eclipse Edition is a unified CPU plus GPU integrated development environment (IDE) for developing CUDA® applications on Linux and Mac OS X for the x86, POWER and ARM platforms. "

So I don’t think it’s intended for Windows.

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Thanks for that update and taking the time to respond. That is unfortunate they have stopped supporting Eclipse on Windows.

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It was never supported on windows.

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I do believe this was on Windows.

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It was not. On that page it states:

“The latest version of NVIDIA Nsight Eclipse Edition with support for CUDA C/C++ and is supported on MAC and Linux platforms.”

Here is the nsight eclipse edition documentation from CUDA 8.0, circa 2017, which states the same thing.

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