Fatal: A single input file is required for a non-link phase when an outputfile is specified

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I am using Visual Studio 2010 on windows 7. When compiling my project, I got this error message:

nvcc fatal : A single input file is required for a non-link phase when an outputfile is specified.

Here is the actual compiling command line generated by visual studio:

“C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v4.2\bin\nvcc.exe” -ccbin “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin” -c -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -D_MBCS -DCUDA_SIFTGPU_ENABLED -Xcompiler /EHsc,/W3,/nologo,/O2,/Zi,/MTd -m 64 -I “C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v4.2\include” -I./ -I…/…/Include -o Debug_CUDA_x64\.obj C:\Users\helloworld\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\SiftGPU-V400\src\SiftGPU\ProgramCU.cu

Could anyone help figure out why I got the fatal message? I did not see anything wrong from the command.

Thanks.

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The full path for the source file contains spaces. This makes it look as if there are multiple source files specified, since white space acts as a separator. Try enclosing all path names that contain spaces in double quotes (just like you did for the executable). This applies to spource as well as object files.

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