NVCC question problem with linking

I’m working a file called “smooth.c” and I want to rename it to “smooth.cu” and have my makefile work with it. Unfortunately, gcc tends to ignore the linking stage with -c and nvcc won’t. Therefore, I get a nice huge

/tmp/tmpxft_000014e5_00000000-9.o: In function `main':

tmpxft_000014e5_00000000-8.i:(.text+0x6c8c): undefined reference to `process_arguments(int, char**)'

tmpxft_000014e5_00000000-8.i:(.text+0x6ca1): undefined reference to `mcalloc(unsigned int, unsigned int)'

tmpxft_000014e5_00000000-8.i:(.text+0x6cb9): undefined reference to `mcalloc(unsigned int, unsigned int)'

tmpxft_000014e5_00000000-8.i:(.text+0x6cd1): undefined reference to `mcalloc(unsigned int, unsigned int)'

tmpxft_000014e5_00000000-8.i:(.text+0x6ce9): undefined reference to `mcalloc(unsigned int, unsigned int)'

tmpxft_000014e5_00000000-8.i:(.text+0x6d14): undefined reference to `mcalloc(unsigned int, unsigned int)'

tmpxft_000014e5_00000000-8.i:(.text+0x6ea6): undefined reference to `readNDVIpixel(double*, int, int)'

tmpxft_000014e5_00000000-8.i:(.text+0x6ed0): undefined reference to `windowed_coefs(double*, double*, int, double**, double*)'

tmpxft_000014e5_00000000-8.i:(.text+0x6efb): undefined reference to `writeNDVIpixel(double*, int, int)'

tmpxft_000014e5_00000000-8.i:(.text+0x6f08): undefined reference to `writeASCIIpixel(double*)'

tmpxft_000014e5_00000000-8.i:(.text+0x70bd): undefined reference to `writeNDVIpixelBuffer()'

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

my makefile with the .c code looks like this

COMMONOBJECTS = memmgr.o 64bitUtility.o

SMOBJECTS = smooth.o lfit.o 

NDOBJECTS = n2date.o NDVI2date.o

OBJECTS = $(SMOBJECTS) $(NDOBJECTS) $(COMMONOBJECTS)

EXE = smooth NDVI2date

LDFLAGS = -lm

CFLAGS = -O -D _LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

CC = nvcc

default:	$(EXE)

smooth:	$(SMOBJECTS) $(COMMONOBJECTS)

NDVI2date: $(NDOBJECTS) $(COMMONOBJECTS)

memmgr.o: memmgr.c memmgr.h system.h

smooth.o:	smooth.c init.h utility.h system.h memmgr.h lfit.h

64bitUtility.o:	64bitUtility.c system.h utility.h memmgr.h

lfit.o:	lfit.c lfit.h utility.h memmgr.h system.h

n2date.o:	n2date.c n2date.h memmgr.h

NDVI2date.o:	NDVI2date.c init.h utility.h system.h memmgr.h n2date.h

clean:	

	rm $(OBJECTS) >&/dev/null

	rm $(EXE) >&/dev/null

adding

nvcc -c -o smooth.o smooth.cu

and changing the smooth.c to smooth.cu doesn’t work and neither does running a simple nvcc compile command either.

The includes that the smooth.cu file needs are

#include "init.h"

#include "utility.h"

#include "system.h"

#include "memmgr.h"

#include "lfit.h"

#include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

Any suggestions?