Trouble with nvcc and c++ strings.

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1

Hello, I’ve got trouble compiling anything using C++ strings and CUDA at the same time.

The problem occurs even in programs as simple as:

#include <string>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {

	return 0;

}

I’m compiling with:

nv test.cu

(either with -cuda or without it)

I get following errors:

/usr/include/c++/4.3/bits/basic_string.h(2462): error: incomplete type is not allowed

		  detected during instantiation of "std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &std::getline(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &, std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc> &) [with _CharT=char, _Traits=std::char_traits<char>, _Alloc=std::allocator<char>]"

/usr/include/c++/4.3/bits/basic_string.h(2462): error: no instance of overloaded function "std::getline" matches the argument list

			argument types are: (std::basic_istream<char, std::char_traits<char>>, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>>, <error-type>)

		  detected during instantiation of "std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &std::getline(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &, std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc> &) [with _CharT=char, _Traits=std::char_traits<char>, _Alloc=std::allocator<char>]"

/usr/include/c++/4.3/bits/basic_string.h(2462): error: incomplete type is not allowed

		  detected during instantiation of "std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &std::getline(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &, std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc> &) [with _CharT=wchar_t, _Traits=std::char_traits<wchar_t>, _Alloc=std::allocator<wchar_t>]"

/usr/include/c++/4.3/bits/basic_string.h(2462): error: no instance of overloaded function "std::getline" matches the argument list

			argument types are: (std::basic_istream<wchar_t, std::char_traits<wchar_t>>, std::basic_string<wchar_t, std::char_traits<wchar_t>, std::allocator<wchar_t>>, <error-type>)

		  detected during instantiation of "std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &std::getline(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &, std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc> &) [with _CharT=wchar_t, _Traits=std::char_traits<wchar_t>, _Alloc=std::allocator<wchar_t>]"

4 errors detected in the compilation of "/tmp/tmpxft_00002ba4_00000000-4_test.cpp1.ii".

g++ and nvcc version information:

g++ (Debian 4.3.1-9) 4.3.1

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.

nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver

Copyright (c) 2005-2007 NVIDIA Corporation

Built on Fri_Nov__7_06:20:13_PST_2008

Cuda compilation tools, release 2.1, V0.2.1221
2

gcc 4.3 isn’t officially supported–try going back to 4.2 or 4.1.

3

Worked, thanks a lot!

4

I’m still having issues with this using the above empty program that just includes .

I’m using Ubuntu 8.04 and CUDA 2.1.

> gcc -v

Using built-in specs.

Target: i486-linux-gnu

Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2 --program-suffix=-4.2 --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-mpfr --enable-targets=all --enable-checking=release --build=i486-linux-gnu --host=i486-linux-gnu --target=i486-linux-gnu

Thread model: posix

gcc version 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)

> nvcc --version

nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver

Copyright (c) 2005-2007 NVIDIA Corporation

Built on Wed_Dec__3_18:29:25_PST_2008

Cuda compilation tools, release 2.1, V0.2.1221

> nvcc test.cu

/usr/include/c++/4.2/bits/basic_string.h(2441): error: incomplete type is not allowed

		  detected during instantiation of "std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &std::getline(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &, std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc> &) [with _CharT=char, _Traits=std::char_traits<char>, _Alloc=std::allocator<char>]" 

/usr/include/c++/4.2/bits/basic_string.h(2441): error: no instance of overloaded function "std::getline" matches the argument list

			argument types are: (std::basic_istream<char, std::char_traits<char>>, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>>, <error-type>)

		  detected during instantiation of "std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &std::getline(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &, std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc> &) [with _CharT=char, _Traits=std::char_traits<char>, _Alloc=std::allocator<char>]" 

/usr/include/c++/4.2/bits/basic_string.h(2441): error: incomplete type is not allowed

		  detected during instantiation of "std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &std::getline(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &, std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc> &) [with _CharT=wchar_t, _Traits=std::char_traits<wchar_t>, _Alloc=std::allocator<wchar_t>]" 

/usr/include/c++/4.2/bits/basic_string.h(2441): error: no instance of overloaded function "std::getline" matches the argument list

			argument types are: (std::basic_istream<wchar_t, std::char_traits<wchar_t>>, std::basic_string<wchar_t, std::char_traits<wchar_t>, std::allocator<wchar_t>>, <error-type>)

		  detected during instantiation of "std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &std::getline(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &, std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc> &) [with _CharT=wchar_t, _Traits=std::char_traits<wchar_t>, _Alloc=std::allocator<wchar_t>]" 

4 errors detected in the compilation of "/tmp/tmpxft_00003cf1_00000000-4_test.cpp1.ii".

It works OK using gcc version 4.1.3 20080308 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-21ubuntu1). However, if I replace with with gcc 4.1, then I get these errors:

/usr/include/c++/4.1.3/bits/ios_base.h:408: error: declaration of ‘typedef class std::streampos std::ios_base::streampos’

/usr/include/c++/4.1.3/bits/postypes.h:210: error: changes meaning of ‘streampos’ from ‘typedef class std::fpos<__mbstate_t> std::streampos’

/usr/include/c++/4.1.3/bits/ios_base.h:409: error: declaration of ‘typedef std::streamoff std::ios_base::streamoff’

/usr/include/c++/4.1.3/bits/postypes.h:72: error: changes meaning of ‘streamoff’ from ‘typedef int64_t std::streamoff’

Both and worked with nvcc release 2.0, V0.2.1221 and the same gcc 4.1.

5

FYI, here’s how I got gcc 4.1 to work on Debian Lenny (which uses 4.3 by default).

  1. sudo apt-get install gcc-4.1

  2. add “–compiler-bindir=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1” to the nvcc command line, then it works (even though /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 is the binary itself, not a directory).

Using the same tricks for gcc-4.2, the build fails.

6

this will be fixed in the 2.2 release

7

I was able to fix the problem by editing the following files:

/usr/include/c++/4.3.2/bits/basic_string.h (line 2462)

/usr/include/c++/4.3.2/bits/basic_string.tcc (lines 1120, 1135)

and removing the template for the getline function. Now I can compile my CUDA application with gcc 4.3 on Fedora 10.

8

Did you manage to fix that? Having the same set of problems…

9

I’ve faced the same problem, anybody know how to solve?

/usr/include/c++/4.2/bits/basic_string.h(2441): error: incomplete type is not allowed

		  detected during instantiation of "std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &std::getline(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &, std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc> &) [with _CharT=char, _Traits=std::char_traits<char>, _Alloc=std::allocator<char>]"

/usr/include/c++/4.2/bits/basic_string.h(2441): error: no instance of overloaded function "std::getline" matches the argument list

			argument types are: (std::basic_istream<char, std::char_traits<char>>, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>>, <error-type>)

		  detected during instantiation of "std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &std::getline(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &, std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc> &) [with _CharT=char, _Traits=std::char_traits<char>, _Alloc=std::allocator<char>]"

/usr/include/c++/4.2/bits/basic_string.h(2441): error: incomplete type is not allowed

		  detected during instantiation of "std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &std::getline(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &, std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc> &) [with _CharT=wchar_t, _Traits=std::char_traits<wchar_t>, _Alloc=std::allocator<wchar_t>]"

/usr/include/c++/4.2/bits/basic_string.h(2441): error: no instance of overloaded function "std::getline" matches the argument list

			argument types are: (std::basic_istream<wchar_t, std::char_traits<wchar_t>>, std::basic_string<wchar_t, std::char_traits<wchar_t>, std::allocator<wchar_t>>, <error-type>)

		  detected during instantiation of "std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &std::getline(std::basic_istream<_CharT, _Traits> &, std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc> &) [with _CharT=wchar_t, _Traits=std::char_traits<wchar_t>, _Alloc=std::allocator<wchar_t>]"