windows 7 64bit installation ... weird problems.

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Setup and Installation
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Hello all,

I have windows 7 64bit with Visual Studio express 2010 SP1 and windows sdk 7.1
I installed CUDA tools 5.5 and now seems to be ok.
I’m able to build the examples (for example scalarProd), but if I run a clean (from Visual Studio GUI) I receive this error:

nvcc : fatal error : nvcc cannot find a supported version of Microsoft Visual Studio. Only the versions 2008, 2010, and 2012 are supported

I’m able to compile it again… but why the clean generate that error? :-)

This is important because I’m trying to use THEANO python library, and I have the same nvcc error… (cannot find the compiler).

Any idea ?

thanks,
Fausto

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It might be because Visual Studio Express does not have support for 64-bit code by default. See: [url]64 bit - How to compile a 64-bit application using Visual C++ 2010 Express? - Stack Overflow for a workaround.

Here is an earlier thread with a similar workaround for an older version of CUDA for reference: [url]CUDA 4 and VS C++ Express 2010 - CUDA Programming and Performance - NVIDIA Developer Forums

Alternatively, install the professional version – if you’re a student, you can get a copy for free directly from microsoft from http://www.dreamspark.com