Creating a CUDA Project in Visual Studio 2005

Hello all! I have an interest in graphics (experience with OpenGL, DirectX, Cg), and as such am interested in playing around with nVidia's newest toy CUDA.

The machine on which I've installed CUDA's SDK, Toolkit, and video card drivers is a Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit) machine running an 8800GT.

Opening up the Solutions for the including demos in VS2005 works -- after a little finagling, they will all compile and run nicely.

However, when I try to create my own project, I receive an error stating that "cutil.h" cannot be found. I am using:
like the examples, so presumably the correct nVidia paths are set in PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

This is getting wordy.

"Can anyone provide a brief description of how I'd create my own CUDA project in Visual Studio?"

The easiest way is to use the supplied sample project from the SDK.

It's called template.sln under the "NVIDIA CUDA SDK\projects\template" folder. Delete the short sample code and it's ready for your code. There's not really a brief description since it would take many steps, but you can examine the project to see how it was made.

From the sound of it, you're probably missing $(CUDA_INC_PATH);./;../../common/inc from the include path (the last one is relative to the SDK projects\template folder). If you're missing anything else, just strip down template.sln and save yourself some time.

Thank you very much -- my include path was messed up. Suggestion worked well !

Someone on the CUDA forum has created a VS2005 project wizard. Might be worth a look:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=65111