Aim: Install Gromacs with GPU support in windows 7
Problem: Build step failed in Visual Studio 14 2015, using CMake 3.11 GUI in
Windows
Identified "issues":
1. First off, NVIDIA named their default CUDA installation directory in a
space separated directory. This caused much grief when CMake complains that
"Check for working NVCC/C compiler combination - broken" and "CUDA compiler
does not seem to be functional".
* The solution was to surround the path with quotes in
CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR
2. Visual Studio fails to compile libgromacs (VS complains that it could not
find ../../lib/gromacs.lib
With regards to (2.), CMake completed the generation of VS build files without
errors and I tried building it using VS 14 2015 (as specified in my CMake
generation tool). The steps I took:
1. set the build type to Release
2. click build all
I also tried compiling Gromacs with the exact same steps, but without GPU
support, and it went without a hitch.
I therefore suspect that it might be that "path issue" I faced earlier (1.), so
I tried identifying the first error in VS build and it lead me to
src/gromacs/mdlib/nbnxn_cuda/nbnxn_cuda.cu.
I copied the commands as-is within the makefile and tried to compile it in VS
developer command prompt myself.
The error I got was:
C:/tools/GROMACS/gromacs-2018.1/src/gromacs/mdlib/nbnxn_cuda/nvnxn_cuda.cu(646):
error: expression must be a modifiable lvalue.
My suspicion is that:
1. The error "might" be because of a path problem ? (like before)
2. nvnxn_cuda.cu at line 646 has a syntax error. (maybe)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Harry.
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