FindCUDAToolkit — CMake 4.0.1 Documentation (original) (raw)

Added in version 3.17.

This script locates the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit and the associated libraries, but does not require the CUDA language be enabled for a given project. This module does not search for the NVIDIA CUDA Samples.

Added in version 3.19: QNX support.

Search Behavior

The CUDA Toolkit search behavior uses the following order:

  1. If the CUDA language has been enabled we will use the directory containing the compiler as the first search location for nvcc.
  2. If the variable CMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER or the environment variable CUDACXX is defined, it will be used as the path to the nvcc executable.
  3. If the CUDAToolkit_ROOT cmake configuration variable (e.g.,-DCUDAToolkit_ROOT=/some/path) or environment variable is defined, it will be searched. If both an environment variable and a configuration variable are specified, the configuration variable takes precedence.
    The directory specified here must be such that the executable nvcc or the appropriate version.txt or version.json file can be found underneath the specified directory.
  4. If the CUDA_PATH environment variable is defined, it will be searched for nvcc.
  5. The user's path is searched for nvcc using find_program(). If this is found, no subsequent search attempts are performed. Users are responsible for ensuring that the first nvcc to show up in the path is the desired path in the event that multiple CUDA Toolkits are installed.
  6. On Unix systems, if the symbolic link /usr/local/cuda exists, this is used. No subsequent search attempts are performed. No default symbolic link location exists for the Windows platform.
  7. The platform specific default install locations are searched. If exactly one candidate is found, this is used. The default CUDA Toolkit install locations searched are:
    Platform Search Pattern
    macOS /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-X.Y
    Other Unix /usr/local/cuda-X.Y
    Windows C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\vX.Y
    Where X.Y would be a specific version of the CUDA Toolkit, such as/usr/local/cuda-9.0 orC:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v9.0
    Note
    When multiple CUDA Toolkits are installed in the default location of a system (e.g., both /usr/local/cuda-9.0 and /usr/local/cuda-10.0exist but the /usr/local/cuda symbolic link does not exist), this package is marked as not found.
    There are too many factors involved in making an automatic decision in the presence of multiple CUDA Toolkits being installed. In this situation, users are encouraged to either (1) set CUDAToolkit_ROOT or (2) ensure that the correct nvcc executable shows up in $PATH forfind_program() to find.

Arguments

[<version>]

The [<version>] argument requests a version with which the package found should be compatible. See find_package version formatfor more details.

Options

REQUIRED

If specified, configuration will error if a suitable CUDA Toolkit is not found.

QUIET

If specified, the search for a suitable CUDA Toolkit will not produce any messages.

EXACT

If specified, the CUDA Toolkit is considered found only if the exactVERSION specified is recovered.

Imported Targets

An imported target named CUDA::toolkit is provided.

This module defines IMPORTED targets for each of the following libraries that are part of the CUDAToolkit:

CUDA Runtime Library

The CUDA Runtime library (cudart) are what most applications will typically need to link against to make any calls such as cudaMalloc, and cudaFree.

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CUDA Driver Library

The CUDA Driver library (cuda) are used by applications that use calls such as cuMemAlloc, and cuMemFree.

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cuBLAS

The cuBLAS library.

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cuDLA

Added in version 3.27.

The NVIDIA Tegra Deep Learning Accelerator cuDLA library.

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cuFile

Added in version 3.25.

The NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage cuFile library.

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cuFFT

The cuFFT library.

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cuRAND

The cuRAND library.

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cuSOLVER

The cuSOLVER library.

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cuSPARSE

The cuSPARSE library.

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cupti

The NVIDIA CUDA Profiling Tools Interface.

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Added in version 3.27:

NPP

The NPP libraries.

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nvBLAS

The nvBLAS libraries. This is a shared library only.

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nvGRAPH

The nvGRAPH library. Removed starting in CUDA 11.0

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nvJPEG

The nvJPEG library. Introduced in CUDA 10.

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nvPTX Compiler

Added in version 3.25.

The nvPTX (PTX Compilation) library. The PTX Compiler APIs are a set of APIs which can be used to compile a PTX program into GPU assembly code. Introduced in CUDA 11.1 This is a static library only.

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nvRTC

The nvRTC (Runtime Compilation) library.

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Added in version 3.26:

nvJitLink

The nvJItLink (Runtime LTO Linking) library.

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nvFatBin

Added in version 3.30.

The nvFatBin (Runtime fatbin creation) library.

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nvidia-ML

The NVIDIA Management Library.

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Added in version 3.31: Added CUDA::nvml_static.

nvToolsExt

Deprecated since version 3.25: With CUDA 10.0+, use nvtx3.

The NVIDIA Tools Extension. This is a shared library only.

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nvtx3

Added in version 3.25.

The header-only NVIDIA Tools Extension Library. Introduced in CUDA 10.0.

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OpenCL

The NVIDIA OpenCL Library. This is a shared library only.

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cuLIBOS

The cuLIBOS library is a backend thread abstraction layer library which is static only. The CUDA::cublas_static, CUDA::cusparse_static,CUDA::cufft_static, CUDA::curand_static, and (when implemented) NPP libraries all automatically have this dependency linked.

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Note: direct usage of this target by consumers should not be necessary.

Result variables

CUDAToolkit_FOUND

A boolean specifying whether or not the CUDA Toolkit was found.

CUDAToolkit_VERSION

The exact version of the CUDA Toolkit found (as reported bynvcc --version, version.txt, or version.json).

CUDAToolkit_VERSION_MAJOR

The major version of the CUDA Toolkit.

CUDAToolkit_VERSION_MINOR

The minor version of the CUDA Toolkit.

CUDAToolkit_VERSION_PATCH

The patch version of the CUDA Toolkit.

CUDAToolkit_BIN_DIR

The path to the CUDA Toolkit library directory that contains the CUDA executable nvcc.

CUDAToolkit_INCLUDE_DIRS

List of paths to all the CUDA Toolkit folders containing header files required to compile a project linking against CUDA.

CUDAToolkit_LIBRARY_DIR

The path to the CUDA Toolkit library directory that contains the CUDA Runtime library cudart.

CUDAToolkit_LIBRARY_ROOT

Added in version 3.18.

The path to the CUDA Toolkit directory containing the nvvm directory and either version.txt or version.json.

CUDAToolkit_TARGET_DIR

The path to the CUDA Toolkit directory including the target architecture when cross-compiling. When not cross-compiling this will be equivalent to the parent directory of CUDAToolkit_BIN_DIR.

CUDAToolkit_NVCC_EXECUTABLE

The path to the NVIDIA CUDA compiler nvcc. Note that this path maynot be the same asCMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER. nvcc must be found to determine the CUDA Toolkit version as well as determining other features of the Toolkit. This variable is set for the convenience of modules that depend on this one.