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El Marcel
El Marcel

Reputation: 1795

Can I use cuda without using nvcc on my host code?

I'm writing a single header library that executes a cuda kernel. I was wondering if there is a way to get around the <<<>>> syntax, or get C source output from nvcc?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1048

Answers (1)

talonmies
talonmies

Reputation: 72372

You can avoid the host language extensions by using the CUDA driver API instead. It is a little more verbose and you will require a little more boilerplate code to manage the context, but it is not too difficult.

Conventionally, you would compile to PTX or a binary payload to load at runtime, however NVIDIA now also ship an experimental JIT CUDA C compiler library, libNVVM, which you could try if you want JIT from source.

Upvotes: 5

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