How should a very simple Makefile look like for Cuda compiling under linux - compilation

Question

I want to compile a very basic hello world level Cuda program under Linux. I have three files:
the kernel: helloWorld.cu
main method: helloWorld.cpp
common header: helloWorld.h
Could you write me a simple Makefile to compile this with nvcc and g++?
Thanks,
Gabor

Answer 1

I've never heard of Cuda before, but from the online documentation it looks as if X.cu is supposed to be compiled into X.o, so having helloWorld.cu and helloWorld.cpp is not a good idea. With your permission I'll rename the "kernel" helloKernel.cu, then this should work:
NVCC = nvcc
helloWorld.o: helloWorld.cpp helloWorld.h
$(NVCC) -c %&lt -o $#
helloKernel.o: helloKernel.cu
$(NVCC) -c %&lt -o $#
helloWorld: helloWorld.o helloKernel.o
$(NVCC) %^ -o $#
(Note that those leading spaces are tabs.)
If that works, try a slicker version:
NVCC = nvcc
helloWorld.o: %.o : %.cpp %.h
helloKernel.o: %.o : %.cu
%.o:
$(NVCC) -c %&lt -o $#
helloWorld: helloWorld.o helloKernel.o
$(NVCC) %^ -o $#

Answer 2

Just in case, here's my variant. I use it to compile CUDA projects on Mac, but I think it will suit Linux too. It requires CUDA SDK.
BINDIR = ./ # places compiled binary in current directory
EXECUTABLE := helloWorld
CCFILES := helloWorld.cpp
CUFILES := helloWorld.cu
# an ugly part - setting rootdir for CUDA SDK makefile
# look for common.mk - I don't know where SDK installs it on Linux -
# and change ROOTDIR accordingly
ROOTDIR := /Developer/GPU\ Computing/C/common
include $(ROOTDIR)/../common/common.mk

Answer 3

My version, verbose but transparent:
myapp: myapp.o
g++ -fPIC -o $# $< -L /usr/local/cuda/lib -lcudart
myapp.o: myapp.cu
/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc --compiler-options -fno-strict-aliasing \
-I/usr/local/cuda/include \
-DUNIX -O2 -o $# -c $<
matrixMul: matrixMul.o
g++ -fPIC -o $# $< -L /usr/local/cuda/lib -lcudart
# It MUST be named .cu or nvcc compiles as regular C !!! (no __global__)
matrixMul.o: matrixMul.cu
/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc --compiler-options -fno-strict-aliasing \
-I/usr/local/cuda/include \
-DUNIX -O2 -o $# -c $<

Answer 4

Here is an example what my current project looks like. As you can see there is a few OpenGL libraries
ce : cudaExample.c cudaExample.h
cp cudaExample.c cudaExample.cu
/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc -arch=sm_20 -o ce -lglut -lGL -lGLU -lXext -lXmu -lX11 -lm cudaExample.cu
then run make ce
and ./ce