Installing NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu 8.10
After realising that my shiny new Dell XPS M1330 could make use of CUDA I had a bash at installing it on Intrepid. The notes at the following link were very useful but I did not follow them to the letter. I can’t remember what changes I made but it was all minor stuff.
lifeofaprogrammergeek.blogspot.com/2008/05/cuda-development-in-ubuntu.html
When I tried to compile the examples that are included in the SDK I got many many errors – some of which included
In file included from src/cmd_arg_reader.cpp:33:
./../common/inc/cmd_arg_reader.h: In member function ‘const T* CmdArgReader::getArgHelper(const std::string&)’:
./../common/inc/cmd_arg_reader.h:416: error: must #include before using typeid
./../common/inc/cmd_arg_reader.h:432: error: must #include before using typeid
src/cmd_arg_reader.cpp: In destructor ‘CmdArgReader::~CmdArgReader()’:
src/cmd_arg_reader.cpp:101: error: must #include before using typeid
A bit of googling helped me determine that these errors were caused by the fact that 8.10 of Ubuntu uses a version of gcc that is currently unsupported by CUDA. The following commands fixed that by changing the default compiler to gcc-4.1
sudo apt-get install build-essential libglut3-dev gcc-4.1 g++-4.1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.1
Some other things I did may have helped but it was the two lines above that fixed the problem for me
Hey,
Thanks a lot for this.
I have a similar problem. I followed the guide you have posted.
But I was wondering whether I did something wrong because my ~/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/bin/ directory does not have anything inside. IT’s empty.
The examples seem to be in ~/NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK/projects directory.
Anyway I am having some problem running hem. Probably because I am a noob at this. Could you kindly exmplain the steps/commands you did to run, for example the fluidGl program. Which one should I ‘make’?
Thanks a lot.