Re: [Boost-build] Boost build support for nvcc

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Boost build support for nvcc
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-07-21 02:36:37

On 7/20/2018 8:14 PM, Tom Brown via Boost-build wrote:
> On 7/17/18 9:23 PM, Edward Diener via Boost-build wrote:
>> Does Boost Build have support for the nvcc compiler ? If so what is 
>> the toolset name and toolset parameters ?
> 
> I don't know about official support, but I created one a while ago and 
> did some cleanup on it and put it up on GitHub at 
> https://github.com/tee3/boost-build-nvcc.%c2  It's working for me in 
> admittedly simple use cases.  I've only used it with CUDA 9, so it might 
> be lacking with older versions of nvcc.
> 
> I would love to help get this into Boost.Build, but I doubt it is 
> production quality at this point.  I am not a CUDA expert and I don't 
> know if this toolset supports everything required.  It certainly needs 
> to support some of the newer (and awesome) features in the latest 
> Boost.Build like cxxstd.

Thanks ! It is much appreciated.

> 
> Tom
>