I've followed the steps of the NVIDIA CUDA Installation Guide and I've installed CUDA without warning or errors. Problems arrive when I try to compile the samples provided in the CUDA toolkit. Citing the dedicated section in the previous guide: "You should compile them by changing to ~/NVIDIA_CUDA-8.0_Samples
and typing make
". The output, among other things, is:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnvcuvid
Related questions here and here I checked whether lnvcuvid exists and apparently the file is missing.
$ ls /usr/local/cuda/lib64
libcublas_device.a libcusparse_static.a libnppisu.so
libcublas.so libnppc.so libnppisu.so.8.0
libcublas.so.8.0 libnppc.so.8.0 libnppisu.so.8.0.61
libcublas.so.8.0.61 libnppc.so.8.0.61 libnppitc.so
libcublas_static.a libnppc_static.a libnppitc.so.8.0
libcudadevrt.a libnppial.so libnppitc.so.8.0.61
libcudart.so libnppial.so.8.0 libnpps.so
libcudart.so.8.0 libnppial.so.8.0.61 libnpps.so.8.0
libcudart.so.8.0.61 libnppicc.so libnpps.so.8.0.61
libcudart_static.a libnppicc.so.8.0 libnpps_static.a
libcufft.so libnppicc.so.8.0.61 libnvblas.so
libcufft.so.8.0 libnppicom.so libnvblas.so.8.0
libcufft.so.8.0.61 libnppicom.so.8.0 libnvblas.so.8.0.61
libcufft_static.a libnppicom.so.8.0.61 libnvgraph.so
libcufftw.so libnppidei.so libnvgraph.so.8.0
libcufftw.so.8.0 libnppidei.so.8.0 libnvgraph.so.8.0.61
libcufftw.so.8.0.61 libnppidei.so.8.0.61 libnvgraph_static.a
libcufftw_static.a libnppif.so libnvrtc-builtins.so
libcuinj64.so libnppif.so.8.0 libnvrtc-builtins.so.8.0
libcuinj64.so.8.0 libnppif.so.8.0.61 libnvrtc-builtins.so.8.0.61
libcuinj64.so.8.0.61 libnppig.so libnvrtc.so
libculibos.a libnppig.so.8.0 libnvrtc.so.8.0
libcurand.so libnppig.so.8.0.61 libnvrtc.so.8.0.61
libcurand.so.8.0 libnppim.so libnvToolsExt.so
libcurand.so.8.0.61 libnppim.so.8.0 libnvToolsExt.so.1
libcurand_static.a libnppim.so.8.0.61 libnvToolsExt.so.1.0.0
libcusolver.so libnppi.so libOpenCL.so
libcusolver.so.8.0 libnppi.so.8.0 libOpenCL.so.1
libcusolver.so.8.0.61 libnppi.so.8.0.61 libOpenCL.so.1.0
libcusolver_static.a libnppi_static.a libOpenCL.so.1.0.0
libcusparse.so libnppist.so stubs
libcusparse.so.8.0 libnppist.so.8.0
libcusparse.so.8.0.61 libnppist.so.8.0.61
However, I don't know where to safely get the file from so I'm stuck. For what it worths:
- nvcc is already added in PATH.
- In usr/local I have either cuda and cuda-8.0 folders, I not sure if this is normal.
Best Answer
The answer is provided in the post #17 here. I'm copy pasting for your convenience:
A lazy fix would be to run (for cuda 8.0):
in ~/NVIDIA_CUDA-8.0_Samples/.