Compiling CUDA examples gives build error

Question

I am running Windows 7 64bit, with Visual Studio 2008. I installed the CUDA drivers and SDK. The SDK comes with quite a few examples including compiled executables and sour

Answer 1

You're focusing on the wrong error message.

The .obj file doesn't exist because the nvcc compile step failed.

nvcc fatal   : Visual Studio configuration file '(null)' could not be found for installation at 'c:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/VC/bin/../..'