I'm a beginner in GPU programming. I'm studying cuda through Visual Studio 2019.

When i build some cuda program, does Visual Studio use 'nvcc' to compile? Or Visual Studio has its own cuda compiler and use it?

It may be a little sloppy because it's my first question. Thank you.

CodePudding user response：

Yes, visual studio will use nvcc to compile files that end in .cu.

You can verify this by looking at the visual studio console output when you build a CUDA sample project like vectorAdd. If you don't see it, turn the visual studio verbosity up.