[Haskell-cafe] install cuda

[Geoffrey Mainland]

Fantastic, glad you got it working! Maybe it's time for me to send
Trevor a pull request...

Geoff

On 04/01/2013 04:27 PM, Peter Caspers wrote:
> indeed, not very helpful ...
>
> When I installed Cuda the latest driver (296.0) that was running on my
> laptop (a W520 ThinkPad) was not sufficient for version 5.0. However
> as I noticed today in February Lenovo released a driver update (311.0)
> and with that 5.0 is in fact running. :-)
>
> With that the Haskell bindings work well.
>
> Thanks again very much, Geoff
> Peter
>
>
>
> Am 01.04.2013 12:25, schrieb Geoffrey Mainland:
>> That is not a very elucidating crash message, so I don't see how to
>> proceed. After ghci print "Loading package cuda-0.5.0.0 ... linking
>> ... done." it just exits? No error dialog, nothing? Did you try building
>> any of the examples in the cuda package that don't require ghci?
>>
>> Is your graphics card incompatible with CUDA 5.0, or do you just not
>> want to update your driver?
>>
>> Geoff
>>
>> On 04/01/2013 10:33 AM, Peter Caspers wrote:
>>> yes, the installation seems to work fine now. However, doing the
following test in ghci
>>>
>>> Prelude> :m +Foreign.CUDA
>>> Prelude Foreign.CUDA> props 0
>>> Loading package bytestring-0.9.2.1 ... linking ... done.
>>> Loading package cuda-0.5.0.0 ... linking ... done.
>>>
>>> results in a crash. The CUDA version I am using is 4.1.28. You think
>> there is something I could try to analyze this further ?
>>> Thanks a lot for your help
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> Am 31.03.2013 21:48, schrieb Geoffrey Mainland:
>>>> You need to generate the configure script using autoconf:
>>>>
>>>>
>>
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#autoconf-Invocation
>>>> On 03/31/2013 08:27 PM, Peter Caspers wrote:
>>>>> Hmm, I get
>>>>>
>>>>> Configuring cuda-0.5.0.0...
>>>>> setup.exe: configure script not found.
>>>>>
>>>>> can you help ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter
>>>>>
>>>>>> I was able to install the cuda package under 32-bit GHC 7.4.2
using the
>>>>>> 5.0 SDK and use it from within ghci. This required using my fork
of the
>>>>>> cuda repo and following the instructions in my WINDOWS.md. Make sure
>>>>>> nvcc is in your path (the CUDA installer should have made this
so) and
>>>>>> try 'cabal configure'.
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