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Example Project Using CCCL From GitHub

Many CUDA C++ users are accustomed to using CCCL headers (Thrust, CUB, libcu++) provided with the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit or NVIDIA HPC SDK.

In addition, we also support using CCCL directly from GitHub. The primary benefit is that this allows users to use the latest version of CCCL without having to wait for a new release of the CUDA Toolkit or HPC SDK.

This example demonstrates how to use CCCL from GitHub in a CMake project.

Overview

This is a standalone example of how to use CCCL in a CMake project.

This example demonstrates fetching CCCL from GitHub and linking it with a simple example CUDA program (example.cu) that utilizes the headers from CCCL.

This is intended to be a starting point for users who want to use CCCL in their own projects.

How to Adapt This Example to Your Project

This example is intended to be a starting point for users who want to use CCCL in their own projects. In order to adapt this example to your project, you will need to do the following:

1. Download CPM.cmake into your project's cmake/ directory (see below for instructions).
2. Add the following lines to your project's CMakeLists.txt file:

   include(cmake/CPM.cmake)
   
   # This will automatically clone CCCL from GitHub and make the exported cmake targets available
   CPMAddPackage(
       NAME CCCL
       GITHUB_REPOSITORY nvidia/cccl
       GIT_TAG main # Fetches the latest commit on the main branch
   )
   
   # If you're building an executable
   add_executable(your_executable your_file.cu)
   target_link_libraries(your_executable PRIVATE CCCL::CCCL)
   
   # Alternatively, if you're building a library
   add_library(your_library your_file.cu)
   target_link_libraries(your_library PRIVATE CCCL::CCCL)

   See the CMakeLists.txt file in this directory for a complete example.
3. Configure and build your project as normal and verify that it builds successfully.

For more information on using CPM, see below.

Using CMake Package Manager

This example uses the CMake Package Manager (CPM) to fetch CCCL from GitHub.

See the CMakeLists.txt file in this directory for the complete example.

If you are not familiar with CPM, you can find more information here. In short, CPM is a CMake module that simplifies dependency management for CMake projects. It automatically downloads and integrates dependencies into your CMake project.

Downloading CPM

In order to get the latest version of CPM.cmake, you can run the following command in the root directory of your project:

mkdir -p cmake
wget -O cmake/CPM.cmake https://github.com/cpm-cmake/CPM.cmake/releases/latest/download/get_cpm.cmake

This will download and create the file cmake/CPM.cmake in your project directory. Most projects will want to commit this file to their source control system. You can then use include(cmake/CPM.cmake) in your project's CMakeLists.txt file to include CPM in your project.

Alternatively, you can add the following logic to your CMakeLists.txt to download CPM if it is not already present in your project directory.

set(CPM_DOWNLOAD_VERSION 0.34.0)

if(CPM_SOURCE_CACHE)
  set(CPM_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION "${CPM_SOURCE_CACHE}/cpm/CPM_${CPM_DOWNLOAD_VERSION}.cmake")
elseif(DEFINED ENV{CPM_SOURCE_CACHE})
  set(CPM_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION "$ENV{CPM_SOURCE_CACHE}/cpm/CPM_${CPM_DOWNLOAD_VERSION}.cmake")
else()
  set(CPM_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/cmake/CPM_${CPM_DOWNLOAD_VERSION}.cmake")
endif()

if(NOT (EXISTS ${CPM_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION}))
  message(STATUS "Downloading CPM.cmake to ${CPM_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION}")
  file(DOWNLOAD
       https://github.com/TheLartians/CPM.cmake/releases/download/v${CPM_DOWNLOAD_VERSION}/CPM.cmake
       ${CPM_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION}
  )
endif()

include(${CPM_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION})

Building and Running the Example

Most people will want to adapt this example to their own project as described above. If you would like to build and run this example as-is, you will need to follow the instructions below.

Prerequisites

If you would like to build and run this example as-is, you will need:

• A CUDA-capable GPU
• NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit (11.1 or later)
• CMake (3.14 or later)
• A C++14 standard-compliant compiler
• git

Instructions

1. Clone this repository to your local machine.

   git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl.git

2. Enter the directory of the cloned repository.

   cd cccl/examples/example_project

3. Run the CMake configure step

   cmake -S . -B build

   Alternatively,

   mkdir -p build
   cd build
   cmake ..

4. Run the CMake build step.

   cmake --build .

5. Run the executable.

   ./build/example_project

If everything is configured correctly, the program will execute and print the sum of an array of integers, demonstrating the use of cccl.