Hi Jürgen, You can also use CUDA 5.0 with windows 7.1 SDK to build cubins and build rest of blender with MSVC 2013. The buildbot for MSVC 2013 already does this. I should add cmake support for it and it is a work around but one that works very well and reliably for me.
Best Regards, Martijn On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Jürgen Herrmann <shadow...@me.com> wrote: > Hey there, > > > > I had some time to look into blender code recently and found some > disturbing > problems with both VS2012 and VS 2013. > > With Visual Studio 2013 released I would like to drop support for 2012 and > take the transition to VS 2013 directly because of the much better > C99/C++11 > support. > > I think we should bundle resources on one migration project instead of > porting to two different versions of VC. > > > > But (there is always a "But" ;): > > > > Unfortunately Nvidia seems to be unable to release a Cuda toolkit with > Compiler support for VC12. That's driving me crazy. Cuda 6 RC does not > support VS2013 and I am not sure when they get this done. > > IMHO there are multiple possibilities how to handle this: > > > > 1.) Port to MSVC 2013 and port Cycles' kernel to C++/AMP (I bet this can > be done) > > a. Pro: Makes us independent from NVidia Cuda and OpenCL fuzz > > b. Pro: Updates to VS are easier because we won't have to wait for > NVidia > > c. Contra: Generates a lot of work (one time work load) > > d. Contra: Another Cycles kernel that has to be maintained > > 2.) Port to VS2012/Cuda 5.5 and postpone our effords on VS2013 until we > get a working compiler from NVidia > > a. Pro: Majority of work is done, we'll just have to tie everything > together and fix some problems > > b. Contra: We'll end up waiting for NVidia until we can make a > transition to a newer VS version > > c. We may have to stick to this version of VS literally "forever" > like > we did with VS2008 > > 3.) We stick to VS2008 / Cuda 5.0 > > a. Pro: Nothing to do, just go on as is. > > b. Contra: No possibility to use newer technology > > c. Contra: Binaries might have compatibility issues with future > versions of Windows (9+) > > 4.) Any other ideas? > > > > I'd like to hear an official decision before I get started just to avoid a > waste of resources and time. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Jürgen > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
