CUDA 7.0 installation not detecting Visual Studio 2013 Express

Question

I am trying to install CUDA 7.0 on my laptop. It's Windows 7 64-bit with Visual Studio for Desktop 2013 Express. I get the error message "No supported version of Visual Studio was found." In the CUDA documentation it specifies that VS 2013 is supported (however it doesn't mention the Express version). Any advice please?

Answer 1

Visual Studio 2013 Express is not a supported version for CUDA 7.0.

The supported versions are listed in the windows getting started guide.

Switch to a supported version.

If you are looking for a "free" Visual Studio version, use Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition. This has some advantages anyway, over the express versions:

1. 64-bit compiler support
2. VS Plugin support (so you can use nsight VSE, although the warning message you received is not unique to nsight VSE. The CUDA 7 installer will report that.)