CUDA with visual studio and cmake

Question

I am working with CUDA 8.0 and Visual Studio 2013. Until now I have been building my VS-Solutions with CMake and it is working pretty well. Normally a cuda project is build with following code snippet:

FIND_PACKAGE(CUDA REQUIRED)
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES( ${CUDA_INCLUDE_DIRS})
link_directories(${CUDA_INCLUDE_DIRS}/../lib/x64)

The CUDA-project is working, compiling and running without any problems. But I am missing the CUDA C/C++ field in the project properties. When I create a VS-Solution directly in VS, I can choose NVIDIA/ CUDA 8.0 and the properties are there (as you can see in the picture below)

Question: Is it possible to generate a project with CMake and with the CUDA properties project option?

Thanks and I hope my question is clear.

Answer 1

Some month passed since I asked myself this question... And now the new version of CMake enables CUDA as a first-class language with version 3.8.

This means, now it is possible to create CUDA targets with this simple command (doku):

enable_language(CUDA) 

This functionality of CMake offers to create CUDA-targets with using the cmake-commands add_executable or add_library without the need for using the find_package(CUDA) or cuda_add_executable() commands.

However, CMake's Version 3.8 does not include the support for Visual Studio's IDE - But Version 3.9 does (Hooray!!). The properties project options in VS are available now.

Conclusion: If you work with CUDA and Visual Studio, it will be absolutely worth it to switch to CMake 3.9 and this great new functionality.