CUDA 7.0 Error while compiling samples - cuda

Question

I'm trying to install CUDA 7.0 on Ubuntu 14.04. I've followed the installation instructions as outlined here. Specifically, I've followed steps in section 3.6 and Chapter 6. While compiling the examples (Section 6.2.2.2) using make, I'm getting the following error:
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/cuda-7.0/samples/3_Imaging/cudaDecodeGL'
/usr/local/cuda-7.0/bin/nvcc -ccbin g++ -m64 -gencode arch=compute_20,
code=compute_20 -o cudaDecodeGL FrameQueue.o ImageGL.o VideoDecoder.o
VideoParser.o VideoSource.o cudaModuleMgr.o cudaProcessFrame.o
videoDecodeGL.o -L../../common/lib/linux/x86_64 -L/usr/lib/"nvidia-346"
-lGL -lGLU -lX11 -lXi -lXmu -lglut -lGLEW -lcuda -lcudart -lnvcuvid
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnvcuvid
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [cudaDecodeGL] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/cuda-7.0/samples/3_Imaging/cudaDecodeGL'
make: *** [3_Imaging/cudaDecodeGL/Makefile.ph_build] Error 2

Answer 1

If you notice, there is -L/usr/lib/"nvidia-346". In my case, I have installed nvidia-349. What worked for me is to edit NVIDIA_CUDA-7.0_Samples/3_Imaging/cudaDecodeGL/findgllib.mk and change UBUNTU_PKG_NAME = "nvidia-346" to nvidia-349.

Answer 2

In order to properly install CUDA 7.0 on Ubuntu 14.04, you need a nvidia driver version 346 or higher.
If you're using the .deb installation method, the nvidia graphics driver is installed automatically.
If you used the .run file installation method and chose not to install the nvidia driver, you can manually install the driver afterwards through the package manager:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-346 nvidia-346-dev nvidia-346-uvm libcuda1-346 nvidia-libopencl1-346 nvidia-icd-346
In my case, I installed nvidia-352 afterwards due to a bug in nvidia-346 and I stumbled upon the same error.
andoum's approach of manually changing the hard-coded UBUNTU_PKG_NAME = "nvidia-346" to UBUNTU_PKG_NAME = "nvidia-352" in NVIDIA_CUDA-7.0_Samples/3_Imaging/cudaDecodeGL/findgllib.mk worked fine for me.

Answer 3

I met the same issue and solution is that put path of nvidia into system path:
sudo gedit /etc/environment
add these path into environment
LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/your_nvidia_edition:$LIBRARY_PATH

Answer 4

In fact I have encountered this problem when I made a make. I installed Cuda 8.0 under my Ubuntu 16.04. This problem had been confusing me for several weeks and I was almost tending to reinstall ubuntu for that after reviewing many suggestions via google, but finally I addressed it myself recently.
First of all, you should replace all the UBUNTU_PKG_NAME= ##nvidia-3xx## to the one of your actually installed nvidia driver version as recommended above. Then you will probably get compiling error after you do a new make. In my case, I have the link errors like
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libGLX.so.0, needed by /usr/lib/nvidia-
375/libGL.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libGLdispatch.so.0, needed by /usr/lib/nvidia-
375/libGL.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
....
or whatever contains missing link errors. Do locate the files you miss like
$ locate libGLX.so.
/usr/lib/nvidia-375/libGLX.so.0
/usr/lib32/nvidia-375/libGLX.so.0
$ locate libGLdispatch.so.0
/usr/lib/nvidia-375/libGLdispatch.so.0
/usr/lib32/nvidia-375/libGLdispatch.so.0
The error above is probably caused the compiling files cannot find in the default cuda libraries as you set, so you just need to copy the missing files to /usr/lib/nvidia-3xx/ (the actual path in your case) and this should work(it works in my case), if it doesn't maybe you could try to link the new add files to the one that need using a
$ sudo ln -s (requested file) (requesting file).
Hope this will help.