CUDA 8.0 Visual Studio 2012 linker options when using Relocatable Device Code

Question

I have a class-based C++ code similar to this and have followed the structure for declaring a __device__ method of the class. I have also gone to Project Properties-> CUDA C/C++ -> Common -> Generate Relocatable Device Code and changed it to YES but here it says the linking options need modifying and I do not understand how to do this in the VS options from this information . How do I do this to get it to link?

**Removed VC studio settings in original post as not relevant**

Test code is:

kernel.cu

#include "Test.cuh"

// CUDA kernel
__global__ void myKernel(Test* t) {

// Call device function
t->device_function();
}


// Entry point
int main()
{

// Create object (host and device copies)
Test* t = new Test();
Test* t_dev = NULL;
cudaMalloc(&t_dev, sizeof(Test));

// Copy object
cudaMemcpy(t_dev,t,sizeof(Test),cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);

// Call kernel passing pointer to device copy of the object
myKernel<<<1,1>>>(t_dev);

}

Test.cuh

class Test
{
public:
Test(void);
~Test(void);

__device__ void device_function();
};

Test.cu

#include "Test.cuh"
Test::Test(void){}
Test::~Test(void){}

__device__ void Test::device_function() {

// Do something

}

EDIT

Adding compilation log as I think it might not be compiling the device implementation properly.

1> C:\C++ Projects\CudaTest\CudaTest>"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v8.0\bin\nvcc.exe" -ccbin "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\bin"  -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v8.0\include" -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v8.0\include"     --keep-dir Release -maxrregcount=0  --machine 32 --compile      -DWIN32 -DNDEBUG -D_CONSOLE -D_MBCS -Xcompiler "/EHsc /W3 /nologo /O2 /Zi  /MD " -o Release\kernel.cu.obj "C:\C++ Projects\CudaTest\CudaTest\kernel.cu" -clean
1>  kernel.cu
1>  Compiling CUDA source file kernel.cu...
1>  
1>  C:\C++ Projects\CudaTest\CudaTest>"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v8.0\bin\nvcc.exe" -gencode=arch=compute_20,code=\"sm_20,compute_20\" --use-local-env --cl-version 2012 -ccbin "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\bin" -rdc=true -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v8.0\include" -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v8.0\include"     --keep-dir Release -maxrregcount=0  --machine 32 --compile -cudart static     -DWIN32 -DNDEBUG -D_CONSOLE -D_MBCS -Xcompiler "/EHsc /W3 /nologo /O2 /Zi  /MD " -o Release\kernel.cu.obj "C:\C++ Projects\CudaTest\CudaTest\kernel.cu" 
1>  kernel.cu
1>  Test.cu
1>  
1>  C:\C++ Projects\CudaTest\CudaTest>"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v8.0\bin\nvcc.exe" -dlink -o Release\CudaTest.device-link.obj -Xcompiler "/EHsc /W3 /nologo /O2 /Zi  /MD " -L"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v8.0\lib\Win32" cudart.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib  -gencode=arch=compute_20,code=sm_20  --machine 32 Release\kernel.cu.obj 
1> CUDALINK : nvlink error : Undefined reference to '_ZN4Test15device_functionEv' in 'Release/kernel.cu.obj'`

Answer 1

OK, so VS with the CUDA plug-in has two different Item Type s that it catalogues differently, a CUDA C/C++ source/header file and a C/C++ source/header and you cannot simply convert one to another by renaming *.cpp to *.cu which is what I was doing originally to try force it to compile the class into an object which I could link to.

I re-added the files Test.cpp and Test.h with exactly the same source code as Test.cu and Test.cuh respectively by right-clicking in the solution explorer and going to Add Item -> CUDA source/header file and now it builds the kernel.cu and the Test.cu/h into two objects which are both supplied during the linking stage and the problem disappears.

Thanks to @talonmies for helping point me in the right direction.

EDIT

As I mentioned in the comments, you can simply rename the files if you still need to tell VS that they are now a different Item Type . Originally I managed to do this by editing the *.vcxproj file to tell the CUDA compiler to compile the renamed files. This is done by changing the <ItemGroup> definitions like this:

<ItemGroup>
  <CudaCompile Include="main.cu" />
  <CudaCompile Include="RenamedSrcFile.cu" />
</ItemGroup>

<ItemGroup>
  <ClInclude Include="RenamedHeaderFile.cuh" />
  <ClInclude Include="myOtherHeader.h" />
</ItemGroup>

This line <CudaCompile Include="RenamedSrcFile.cu" /> is the key and includes this file in the CUDA compile stage. Regular C++ files appear under the group <ClCompile> although none are given in this example.

As indicated by Robert's comment you should never need to edit the *.vcxproj file directly as VS will manage the file for you based on the options you select in VS. By (re-)adding the files as I did earlier, this swap is taken care of by VS.

EDIT2

As per Drop's suggestion in the comments, you may achieve this swap without re-adding files by right-clicking on the file in the solution explorer and under Properties->General you may select the Item Type to be a CUDA C/C++ rather than C/C++ to catalogue it correctly.