issue building demos related to GPU

[lee7632]

I am not sure why building the demos related to GPU failed on my Windows machine. Would you mind helping me debug this issue?
I updated the submodules. I also attached part of the CMake configuration output below.

2>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(245,5): error MSB8066: Custom build for 'C:\workspace\chrono\src\chrono_gpu\cuda\ChGpu_SMC.cu;C:\workspace\chrono\src\chrono_gpu\cuda\ChGpu_SMC_trimesh.cu' exited with code 1.
2>Done building project "ChronoEngine_gpu.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
3>------ Build started: Project: demo_GPU_terrainBox_SMC, Configuration: Release x64 ------
4>------ Build started: Project: demo_GPU_repose, Configuration: Release x64 ------
5>------ Build started: Project: demo_GPU_movingBoundary, Configuration: Release x64 ------
6>------ Build started: Project: demo_GPU_mixer, Configuration: Release x64 ------
7>------ Build started: Project: demo_GPU_fixedterrain, Configuration: Release x64 ------
8>------ Build started: Project: demo_GPU_compression, Configuration: Release x64 ------
9>------ Build started: Project: demo_GPU_ballcosim, Configuration: Release x64 ------
3>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '......\lib\Release\ChronoEngine_gpu.lib'
3>Done building project "demo_GPU_terrainBox_SMC.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
4>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(1092,5): error MSB6006: "link.exe" exited with code 1181.
8>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(1092,5): error MSB6006: "link.exe" exited with code 1181.
7>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(1092,5): error MSB6006: "link.exe" exited with code 1181.
5>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(1092,5): error MSB6006: "link.exe" exited with code 1181.
6>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(1092,5): error MSB6006: "link.exe" exited with code 1181.
4>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '......\lib\Release\ChronoEngine_gpu.lib'
4>Done building project "demo_GPU_repose.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
8>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '......\lib\Release\ChronoEngine_gpu.lib'
8>Done building project "demo_GPU_compression.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
7>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '......\lib\Release\ChronoEngine_gpu.lib'
7>Done building project "demo_GPU_fixedterrain.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
5>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '......\lib\Release\ChronoEngine_gpu.lib'
5>Done building project "demo_GPU_movingBoundary.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
6>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '......\lib\Release\ChronoEngine_gpu.lib'
6>Done building project "demo_GPU_mixer.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
9>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(1092,5): error MSB6006: "link.exe" exited with code 1181.
9>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '......\lib\Release\ChronoEngine_gpu.lib'
9>Done building project "demo_GPU_ballcosim.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
10>------ Skipped Build: Project: PACKAGE, Configuration: Release x64 ------
10>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
11>------ Skipped Build: Project: INSTALL, Configuration: Release x64 ------
11>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 8 failed, 84 up-to-date, 2 skipped ==========

Searching for MPI...
MPI (C++) found: TRUE
MPI compiler: MPI_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND
MPI compile flags:
MPI include path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SDKs/MPI/Include
MPI link flags:
MPI libraries: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SDKs/MPI/Lib/x64/msmpi.lib

MPIEXEC: C:/Program Files/Microsoft MPI/Bin/mpiexec.exe
MPIEXEC_NUMPROC_FLAG: -n
MPIEXEC_PREFLAGS:
MPIEXEC_POSTFLAGS:
Searching for CUDA...
CUDA version: 11.6
CUDA toolkit root dir: C:/Program Files/NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit/CUDA/v11.6
Compiling for CUDA architecture: 8.6
CUDA compile flags: -gencode;arch=compute_86,code=sm_86`

[dariomangoni]

Hi @lee7632, sorry for late reply: is this issue still valid?
We might close old issues!