Hands-On GPU Programming with Python and CUDA

Creating an environment launch script (Windows)

Windows users will need to be particularly careful that both their Visual Studio and Anaconda Python environment variables are set up correctly in order to use PyCUDA; otherwise, Python will not be able to find NVIDIA's nvcc CUDA compiler or Microsoft's cl.exe C++ compiler. Fortunately, batch scripts are included that will set up these environments for us automatically, but we will have to be careful that these are executed each and every time we want to do GPU programming.

We will, therefore, create a batch script that will launch an appropriate IDE or command-line environment by calling these other two scripts in succession. (This script is also available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-GPU-Programming-with-Python-and-CUDA/blob/master/2/launch-python-cuda-environment.bat ...