title: CUDA 4.2. toolbox & VS2010
body: <p>I am trying to compile Cuda SDK examples but I am getting "MSB3721 error" since "nvcc" is "exited with code 1". Complete output:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"C:\Program Files
    (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\BuildCustomizations\CUDA
    4.2.targets(361,9): error MSB3721: The command ""C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v4.2\bin\nvcc.exe"
    -gencode=arch=compute_10,code=\"sm_10,compute_10\" -gencode=arch=compute_20,code=\"sm_20,compute_20\" -gencode=arch=compute_30,code=\"sm_30,compute_30\" --use-local-env --cl-version 2010 -ccbin "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\x86_amd64" -I"./" -I"../../common/inc"
    -I"../../../shared/inc" -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v4.2\include"  -G  --keep-dir "x64\Debug" -maxrregcount=0
    --machine 64 --compile  -g    -Xcompiler "/EHsc /nologo /Od /Zi  /MTd  " -o "x64/Debug/bandwidthTest.cu.obj" "C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA
    Corporation\NVIDIA GPU Computing SDK
    4.2\C\src\bandwidthTest\bandwidthTest.cu"" exited with code 1."</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Cuda toolkit 4.2 is used on Win7 x64 Ultimate system with VS2010 Ultimate. 
  The error remains when the "win32" option in "Configuration management" is used.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>!!!!! Finally after reading all available NVIDIA manuals about "Getting started with CUDA" after reinstalling Win7+VS2010+CUDA drivers more than 10 times after building a new computer (Z77 mobo + i7 + GTX550Ti) and after waiting for months the NVIDIA forum resurrection I found out that the problem with the nvcc build error "exited with code 1" was disappeared when the "Run as administrator" option was selected on the VS2010 shortcut on my desktop!!!!!!
  Although I was using an administrator account (the only account on the PC) it was impossible to build any of the CUDA Examples. The executables were running without any problem but I couldn't build the source code using VS2010! </p>
  
  <p>!!!!!Thank you all for your support!!!!!</p>