Not finding header files while compiling thrust example code

Question

I downloaded thrust 1.70 and 1.60 from thrust webpage to my home directory, /home/me/project/thrust. When I try to run the example below, using gcc -c -I/home/me/project thrust_1_example.cpp , I received error messages that header files are not found: In file included from /home/me/project/thrust/detail/config.h:22, from /home/me/project/thrust/host_vector.h:24, from thrust_1_example.cpp:1: /home/me/project/thrust/detail/config/config.h:25:49: error: thrust/detail/config/simple_defines.h: No such file or directory

I found that detail/config is indeed empty. Am I missing something?

#include <thrust/host_vector.h>
#include <thrust/device_vector.h>

#include <iostream>

int main(void)
{
    // H has storage for 4 integers
    thrust::host_vector<int> H(4);

    // initialize individual elements
    H[0] = 14;
    H[1] = 20;
    H[2] = 38;
    H[3] = 46;

    // H.size() returns the size of vector H
    std::cout << "H has size " << H.size() << std::endl;

    // print contents of H
    for(int i = 0; i < H.size(); i++)
        std::cout << "H[" << i << "] = " << H[i] << std::endl;

    // resize H
    H.resize(2);

    std::cout << "H now has size " << H.size() << std::endl;

    // Copy host_vector H to device_vector D
    thrust::device_vector<int> D = H;

    // elements of D can be modified
    D[0] = 99;
    D[1] = 88;

    // print contents of D
    for(int i = 0; i < D.size(); i++)
        std::cout << "D[" << i << "] = " << D[i] << std::endl;

    // H and D are automatically deleted when the function returns
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

If you simply install CUDA 5.5 you will get thrust 1.7.

If you are targeting a GPU backend (meaning you want to run your thrust code on the GPU) it requires nvcc, the GPU device code compiler/compiler driver, which comes with CUDA 5.5.

You cannot build thrust GPU code with gcc (you must use nvcc) and the file name should end in .cu not .cpp