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-rw-r--r--Help/envvar/CUDAHOSTCXX.rst4
-rw-r--r--Modules/FindCUDA.cmake6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Help/envvar/CUDAHOSTCXX.rst b/Help/envvar/CUDAHOSTCXX.rst
index f0f94f6..bb786ca 100644
--- a/Help/envvar/CUDAHOSTCXX.rst
+++ b/Help/envvar/CUDAHOSTCXX.rst
@@ -7,3 +7,7 @@ determine ``CUDA`` host compiler, after which the value for ``CUDAHOSTCXX`` is
stored in the cache as :variable:`CMAKE_CUDA_HOST_COMPILER`. For any
configuration run (including the first), the environment variable will be
ignored if the :variable:`CMAKE_CUDA_HOST_COMPILER` variable is defined.
+
+This environment variable is primarily meant for use with projects that
+enable ``CUDA`` as a first-class language. The :module:`FindCUDA`
+module will also use it to initialize its ``CUDA_HOST_COMPILER`` setting.
diff --git a/Modules/FindCUDA.cmake b/Modules/FindCUDA.cmake
index 1650e55..686e2e7 100644
--- a/Modules/FindCUDA.cmake
+++ b/Modules/FindCUDA.cmake
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@
# the host compiler is constructed with one or more visual studio macros
# such as $(VCInstallDir), that expands out to the path when
# the command is run from within VS.
+# If the CUDAHOSTCXX environment variable is set it will
+# be used as the default.
#
# CUDA_NVCC_FLAGS
# CUDA_NVCC_FLAGS_<CONFIG>
@@ -527,7 +529,9 @@ option(CUDA_HOST_COMPILATION_CPP "Generated file extension" ON)
# Extra user settable flags
cmake_initialize_per_config_variable(CUDA_NVCC_FLAGS "Semi-colon delimit multiple arguments.")
-if(CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Visual Studio")
+if(DEFINED ENV{CUDAHOSTCXX})
+ set(CUDA_HOST_COMPILER "$ENV{CUDAHOSTCXX}" CACHE FILEPATH "Host side compiler used by NVCC")
+elseif(CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Visual Studio")
set(_CUDA_MSVC_HOST_COMPILER "$(VCInstallDir)Tools/MSVC/$(VCToolsVersion)/bin/Host$(Platform)/$(PlatformTarget)")
if(MSVC_VERSION LESS 1910)
set(_CUDA_MSVC_HOST_COMPILER "$(VCInstallDir)bin")