Failed to install the compile the submodules on Windows 10 about gaussian-splatting

[jonstephens85]

I don't have a solution, however, the issue you are running into is that the lastest version of VS2022 and Cuda Toolkit 11.8 are not compatible with each other. This is a big issue for building many of these gaussian splatting projects at the moment. You would need to use CUDA Toolkit 12.x which by default has issues with this project. This problem popped up when VS2022 had an update in late May 2024. Maybe someone on here has a solution.

[RuihanGao]

Update: I reinstall the environment so that cuda toolkit is installed after Visual Studio 2022, but the compilation fails with a slightly different error:

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com
Processing c:\users\ruihan28\documents\projects\gaussian-splatting\submodules\diff-gaussian-rasterization
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: diff_gaussian_rasterization
  Building wheel for diff_gaussian_rasterization (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [18 lines of output]
      running bdist_wheel
      C:\Users\ruihan28\.conda\envs\gs\lib\site-packages\torch\utils\cpp_extension.py:500: UserWarning: Attempted to use ninja as the BuildExtension backend but we could not find ninja.. Falling back to using the slow distutils backend.
        warnings.warn(msg.format('we could not find ninja.'))
      running build
      running build_py
      creating build
      creating build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-310
      creating build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-310\diff_gaussian_rasterization
      copying diff_gaussian_rasterization\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-cpython-310\diff_gaussian_rasterization
      running build_ext
      building 'diff_gaussian_rasterization._C' extension
      creating build\temp.win-amd64-cpython-310
      creating build\temp.win-amd64-cpython-310\Release
      creating build\temp.win-amd64-cpython-310\Release\cuda_rasterizer
      "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v12.1\bin\nvcc" -c cuda_rasterizer/backward.cu -o build\temp.win-amd64-cpython-310\Release\cuda_rasterizer/backward.obj -IC:\Users\ruihan28\.conda\envs\gs\lib\site-packages\torch\include -IC:\Users\ruihan28\.conda\envs\gs\lib\site-packages\torch\include\torch\csrc\api\include -IC:\Users\ruihan28\.conda\envs\gs\lib\site-packages\torch\include\TH -IC:\Users\ruihan28\.conda\envs\gs\lib\site-packages\torch\include\THC "-IC:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v12.1\include" -IC:\Users\ruihan28\.conda\envs\gs\include -IC:\Users\ruihan28\.conda\envs\gs\Include "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.40.33807\include" "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.40.33807\ATLMFC\include" "-IC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\VS\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.22621.0\\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.22621.0\\shared" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.22621.0\\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.22621.0\\cppwinrt" -Xcudafe --diag_suppress=dll_interface_conflict_dllexport_assumed -Xcudafe --diag_suppress=dll_interface_conflict_none_assumed -Xcudafe --diag_suppress=field_without_dll_interface -Xcudafe --diag_suppress=base_class_has_different_dll_interface -Xcompiler /EHsc -Xcompiler /wd4068 -Xcompiler /wd4067 -Xcompiler /wd4624 -Xcompiler /wd4190 -Xcompiler /wd4018 -Xcompiler /wd4275 -Xcompiler /wd4267 -Xcompiler /wd4244 -Xcompiler /wd4251 -Xcompiler /wd4819 -Xcompiler /MD -D__CUDA_NO_HALF_OPERATORS__ -D__CUDA_NO_HALF_CONVERSIONS__ -D__CUDA_NO_BFLOAT16_CONVERSIONS__ -D__CUDA_NO_HALF2_OPERATORS__ --expt-relaxed-constexpr -IC:\Users\ruihan28\Documents\projects\gaussian-splatting\submodules\diff-gaussian-rasterization\third_party/glm/ -DTORCH_API_INCLUDE_EXTENSION_H -DTORCH_EXTENSION_NAME=_C -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 -gencode=arch=compute_86,code=compute_86 -gencode=arch=compute_86,code=sm_86 -std=c++17 --use-local-env
      C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v12.1\include\crt/host_config.h(153): fatal error C1189: #error:  -- unsupported Microsoft Visual Studio version! Only the versions between 2017 and 2022 (inclusive) are supported! The nvcc flag '-allow-unsupported-compiler' can be used to override this version check; however, using an unsupported host compiler may cause compilation failure or incorrect run time execution. Use at your own risk.
      backward.cu
      error: command 'C:\\Program Files\\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\\CUDA\\v12.1\\bin\\nvcc.exe' failed with exit code 2
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for diff_gaussian_rasterization
  Running setup.py clean for diff_gaussian_rasterization
Failed to build diff_gaussian_rasterization
ERROR: Could not build wheels for diff_gaussian_rasterization, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects