Windows CUDA 11.8 failing

[jakirkham]

The Windows CUDA 11.8 builds are currently failing. A snippet of the error is below

Internal error: assertion failed at: "overload.c", line 28946 in deduce_class_template_args


1 catastrophic error detected in the compilation of "D:/bld/xgboost-split_1721879098936/work/src/data/ellpack_page_source.cu".

Compilation aborted.

ellpack_page_source.cu

nvcc error   : 'cudafe++' died with status 0xC0000409 

Have also attached the full log

We tried a variety of things in an attempt to remedy this in PR ( #167 ). The full history is there

Unfortunately we were unable to resolve this build error. So decided to skip it and raise this issue to track

[hcho3]

Confirming that I am able to reproduce the issue on my Windows 11 desktop, using the following setups:

• MSVC 2022 + CTK 11.8 + CCCL 2.3.2 from Conda
• MSVC 2022 + CTK 11.8 + built-in Thrust, CUB, libcudacxx

Steps to reproduce:

1. Check out the latest master branch of XGBoost.
2. Run CMake:

cmake -G"Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 -DUSE_CUDA=ON -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=86  ..

or

cmake -G"Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 -DUSE_CUDA=ON -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=86 ^
   -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$env:CONDA_PREFIX\Library ..

(If using Conda)

3. Build

cmake --build . --config Release -- /m ^
    "/consoleloggerparameters:ShowCommandLine;Verbosity=minimal"

[hcho3]

FYI: XGBoost's CI/CD pipeline uses CTK 12.4 to test Windows.

[jakirkham]

Obsolete as CUDA 11 was dropped with the upgrade to XGBoost 3: #226