Allow compiling with CUDA without CUDA runtime installed #7989
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On hosts which are not prepared/dedicated to execute code using CUDA it is still possible to compile llama.cpp with CUDA support by just installing the development packages. Missing are the runtime libraries like /usr/lib64/libcuda.so* and currently the link step will fail. The development environment is prepared for such situations. There are stub libraries for all the CUDA libraries available in the $(CUDA_PATH)/lib64/stubs directory. Adding this directory to the end of the search path will not change anything for environments which currently work fine but will enable compiling llama.cpp also in case the runtime code is not available.
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On hosts which are not prepared/dedicated to execute code using CUDA it is still possible to compile llama.cpp with CUDA support by just installing the development packages. Missing are the runtime libraries like /usr/lib64/libcuda.so* and currently the link step will fail.
The development environment is prepared for such situations. There are stub libraries for all the CUDA libraries available in the $(CUDA_PATH)/lib64/stubs directory. Adding this directory to the end of the search path will not change anything for environments which currently work fine but will enable compiling llama.cpp also in case the runtime code is not available.