# OpenACC + CUDA + CMake
**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/openacc-cuda-cmake/9317
**Category:** Code
**Tags:** lang:cuda
**Created:** [October 31, 2023, 8:38am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/openacc-cuda-cmake/9317 "2023-10-31T08:38:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@mihaly\_sisak\_conti](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/mihaly_sisak_conti)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 8:38am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/openacc-cuda-cmake/9317/1 "2023-10-31T08:38:00Z")
New users can not upload attachements, so I linked them here:
[https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/openacc-cuda-interop-with-cmake/270794/4?u=janos.mihaly.sisak](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/openacc-cuda-interop-with-cmake/270794/4?u=janos.mihaly.sisak)
We would like to use C with OpenACC pragmas and CUDA kernels in some hotspots.
With make everything is fine. However we would like to build with CMake.
We started with this repo:
[https://github.com/jefflarkin/openacc-interoperability](https://github.com/jefflarkin/openacc-interoperability)
We needed to remove \ from CMAKE\_CUDA\_LINK\_EXECUTABLE because it tries to link cuda libraries in the nvc++ link step, causing errors at runtime. This way however we can not link external libraries, which we want to do.
The CMake line with added LINK\_LIBRARIES:
```auto
set(CMAKE_CUDA_LINK_EXECUTABLE " -o ")
```
It would be preferable to have an elegant solution work, without the cmake list mangling for example. Is it possible?
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/openacc-cuda-cmake/9317/2 "2023-11-02T21:16:38Z")
Cc: @robert.maynard