Before installing the NVIDIA^® DriveWorks SDK, please install NVIDIA DRIVE^® OS. Refer to the NVIDIA DRIVE OS Installation Guide and Release Notes for installation details.

Successfully installing NVIDIA DRIVE OS also installs the following items on the NVIDIA DRIVE target platform and host systems:

NVIDIA DRIVE OS 5.2.6.0 SDK/PDK
NVIDIA CUDA^® Toolkit version 10.2.526
cuDNN 7.6.6.415
TensorRT^™ version 6.5.0.7
CMake version 3.17.3
GCC version 7.3.1

Hardware Prerequisites

The following hardware item is required:

Host System: An x86 computer with a NVIDIA Volta^™ or Turing^™ based GPU.

The following hardware item is optional, but strongly recommended:

Target System: An NVIDIA DRIVE platform with the latest NVIDIA DRIVE OS flashed on the system.

x86 Host System Prerequisites

Please ensure the following DriveWorks dependencies are installed on your x86 computer running the Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) operating system:

cmake (>= 3.14.0)
libdrm-dev
libegl1-mesa-dev
libgl1-mesa-dev
libgles2-mesa-dev
libglu1-mesa-dev
libqt5core5a
libqt5gui5
libqt5qml5
libusb-1.0-0
libx11-dev
libxcursor-dev
libxinerama-dev
libxrandr-dev
libxxf86vm-dev
x11proto-dev
zlib1g-dev

Desktop development relies on the NVIDIA Video Decoder (NVCUVID) for video decoding, which is included with the NVIDIA drivers. In general, the cmake build scripts can find NVCUVID installation. However, if this fails, you must set a symbolic link /usr/lib/nvidia-current pointing to your NVIDIA driver library, for instance to /usr/lib/nvidia-xyz.

Installation

The following sections provide platform-specific instructions for installing NVIDIA^® DriveWorks:

To verify that the NVIDIA DriveWorks SDK is correctly installed, see Verify Your Installation.