System information

• Have I written custom code: No
• OS Platform and Distribution: Windows 10
• TensorFlow installed from:source
• TensorFlow version:master
• Bazel version:NA
• CUDA/cuDNN version:8.0/5.1
• GPU model and memory:GTX 1080
• Exact command to reproduce:MSBuild /p:Configuration=Release tf_python_build_pip_package.vcxproj

Describe the problem

I was following cmake build instruction
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorflow/contrib/cmake
to build python package with GPU support using visual studio 2015 Update 3. It took a few hours until I hit fatal error C1001.

logs

c:\work\libraries_local\tensorflow\tensorflow\core\kernels\reduction_ops_gpu.cu.cc(64): fatal error C1001: An internal error has occurred in the compiler. [C:\work\libraries_local\tensorflow\tensorflow\contrib\cmake\build\tf_core_gpu_kernels.vcxproj]
  
  (compiler file 'f:\dd\vctools\compiler\utc\src\p2\main.c', line 255)
  
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