Caffe: opencv error

Question

I've built opencv 3.0 from source and can run a few sample apps, build against the headers ok so I presume it's installed successfully.

I'm also using python3 and I now go to install and build caffe. I set a few variables in Makefile.config as I'm using the CPU due to having an AMD GPU and also Anaconda.

When I run make all I get this error:

$ make all
CXX/LD -o .build_release/examples/cpp_classification/classification.bin
/usr/bin/ld: .build_release/examples/cpp_classification/classification.o: undefined reference to symbol '_ZN2cv6imreadERKNS_6StringEi'
//usr/local/lib/libopencv_imgcodecs.so.3.0: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:565: recipe for target '.build_release/examples/cpp_classification/classification.bin' failed
make: *** [.build_release/examples/cpp_classification/classification.bin] Error 1

from searching I think this is something to do with using openCV 3 but I'm not sure where to start looking for a solution. Any help?

And yes I'm one of the horde of inexperienced users looking to fiddle with the Google Inception learning technique.

Answer 1

You can also add the opencv_imgcodecs to the MakeFile in line 187, see this pull.

Answer 2

It could be that you are using OpenCV version 3. If yes just uncomment the following line in your Makefile.config:

# OPENCV_VERSION := 3

So it will look like

OPENCV_VERSION := 3

You could verify the version currently in use by doing:

$ python
>>> import cv2
>>> cv2.__version__
'3.1.0-dev'

Answer 3

The problem report is very clear. There is a problem with linking library libraries.The reason may be the difference between 3.0 and 2.x. You need to add

opencv_core opencv_highgui opencv_imgproc opencv_imgcodecs

into LIBRARIES +=.