Error compiling OpenCV, fatal error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory

Question

I'm trying to compile OpenCV. I've tried the master branch (which is currently on commit dc9602e) and version/tag 3.1.0. I'm using Fedora 24, I first tried using gcc that comes with Fedora (gcc (GCC) 6.2.1 20160916 (Red Hat 6.2.1-2)). I have also tried with GCC 6.2.0, compiled on my machine.

I'm using cmake with the following parameters:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DBUILD_NEW_PYTHON_SUPPORT=ON -DINSTALL_PYTHON_EXAMPLES=ON -DWITH_TBB=ON -DWITH_V4L=ON -DINSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=ON -DWITH_QT=ON -DWITH_OPENGL=ON -DWITH_OPENCL=ON -DWITH_EIGEN=ON -DWITH_OPENEXR=ON

cmake runs fine and then I run make. Doesn't matter the commbination of OpenCV version and gcc version, the result is the same:

In file included from /usr/local/include/c++/6.2.0/bits/stl_algo.h:59:0,
                 from /usr/local/include/c++/6.2.0/algorithm:62,
                 from /home/dmelo/proj2/opencv/modules/core/include/opencv2/core/base.hpp:55,
                 from /home/dmelo/proj2/opencv/modules/core/include/opencv2/core.hpp:54,
                 from /home/dmelo/proj2/opencv/modules/highgui/include/opencv2/highgui.hpp:46,
                 from /home/dmelo/proj2/opencv/build/modules/highgui/precomp.hpp:45:
/usr/local/include/c++/6.2.0/cstdlib:75:25: fatal error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
 #include_next <stdlib.h>
                         ^
compilation terminated.

Is anyone else experiencing this? How can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

Try by disabling pre-compiled headers, either from cmake-gui or using the command line parameter

-DENABLE_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS=OFF

Answer 2

Compiling from zip package (opencv-2.4.11) did not work for me but the latest version* from github repo gave me a successful build on ubuntu 17.04

git clone https://github.com/opencv/opencv.git
cd opencv
mkdir mybin
cd mybin
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DENABLE_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS=OFF -DWITH_FFMPEG=OFF ..
make
sudo make install

Update: You might want to do git checkout 3.4 after git clone because the master branch has many new changes since I wrote this

Note: ffmpeg is deprecated and optional so I have used WITH_FFMPEG=OFF flag
Update: I could build with ffmpeg on 18.04, used WITH_FFMPEG=ON flag. Latest ffmpeg should work with 17.04 as well. Comment down if you were successful!

*OpenCV commit id cca99bf8249387da9f79be8d549b2d49e39a0289

Additional info: Dependencies I installed before compiling-

build-essential cmake git libgtk2.0-dev pkg-config python-dev python-numpy libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev libdc1394-22-dev libtbb2 libtbb-dev

Hope this helps someone in future!