OpenCV 4.x+ requires enabled C++11 support compilation darknet fatal error

Question

I just compiled and installed the last version of OpenCV 3.4.0 and I would like to compile darknet (for yolo object detection), but at compilation, I have

gcc -Iinclude/ -Isrc/ -DOPENCV `pkg-config --cflags opencv`  -DGPU -I/usr/local/cuda-9.1/include/ -Wall -Wno-unused-result -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wfatal-errors -fPIC -Ofast -DOPENCV  -DGPU  -c ./src/gemm.c -o obj/gemm.o
In file included from /usr/local/include/opencv2/core/types_c.h:59:0,
                 from /usr/local/include/opencv2/core/core_c.h:48,
                 from /usr/local/include/opencv2/highgui/highgui_c.h:45,
                 from include/darknet.h:25,
                 from ./src/utils.h:5,
                 from ./src/gemm.c:2:
/usr/local/include/opencv2/core/cvdef.h:421:4: error: #error "OpenCV 4.x+ requires enabled C++11 support"
 #  error "OpenCV 4.x+ requires enabled C++11 support"
    ^
compilation terminated due to -Wfatal-errors.
Makefile:86: recipe for target 'obj/gemm.o' failed
make: *** [obj/gemm.o] Error 1

How it is possible, because in Makefile (below), I compile C

GPU=1
CUDNN=0
OPENCV=1
OPENMP=0
DEBUG=0

ARCH= -gencode arch=compute_30,code=sm_30 \
      -gencode arch=compute_35,code=sm_35 \
      -gencode arch=compute_50,code=[sm_50,compute_50] \
      -gencode arch=compute_52,code=[sm_52,compute_52]
#      -gencode arch=compute_20,code=[sm_20,sm_21] \ This one is deprecated?

# This is what I use, uncomment if you know your arch and want to specify
# ARCH= -gencode arch=compute_52,code=compute_52

VPATH=./src/:./examples
SLIB=libdarknet.so
ALIB=libdarknet.a
EXEC=darknet
OBJDIR=./obj/

CC=gcc
NVCC=nvcc 
NVCCFLAGS += -D_FORCE_INLINES -ccbin=$(CXX) -Xcompiler -fPIC $(COMMON_FLAGS)
AR=ar
ARFLAGS=rcs
OPTS=-Ofast
LDFLAGS= -lm -pthread 
COMMON= -Iinclude/ -Isrc/
CFLAGS=-Wall -Wno-unused-result -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wfatal-errors -fPIC

ifeq ($(OPENMP), 1) 
CFLAGS+= -fopenmp
endif

ifeq ($(DEBUG), 1) 
OPTS=-O0 -g
endif

CFLAGS+=$(OPTS)

ifeq ($(OPENCV), 1) 
COMMON+= -DOPENCV
CFLAGS+= -DOPENCV 
LDFLAGS+= `pkg-config --libs opencv` 
COMMON+= `pkg-config --cflags opencv` 
endif

ifeq ($(GPU), 1) 
COMMON+= -DGPU -I/usr/local/cuda-9.1/include/
CFLAGS+= -DGPU 
LDFLAGS+= -L/usr/local/cuda-9.1/lib64 -lcudart -lcublas -lcurand
endif

ifeq ($(CUDNN), 1) 
COMMON+= -DCUDNN 
CFLAGS+= -DCUDNN 
LDFLAGS+= -lcudnn
endif

OBJ=gemm.o utils.o cuda.o deconvolutional_layer.o convolutional_layer.o list.o image.o activations.o im2col.o col2im.o blas.o crop_layer.o dropout_layer.o maxpool_layer.o softmax_layer.o data.o matrix.o network.o connected_layer.o cost_layer.o parser.o option_list.o detection_layer.o route_layer.o upsample_layer.o box.o normalization_layer.o avgpool_layer.o layer.o local_layer.o shortcut_layer.o logistic_layer.o activation_layer.o rnn_layer.o gru_layer.o crnn_layer.o demo.o batchnorm_layer.o region_layer.o reorg_layer.o tree.o  lstm_layer.o l2norm_layer.o yolo_layer.o
EXECOBJA=captcha.o lsd.o super.o art.o tag.o cifar.o go.o rnn.o segmenter.o regressor.o classifier.o coco.o yolo.o detector.o nightmare.o darknet.o
ifeq ($(GPU), 1) 
LDFLAGS+= -lstdc++ 
OBJ+=convolutional_kernels.o deconvolutional_kernels.o activation_kernels.o im2col_kernels.o col2im_kernels.o blas_kernels.o crop_layer_kernels.o dropout_layer_kernels.o maxpool_layer_kernels.o avgpool_layer_kernels.o
endif

EXECOBJ = $(addprefix $(OBJDIR), $(EXECOBJA))
OBJS = $(addprefix $(OBJDIR), $(OBJ))
DEPS = $(wildcard src/*.h) Makefile include/darknet.h

#all: obj backup results $(SLIB) $(ALIB) $(EXEC)
all: obj  results $(SLIB) $(ALIB) $(EXEC)


$(EXEC): $(EXECOBJ) $(ALIB)
    $(CC) $(COMMON) $(CFLAGS) $^ -o $@ $(LDFLAGS) $(ALIB)

$(ALIB): $(OBJS)
    $(AR) $(ARFLAGS) $@ $^

$(SLIB): $(OBJS)
    $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -shared $^ -o $@ $(LDFLAGS)

$(OBJDIR)%.o: %.c $(DEPS)
    $(CC) $(COMMON) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@

$(OBJDIR)%.o: %.cu $(DEPS)
    $(NVCC) $(ARCH) $(COMMON) --compiler-options "$(CFLAGS)" -c $< -o $@

obj:
    mkdir -p obj
backup:
    mkdir -p backup
results:
    mkdir -p results

.PHONY: clean

clean:
    rm -rf $(OBJS) $(SLIB) $(ALIB) $(EXEC) $(EXECOBJ) $(OBJDIR)

And what's the solution for this error ? How I can enable C++11 support ?

Thank for your help !

Answer 1

I've resolved the problem.

Uninstall opencv completely.

Download OpenCV Release 3.4.0 https://github.com/opencv/opencv/releases/tag/3.4.0 and not 3.4.1

With Cmake-gui (or not), ENABLE_CXX11 = 1

Recompile make -j4, install make install, sudo ldconfig and finally it works !

Conclusion : Never use the last version of anything

Answer 2

Well, There is no need to Un-install and Re-Install OpenCV Just add -std=c++11 in your compile line . Say your File is main, and you want the object file to be output .

g++ -std=c++11 main.cpp -o output `pkg-config --cflags --libs opencv`

And to view the output , type ->

./output