cannot make install succeed

[yinloonga]

hello, I want to use C++ API, then I followed your instructions Build from source in Linux. But, when I tried to use sudo make instal, I got some messages.
make_install.log

You know, most of the CMakeLists.txt projects can be installed as the below instructions:

git clone https://github.com/PRBonn/vdbfusion.git
cd vbdfusion && mkdir build && cmake ..
make -j4

Some things looked better than before( Because I can see the download packages process). However, I also got some messages;
make_j4.log

As the terminal output to screen, I tried to find what happened in make.
bootstrap.log

It just looks like having some problems with boost, I found some answers to this question(undefined reference to), but I don't know if it's correct. By the way, my system(Ubuntu 20.04) has installed boost(1.71), and your packages also need to reinstall boost as 3third libraries(the required boose version also is 1.71).

I don't know the next what I should do. Please give some tips.
So, I wish you can help me solve this problem when you have little time. Thank you!

[nachovizzo]

So let me see if I understand.

If you want to install JUST the C++ API, then it should be straight forward. Just follow the instructions in the Install.md. As mentioned there, you need to make sure that all the 3rdparty dependencies are installed locally. This means you should install the OpenVDB library and also Eigen3.

Now about your errors.

make_install.log

This looks like you are trying to build the pip package, so don't run make or pip install . if you don't need them

make_j4.log

From inspecting the log I can tell you didn't install the dependencies as requested, and it's failing (although the error is somehow strange, it says Consult 'bootstrap.log' for more details, which indeed exhibits a linking error I haven't seen before. Anyways, you must install the dependencies from source in case you need the C++ API. Since to make sure everything is working system-wise, you must have those installed beforehand. Luckilly is not a big challenge, just follow the instructions on the main Dockerfile and that should be it

# Install C++ Dependencies
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
    libblosc-dev \
    libboost-iostreams-dev \
    libboost-numpy-dev \
    libboost-python-dev \
    libboost-system-dev \
    libeigen3-dev \
    libtbb-dev

# Install OpenVDB from source
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nachovizzo/openvdb.git -b nacho/vdbfusion \
    && cd openvdb \
    && mkdir build && cd build \
    && cmake \
    -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON \
    -DUSE_ZLIB=OFF \
    ..\
    && sudo make -j$(nproc) all install \

Summary

To achieve your goal, just install the dependencies as specified in the last step and try to make install again

Please close this issue if this fix your problem, and if you feel like the Installation instructions are not clear, feel free to submit a merge request with updated instructions.

[yinloonga]

Thank you very much for your prompt reply. And I'm sorry for my late reply. I just followed your instructions. Then I got messages in the terminal:

Scanning dependencies of target vdbfusion
[ 33%] Building CXX object src/vdbfusion/vdbfusion/CMakeFiles/vdbfusion.dir/MarchingCubes.cpp.o
[ 66%] Building CXX object src/vdbfusion/vdbfusion/CMakeFiles/vdbfusion.dir/VDBVolume.cpp.o
[100%] Linking CXX static library libvdbfusion.a
[100%] Built target vdbfusion
Install the project...
-- Install configuration: "Release"
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libvdbfusion.a
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/vdbfusion/VDBVolume.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/VDBFusion/VDBFusionTargets.cmake
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/VDBFusion/VDBFusionTargets-release.cmake
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/VDBFusion/VDBFusionConfig.cmake
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/cmake/VDBFusion/VDBFusionConfigVersion.cmake

It looks like the installation was successful。 Thank you so much.

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You know, I want to learn about VDBFusion C++ API. Then I compiled the examples-cpp folder. It's used KITTI 07 dataset.
I read your paper about 5.Experiments, you also test on the RGB-D dataset Cow and Lay dataset. I have seen other paper also used Cow and Lay dataset, and my part work also about RGB-D cameras. So, can you provide the previous test program code for cow_lady_dataset? Than you.

[nachovizzo]

I have a hideous C++ implementation for the cow and lady dataset, which is going to confuse you instead of help. You have 2 options then:

1. Use the vdbfusion_ros we released a few weeks ago, where there is an example with cow and lady
2. Write a C++ dataloader yourself, and make a contribution for this repository. I'd be more than happy to integrate it :)

[yinloonga]

Ok, thank you! I'll try my best to try to make any improvements to this project in my future studies.

However, I tried using vdbfusion_ros as you instructed and got some Extract Triangle Mesh that looked ok. But here, for cow_and_lady dataset, I don't know if it has something to do with the dataset itself when I try to get data on the topic /camera/depth_registered/points in Rviz, it gives an error. Here is a video showing what happened.
Obviously, I have forced the setting The world is the fixed base link. I don't know why this is happening, can you see what the problem is, thanks.

Really appreciate your previous reply. Thanks again.

[nachovizzo]

This sounds like a ROS problem, feel free to open a new issue on the vdbfusion-ros in case you are still struggling.

Best wishes!