I need to install PCL (point cloud library) on a Linux server without root access. Then I downloaded the source and checked for dependences. And here we go...
These are the dependencies I've found:
PCL --BOOST ----ZLIB ----BZIP --EIGEN --FLANN ----HDF5 ----LIBUSB ------UDEV --------GLIB ----------LIBFFI ----------ZLIB --VTK
I need to compile glib from source. Glib requires FFI libraries so I downloaded them, compiled and installed them in
/home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed
then I set these variables:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed/lib
LIBFFI_CFLAGS="-I/home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed/lib/libffi-3.0.13/include" LIBFFI_LIBS="-lffi -L/home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed/lib"
then ./configure and make. I got these errors:
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/franz/Downloads/glib-2.37.5/gobject' /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror=declaration-after-statement -Werror=missing-prototypes -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=pointer-arith -Werror=init-self -Werror=format-security -Werror=format=2 -Werror=missing-include-dirs -g -O2 -o gobject-query gobject-query.o ./libgobject-2.0.la ../glib/libglib-2.0.la libtool: link: gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror=declaration-after-statement -Werror=missing-prototypes -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=pointer-arith -Werror=init-self -Werror=format-security -Werror=format=2 -Werror=missing-include-dirs -g -O2 -o .libs/gobject-query gobject-query.o ./.libs/libgobject-2.0.so -L/home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed/lib /home/franz/Downloads/glib-2.37.5/glib/.libs/libglib-2.0.so ../glib/.libs/libglib-2.0.so -lpthread -lrt -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/franz/Downloads/glib-2.37.5/installed/lib ./.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_void' ./.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_double' ./.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_prep_cif' ./.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_sint32' ./.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_float' ./.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_uint64' ./.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_sint64' ./.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_pointer' ./.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_uint32' ./.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_call'
then I saw the libraries I wanted to include and setted with LIBFFI_CFLAGS/LIBS in configure are not present in make, so I changed my CC variable to force my compiler to use my libraries:
LIBFFI_CFLAGS="-I/home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed/lib/libffi-3.0.13/include" LIBFFI_LIBS="-lffi -L/home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed/lib" ZLIB_CFLAGS="-I/home/franz/Downloads/zlib-1.2.8/installed/include" ZLIB_LIBS="-L/home/franz/Downloads/zlib-1.2.8/installed/lib" CC="gcc $LIBFFI_CFLAGS $LIBFFI_LIBS" CXX="/usr/bin/g++-4.4 $LIBFFI_CFLAGS $LIBFFI_LIBS" ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/installed
and make
In this way instead of gcc in the make process, we'll get gcc -I... -lffi -L... And this worked so far. But now I get the same error in another location:
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/franz/Downloads/glib-2.37.5/gio' /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -I/home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed/lib/libffi-3.0.13/include -lffi -L/home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed/lib -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror=declaration-after-statement -Werror=missing-prototypes -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=pointer-arith -Werror=init-self -Werror=format-security -Werror=format=2 -Werror=missing-include-dirs -g -O2 -o gio-querymodules gio-querymodules.o ../glib/libglib-2.0.la ../gobject/libgobject-2.0.la ../gmodule/libgmodule-2.0.la libgio-2.0.la libtool: link: gcc -I/home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed/lib/libffi-3.0.13/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror=declaration-after-statement -Werror=missing-prototypes -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=pointer-arith -Werror=init-self -Werror=format-security -Werror=format=2 -Werror=missing-include-dirs -g -O2 -o .libs/gio-querymodules gio-querymodules.o -L/home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed/lib ../glib/.libs/libglib-2.0.so ../gobject/.libs/libgobject-2.0.so ../gmodule/.libs/libgmodule-2.0.so ./.libs/libgio-2.0.so -L/home/franz/Downloads/zlib-1.2.8/installed/lib /home/franz/Downloads/glib-2.37.5/gobject/.libs/libgobject-2.0.so /home/franz/Downloads/glib-2.37.5/gmodule/.libs/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /home/franz/Downloads/glib-2.37.5/glib/.libs/libglib-2.0.so -lpthread -lrt /home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed/lib/../lib/libffi.so -lresolv -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/franz/Downloads/glib-2.37.5/installed/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/franz/Downloads/libffi-3.0.13/installed/lib/../lib ../gobject/.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_void' ../gobject/.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_double' ../gobject/.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_prep_cif' ../gobject/.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_sint32' ../gobject/.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_float' ../gobject/.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_uint64' ../gobject/.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_sint64' ../gobject/.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_pointer' ../gobject/.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_uint32' ../gobject/.libs/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_call'
The problem is that in this case the libraries are present (you can see -lffi -L<ffi_libs_path> but the error look the same as before).
Any idea how to get this work? I repeat I cannot install libraries because I cannot have root access. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
