error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _ Open CV program

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I am learning open CV and for the same i was trying few programs. I am referring to this link. http://docs.opencv.org/modules/contrib/doc/facerec/tutorial/facerec_gender_classification.html

I am using visual studio 10 to run the same, and i think somewhere i have messed up with some configuration. I am facing the same problem in couple of more programs (picked from same source) ,

The error which i get is as follows:-

1>main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "int __cdecl cv::waitKey(int)" (?waitKey@cv@@YAHH@Z) referenced in function __catch$_main$0

1>main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "class cv::Mat __cdecl cv::subspaceReconstruct(class cv::_InputArray const &,class cv::_InputArray const &,class cv::_InputArray const &)" (?subspaceReconstruct@cv@@YA?AVMat@1@ABV_InputArray@1@00@Z) referenced in function __catch$_main$0

..... (more such unresolved external symbol error)

1>main.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual bool __thiscall cv::_InputArray::empty(void)const " (?empty@_InputArray@cv@@UBE_NXZ)

1>c:\users\isenses\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\gender_classification\Debug\gender_classification.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 37 unresolved externals

1>

1>Build FAILED.

1>Time Elapsed 00:00:00.36

========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

My Project Properties are as follows:-

Properties->Configuration Properties ->Debugging->command arguments->C:\Users\isenses\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\gender_classification\csv.txt

Properties->Configuration Properties ->VC++ directories->Include directories->(added C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\lib &
C:\openCV_2.4\opencv\build\x86\vc10\lib)

C/C++->general->additional include directories (added include path of openCV ie:- C:\openCV_2.4\opencv\build

Linker->General--- Enable incremental linking=no

Additional Library directories=C:\Program Files %28x86%29\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\lib

C:\openCV_2.4\opencv\build\x86\vc10

linker->System---SubSystem= /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE

Linker->Input--- additional dependencies= wsock32.lib opencv_contrib2411d.lib

opencv_calib3d2411d.lib

opencv_ml2411d.lib

opencv_objdetect2411d.lib

Thank you.

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opencvlnk2019
m pretty sure i have got all the configurations right probably you're not! Show Include and Libraries Directories from your project properties. – Miki
@Miki Well i did miss the input section in linker. I add the additional Dependencies. But still i get the error--- – Mayank
So it's working now? – Miki
1>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'opencv_contrib2411d.lib' – Mayank
Have you added it to Linker -> Input? – Miki

2 Answers

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Thanks to @miki i was able to build the file successfully. The solution to my problem was:-

  1. adding proper additional Dependencies in properties->linker->input.
  2. Adding libraries path in windows environment variables.
  3. I had not used proper additional dependencies as pointed by @miki and as quoted by him "well you also have to link opencv_coreXXX,opencv_highguiXXX, opencv_imgprocXXX etc... (with trailing "d" if in debug) in your Linker->Input--- additional dependencies"

Thanks again

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I want to add an answer to this because I feel the documentation on the opencv site needs to be updated. I followed the tutorial and could not get the library to link. After many permutations I decided to look at the .lib files. My problem was quite simple. The lib files in the opencv tutorial are not complete. Specifically my lib directory includes three more lib files. I added three extra lib files to visual studio linker and the external symbol problem was solved. I am unsure why this is the case because I was only trying to use functions contained within the core module. Anyway, hopefully this will help someone.

I am using opencv 3 and visual studio 2017.