Point Cloud Library with Visual Studio 2017

Question

I\'m having trouble using Point Cloud Library with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.

I have installed [PCL-1.8.1-AllInOne-msvc2017-win64.exe] and I\'ve followed the steps me

Answer 1

Installing pcl is tough because there are dozens of dependencies used along with pcl software. But with with vcpkg,a command line package manager, the installation becomes just like a one liner command.

Use Microsoft vcpkg to build a static or dynamic library for your project automatically. All the dependencies like boost,tiff,openssl,flann,szip,etc will be downloaded and installed by itself. After installing vcpkg type the following on Powershell.

.\vcpkg install pcl:x64-windows-static

Answer 2

the previous answer use vcpkg is good,but is better to use:

.\vcpkg install pcl:x64-windows

It can let you have fewer problems.

Answer 3

The link you referenced is 3-4 years old. At the time, any binary build of PCL for Visual Studio 2012 or later was not provided, and thus. PCL needed to be built with target VS. And every include/library directory of PCL and any related library have to be manually added to setup the IDE. Since PCL is a large-scale collection of libraries, this made it difficult for its users to setup VS.

Now early 2018, binary builds of PCL for VS 2015/2017 and more automatic way to setup VS (e.g., adding library/include directories) using CMake are provided. Thus, installing PCL and creating a VS project using PCL does not take more than 10 minutes. I think you'd better follow the recommended way rather than setting VS by yourself.

Answer 4

A small note for anyone who has issues with the install listed above, occasionally an install will get corrupted and not work. I got:

LINK : fatal error LNK1201

on a build, and the solution for that is find the downloaded item. This will be located in the vcpkg/downloads/ directory. Delete the item that was having issues and try the install again.