Colmap compile failure

[jiadingfang]

Describe the bug
I followed the instructions on https://colmap.github.io/install.html#linux. Everything goes fine until the 'Configure and compile COLMAP' step where I first use CC=/usr/bin/gcc-7 CXX=/usr/bin/g++-7 cmake .. and then do make -j. However the following error occurs,

-- Found required Ceres dependency: Eigen version 3.3.7 in /usr/include/eigen3
-- Found required Ceres dependency: glog
-- Found required Ceres dependency: gflags
-- Found Ceres version: 2.0.0 installed in: /usr/local with components: [EigenSparse, SparseLinearAlgebraLibrary, LAPACK, SuiteSparse, CXSparse, SchurSpecializations, Multithreading]
-- Found Boost: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Boost-1.71.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found version "1.71.0") found components: program_options filesystem graph system unit_test_framework
-- Found Eigen
-- Includes : /usr/include/eigen3
-- Found FreeImage
-- Includes : /usr/include
-- Libraries : /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so
-- Found Glog
-- Includes : /usr/include
-- Libraries : /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglog.so
-- Found Glew
-- Includes : /usr/include
-- Libraries : /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLEW.so
-- Using header-only CGAL
-- Targetting Unix Makefiles
-- Using /usr/bin/g++-7 compiler.
-- Found Boost: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Boost-1.71.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found suitable version "1.71.0", minimum required is "1.48")
-- Boost include dirs: /usr/include
-- Boost libraries:
-- Using gcc version 4 or later. Adding -frounding-math
-- Found Qt
-- Module : /home/kudo/anaconda3/lib/cmake/Qt5Core
-- Module : /home/kudo/anaconda3/lib/cmake/Qt5OpenGL
-- Module : /home/kudo/anaconda3/lib/cmake/Qt5Widgets
-- Found CGAL
-- Includes : /usr/include
-- Libraries : CGAL
-- Build type not specified, using Release
-- Enabling SIMD support
-- Enabling OpenMP support
-- Disabling interprocedural optimization
-- Automatic GPU detection failed. Building for common architectures.
-- Autodetected CUDA architecture(s): 3.5;5.0;3.0;5.2;6.0;6.1;7.0;7.5;7.5+PTX
-- Enabling CUDA support (version: 10.1, archs: sm_35 sm_50 sm_30 sm_52 sm_60 sm_61 sm_70 sm_75 compute_75)
-- Enabling OpenGL support
-- Disabling profiling support
-- Enabling CGAL support
-- Configuring done
CMake Warning at cmake/CMakeHelper.cmake:150 (add_executable):
Cannot generate a safe runtime search path for target colmap_exe because
files in some directories may conflict with libraries in implicit
directories:

runtime library [libmpfr.so.6] in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu may be hidden by files in:
  /home/kudo/anaconda3/lib
runtime library [libgmp.so.10] in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu may be hidden by files in:
  /home/kudo/anaconda3/lib

Some of these libraries may not be found correctly.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
src/exe/CMakeLists.txt:38 (COLMAP_ADD_EXECUTABLE)

-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/kudo/devs/colmap/build
[ 2%] Built target sqlite3
[ 4%] Built target lsd
[ 4%] Built target flann
[ 6%] Built target poisson_recon
[ 20%] Built target vlfeat
[ 42%] Built target graclus
[ 42%] Linking CXX static library libsift_gpu.a
[ 42%] Linking CXX static library libpba.a
[ 46%] Built target pba
[ 52%] Built target sift_gpu
[ 96%] Built target colmap
[ 98%] Linking CXX static library libcolmap_cuda.a
[100%] Built target colmap_cuda
[100%] Linking CXX executable colmap
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFTileRowSize@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFReadDirectory@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFFieldTag@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFCurrentDirectory@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFIsTiled@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFIsByteSwapped@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFDefaultStripSize@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFComputeStrip@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFReadTile@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFWriteScanline@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFGetField@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFScanlineSize@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFFieldWithTag@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFTileSize@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFWriteDirectory@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFFieldName@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFFieldReadCount@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFGetTagListEntry@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFClose@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFClientOpen@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFSetTagExtender@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFGetTagListCount@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFGetFieldDefaulted@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFSwabArrayOfLong@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFFieldPassCount@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFSetSubDirectory@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFStripSize@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFFieldDataType@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to _TIFFDataSize@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFReadRGBAImage@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFReadEncodedStrip@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFSetField@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFMergeFieldInfo@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFDataWidth@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFSetDirectory@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreeimage.so: undefined reference to TIFFReadEXIFDirectory@LIBTIFF_4.0'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [src/exe/CMakeFiles/colmap_exe.dir/build.make:131: src/exe/colmap] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:874: src/exe/CMakeFiles/colmap_exe.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:130: all] Error 2

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
• CUDA: 10.0
• gcc 7, g++ 7

[jiadingfang]

problem solved, see #188 (comment)

[jiadingfang]

After using the conda uninstalling libtiff suggestion, the compile can go through. But the colmap gui still cannot work and always shows a black screen and showing error messages in the terminal as

QOpenGLWidget: Failed to create context
QOpenGLWidget: Failed to create context
qt.qpa.backingstore: composeAndFlush: QOpenGLContext creation failed
qt.qpa.backingstore: composeAndFlush: makeCurrent() failed

[jiadingfang]

install the correct Nvidia driver and restart should work.