Caffe: libopencv_highgui.so:undefined reference to `TIFFIsTiled@LIBTIFF_4.0'

[luyifan]

Today I use caffe and use the command make all
And then It have some errors.
The errors are as follow:g++ .build_debug/tools/compute_image_mean.o .build_debug/lib/libcaffe.a -o .build_debug/tools/compute_image_mean.bin -fPIC -DDEBUG -g -O0 -I/root/anaconda/include -I/root/anaconda/include/python2.7 -I/root/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/usr/local/include -I.build_debug/src -I./src -I./include -I/usr/local/cuda/include -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -L/root/anaconda/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/cuda/lib64 -L/usr/local/cuda/lib -lcudart -lcublas -lcurand -lglog -lgflags -lprotobuf -lleveldb -lsnappy -llmdb -lboost_system -lhdf5_hl -lhdf5 -lopencv_core -lopencv_highgui -lopencv_imgproc -lpthread -lboost_thread -lcblas -latlas
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to TIFFIsTiled@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference toTIFFOpen@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to TIFFReadEncodedStrip@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference toTIFFSetField@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to TIFFWriteScanline@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference toTIFFGetField@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to TIFFScanlineSize@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference toTIFFSetWarningHandler@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to TIFFSetErrorHandler@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference toTIFFReadEncodedTile@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to TIFFReadRGBATile@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference toTIFFClose@LIBTIFF_4.0'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to TIFFRGBAImageOK@LIBTIFF_4.0' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference toTIFFReadRGBAStrip@LIBTIFF_4.0'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [.build_debug/tools/compute_image_mean.bin] Error 1

I use the ubuntu 14.04 LTS Desktop
and nvidia qudaro K4000

And I don't know how to solve this problem,
Could someone help me? Thanks a lot !!!

[rndmania]

if you install libopencv using apt, install libtiff4 such as
sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev

[luyifan]

@rndmania thx, It solved my problem and I try another way by install opencv not by apt-get

[mrgloom]

Can you explain the source of this problem? Opencv conflict with TIFF library or something else?

[Lakung]

how did you solve this problem?@luyifan , cause i just met this issue.

[empty16]

@Lakung , here is the solution: http://www.voidcn.com/blog/cfyzcc/article/p-6253725.html

[juiceboxjoe]

conda uninstall libtiff worked for me

[TonyMou]

conda uninstall libtiff worked for me too.

[smallflyingpig]

@juiceboxjoe good idea! it works for me. But why it it the problem of conda?

[abelguima]

I have a solution from here: https://github.com/lagadic/visp/issues/109

These errors may appear after installation of anaconda.

If you follow the default anaconda installation, you can see that anaconda has a set of libraries in ~/anaconda3/lib like libtiff.so, libjpeg.so, libxml2.so ... that are also installed in /usr/lib but with other versions. The result is that the corresponding system libraries in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu may be hidden by files in ~/anaconda3/lib.

The solution I found to be able to build caffe with OpenCV is to remove anaconda3/bin folder from PATH.

< export PATH="/home/user/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"
editing ~/.bashrc and commenting

export PATH="/home/user/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"

Then do a fresh build

at caffe directory

rm -r build
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make all
make install
make runtest

[shizukanaskytree]

conda uninstall libtiff works!

[suiwei]

I solve this porblem by add sudo
sudo su；
make all -j16；
make test -j16；
make runtest -j16；
make pycaffe；

[rockXL]

after you have install anaconda, in your .bashrc you should have added this line:

export PATH="/home/user/anaconda2/bin:$PATH"

before you make -j8 ,you should comment this line first:

export PATH="/home/user/anaconda2/bin:$PATH"

[YogeshShitole]

@abelguima Thanks your solution worked for me...

[TonTonTWMAN]

conda uninstall libtiff works!

[shin1919]

conda uninstall libtiff works for me, too!

[BalajiB197]

conda uninstall libtiff works
but it removes opencv, how to resolve this error.
anybody can help me with this issue?

[wangqiqi]

reinstall opencv can solve the problem in my side.

[derkbreeze]

@BalajiB197
You can remove the
export PATH=/home/lishuai/anaconda3/bin:$PATH and
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/lishuai/anaconda3/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your bashrc file and open another terminal to compile, it should work.

[DNALuo]

rndmania: there is no libtiff4 available in current ubuntu 16.04 only libtiff5.

conda uninstall libtiff does not work for me.

Because in my system Ubuntu16.04, libtiff5 is default. So I justsudo apt-get remove libtiff5-dev
And conda install -c menpo opencv3

[pflarr]

I'm looking at a similar problem, and thought I'd chime in.

There is no libtiff5. libtiff.so.5 is the libtiff 4.X ABI. They had to jump an ABI number because of a mistake in an earlier version.

I'm seeing this exact same problem; Cmake is building against the system libtiff.so.5, but is linking against anaconda's libtiff.so.5. The ABI versions aren't that different, but the symbols in the system version include a suffix of @@LIBTIFF_4.0, and the anaconda version doesn't.

[JakeMalis]

Bump?

[Light--]

@rndmania thx, It solved my problem and I try another way by install opencv not by apt-get

by what?

[Coldmooon]

I solved the problem by manually compiling libtiff and setting CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH, which makes caffe and opencv link to the same libtiff. I think this is a better way without side effects.

The error of undefined reference to TIFFxxxxxx comes from the following fact:

Opencv links to the libtiff found by cmake. By default, cmake only searches on the standard library path, e.g., /usr/local/lib/, by find_package() in /usr/local/share/cmake-xx/Modules/FindTIFF.cmake. If libtiff was not found there, opencv will compile it on the fly from its distribution /path/to/opencv_source_code/3rdparty/libtiff/.

While, caffe links to the libtiff pre-compiled by anaconda, located in $HOME/anaconda3/lib/

So, caffe and opencv link to different versions of libtiff.

solution

The way is to make opencv and caffe link to the same libtiff.

Step 1: manually compile the libtiff

wget http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.10.tar.gz
tar -zxvf tiff-4.0.10.tar.gz && cd tiff-4.0.10
./configure --prefix=/path/to/libtiff/
make
make install (**Note**: no `sudo` since most people have no `root` privilege)

This will install libtiff into /path/to/libtiff/ in your home directory.

Step 2: recompile opencv with the newly installed libtiff

cd /path/to/opencv_source_code/
mkdir release && cd release

cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/path/to/libtiff/ -DBUILD_LIST=core,highgui,improc,python3 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(python -c "import sys; print(sys.prefix)") -DPYTHON3_EXECUTABLE=$(which python) -DPYTHON3_INCLUDE_DIR=$(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_inc; print(get_python_inc())") -DPYTHON3_PACKAGES_PATH=$(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())") .. 
(you can choose other modules) 

make
make install (**Note**: no `sudo`)

The critical in step 2 is that set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to force cmake to follow the newly installed libtiff.
PYTHON3_EXECUTABLE, PYTHON3_INCLUDE_DIR, and PYTHON3_PACKAGES_PATH point to the anaconda python.
I only choose four modules of opencv, core,highgui,improc,python3, by setting BUILD_LIST, which is enough for caffe.

Step 3: recompile caffe with the newly installed libtiff

cd /path/to/caffe
vim Makefile.config

In Makefile.config, modify:

INCLUDE_DIRS := /path/to/libtiff/include  $(PYTHON_INCLUDE) /usr/local/include
LIBRARY_DIRS := /path/to/libtiff/lib  $(PYTHON_LIB) /usr/local/lib /usr/lib

This will force caffe to use the newly installed libtiff. Then,

make all

[isekeylabSunQixiang]

conda install --channel https://conda.anaconda.org/menpo opencv3
works for me

[serend1p1ty]

@DNALuo

sudo apt-get remove libtiff5-dev (This step is very important)
conda install -c menpo opencv3
```` 
works for me
For ubuntu 16.04 users, libtiff4 is unavailable and libtiff5 is the default.
You can use the following commands to validate

sudo updatedb
locate libtiff
```

[Swjtu-only]

conda uninstall libtiff worked for me too.
wow,the line solve my many questions!!!

[jingzhao3200]

rndmania: there is no libtiff4 available in current ubuntu 16.04 only libtiff5.

conda uninstall libtiff does not work for me.

Because in my system Ubuntu16.04, libtiff5 is default. So I justsudo apt-get remove libtiff5-dev
And conda install -c menpo opencv3

I noticed that there are some conflict with conda
so
sudo apt-get remove libtiff5-dev
works for me