ubuntu_pcl_build.md

Building SurfelWarp on Ubuntu 16.04 with PCL 1.8

You need a nvidia GPU with CUDA 9 installed. Note that CUDA 10 is not compatible with PCL 1.8 and doesn' work. If you want to build with CUDA 10, please follow this document.

To choose the CUDA architecture compatible with your CUDA version and graphics card, thereby also reducing compile time, pass -DCUDA_ARCH=<arg> to CMake, where <arg> is a two-digit compile compatibility version, e.g. "61", or choose this number from the corresponding drop-down in cmake-gui.

In addition to CUDA , the code depends on PCL, OpenCV and GLFW. On Ubuntu, you can run the following command to install these dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libpcl-dev libopencv-dev libglfw3 libglfw3-dev

Now you are ready to build (remember to add cmake arguments as necessary):

git clone https://github.com/weigao95/surfelwarp
cd surfelwarp
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

If the build is successful, you might continue with the run instruction.