Issues about installing PCL in my computer

Question

When I try to install python-pcl(PCL is the point cloud library for presentation like laser radar data. I followed the instruction on https://github.com/strawlab/python-pcl ,and I have already copied travis/pcl-2d-1.8.pc file to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig folder) in my computer. I typed AppledeMacBook-Pro-3:python-pcl-0.3.0rc1 apple$ python setup.py install in my terminal.Then I encountered a problem below:

running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
writing requirements to python_pcl.egg-info/requires.txt
writing python_pcl.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to python_pcl.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to python_pcl.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
reading manifest file 'python_pcl.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'python_pcl.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
installing library code to build/bdist.macosx-10.6-x86_64/egg
running install_lib
running build_py
running build_ext
skipping 'pcl/_pcl_180.cpp' Cython extension (up-to-date)
building 'pcl._pcl' extension
/usr/bin/clang -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -Wunreachable-code -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/Users/apple/miniconda3/include -I/Users/apple/miniconda3/include -DEIGEN_YES_I_KNOW_SPARSE_MODULE_IS_NOT_STABLE_YET=1 -I/Users/apple/miniconda3/pkgs/python-3.5.4-h8f450c2_22/lib/python3.5/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/usr/local/include/pcl-1.8 -I/usr/local/Cellar/openni/1.5.7.10/include/ni -I/usr/local/include/pcl-1.8 -I/usr/local/Cellar/flann/1.9.1_6/include -I/usr/local/include/pcl-1.8 -I/opt/local/include/eigen3 -I/usr/include/ni -I/usr/include/vtk-5.8 -I/usr/local/include/vtk-8.0 -I/usr/local/Cellar/vtk/8.0.1/include -I/Users/apple/miniconda3/pkgs/python-3.5.4-h8f450c2_22/include/python3.5m -c pcl/_pcl_180.cpp -o build/temp.macosx-10.6-x86_64-3.5/pcl/_pcl_180.o
warning: include path for stdlibc++ headers not found; pass '-std=libc++' on the
      command line to use the libc++ standard library instead
      [-Wstdlibcxx-not-found]
pcl/_pcl_180.cpp:447:10: fatal error: 'vector' file not found
#include <vector>
         ^~~~~~~~

Somebody says it has something to do with my Cython version. But I have already switched Cython to version 0.25.2, still not working. Does anyone have the same problem? Many thanks. By the way, my python version is 3.5.4 and my Mac Version is macOS Mojave 10.14.1

Answer 1

This is a special issue with current MacOS-installations. You could tweak setup.py and add, as the warning suggest, -std=libc++ to the compile-options, i.e.

from distutils.core import setup
from Cython.Build import cythonize

...  some stuff

#passing `-stdlib=libc++` to compiler and linker:
ext_modules = [Extension(...,
                         language='c++',
                         extra_compile_args=["-stdlib=libc++"], # + anything else you need
                         extra_link_args= ["-stdlib=libc++"] # + anything else you need]

... some more stuff

I have also added -stdlib=libc++ to the linker options, because it will be probably the next problem you will run into.

More background: In the MacOS world, for long time, there where two different implementations of c++'s standard library: -libstdc++ associated with gcc and libc++ associated with clang. At the beginning-libstdc++ was also used per default with clang-compiler. However, this is no longer the case - it is not even installed now and that is the reason why the headers cannot be found. I'm not sure why your clang-version doesn't take libc++ per default - so you have to pass it manually to compiler/linker.