Compiling PCL 1.7 on Ubuntu 16.04 , errors in CMake generated Makefile

Question

I\'m trying to get PCL 1.7 (The point cloud library, not the other pcl) working on Ubuntu 16.04. I eventually hope to use for C++ stuff, but right now I\'m just trying to get th

Answer 1

There seems to be an issue with the installation with vtk6

described here : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819741

quick and dirty fix: make a symbolic link libproj.so in the requested directory:

sudo ln -s  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libproj.so. /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libproj.so