As you may know, many things changed in OpenCV 3 (in comparision to the openCV2 or the old first version).
In the old days, to train SVM one would use:
I was porting my code from OpenCV 2.4.9 to 3.0.0-rc1 and had the same issue. Unfortunately the API has changes since the answer was posted, so I would like to update it accordingly:
Ptr svm = ml::SVM::create();
svm->setType(ml::SVM::C_SVC);
svm->setKernel(ml::SVM::POLY);
svm->setGamma(3);
Mat trainData; // one row per feature
Mat labels;
Ptr tData = ml::TrainData::create(trainData, ml::SampleTypes::ROW_SAMPLE, labels);
svm->train(tData);
// ...
Mat query; // input, 1channel, 1 row (apply reshape(1,1) if nessecary)
Mat res; // output
svm->predict(query, res);