Setup PCL

The Point Cloud Library (PCL) is a standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing.

Compiling From Source

Dependencies

Boost

Minimum version:

V1.40 (without OpenNI)

V1.47 (with OpenNI)

Mandatory:

pcl_*
Eigen

Minimum version: 3.0

Mandatory: pcl_*
FLANN

Minimum version: 1.7.1

Mandatory: pcl_*
VTK

Minimum version: 5.6

Mandatory: pcl_visualization
Qhull (optional)

Minimum version: 2011.1

Mandatory: pcl_surface
OpenNI (optional)

Minimum version: 1.3

Mandatory: pcl_io
CUDA (optional)

Minimum version: 4.0

Mandatory: pcl_*

Compiling

Go to Github and download the version number of your choice. (here we use v1.7.2 as an example)

 tar -zxvf pcl-pcl-1.7.2.tar.gz
 cd pcl-pcl-1.7.2
 mkdir build
 cd build
 cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
 make
 sudo make install

Reference

https://pcl-tutorials.readthedocs.io/en/latest/compiling_pcl_posix.html#compiling-pcl-posix