Opencv static library could not be linked in eclipse (-ldl is added!) - c++

Question

I would like to link opencv statically in my c++ program so user does not have to download opencv themselves.
I have tried everything on internet to try to use opencv static library in my c++ program but it is not working.
I have compiled the opencv static library with -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF to generate opencv lib files in /usr/local/lib. All of the files has .a extension. I moved these files to a folder in my program and linked it with eclipse with ("${workspace_loc:/${ProjName}/opencv lib}")
I have included -ljpeg -lpng -ltiff -lzlib -lpthread -lrt -ldl -lz -lm
I have put -static flag
I tried to link /usr/local/include/opencv and /usr/local/bin instead
The error message shown a bunch of code like
...
sum.cpp:(.text._ZN2cv3sumERKNS_11_InputArrayE+0xb19): undefined reference to `ippicviSum_16s_C4R'
...
and
/home/vivian/cuda-workspace/AutoVideoAnalyze_v4/opencv lib/libdl.a(dlopen.o): In function dlopen':
(.text+0x5): undefined reference to__dlopen'
/home/vivian/cuda-workspace/AutoVideoAnalyze_v4/opencv lib/libdl.a(dlclose.o): In function dlclose':
(.text+0x1): undefined reference to__dlclose'
/home/vivian/cuda-workspace/AutoVideoAnalyze_v4/opencv lib/libdl.a(dlsym.o): In function dlsym':
(.text+0x5): undefined reference to__dlsym'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [AutoVideoAnalyze_v4] Error 1
I have tried many combination and different ways on google but nothing works. Have anyone actually linked opencv statically on their c++ program? Can you share your work please?

Answer 1

Finally linked opencv statically i eclipse! I used Opencv Cuda, IPP, ffmpeg and many other libraries so there are more libraries to include!
gcc c++ linker: Libraries(-l):
opencv_cudabgsegm, opencv_cudaobjdetect ,opencv_cudastereo, opencv_stitching, opencv_cudafeatures2d, opencv_superres, opencv_cudacodec, opencv_videostab, opencv_cudaoptflow, opencv_cudalegacy, opencv_cudawarping, opencv_aruco, opencv_bgsegm, opencv_bioinspired, opencv_ccalib, opencv_cvv, opencv_dnn_objdetect, opencv_dpm, opencv_face, opencv_photo, opencv_cudaimgproc, opencv_cudafilters, opencv_freetype, opencv_fuzzy, opencv_hdf, opencv_hfs, opencv_img_hash, opencv_line_descriptor, opencv_optflow, opencv_reg, opencv_rgbd, opencv_saliency, opencv_stereo, opencv_structured_light, opencv_phase_unwrapping, opencv_surface_matching, opencv_tracking, opencv_datasets, opencv_text, opencv_dnn, opencv_plot, opencv_xfeatures2d, opencv_shape, opencv_video, opencv_ml, opencv_cudaarithm, opencv_ximgproc, opencv_calib3d, opencv_features2d, opencv_highgui, opencv_videoio, opencv_flann, opencv_xobjdetect, opencv_imgcodecs, opencv_objdetect, opencv_xphoto, opencv_imgproc, opencv_core, opencv_cudev, libprotobuf, GLU, GL, gstpbutils-1.0, gstriff-1.0, gstapp-1.0, gstvideo-1.0, gstbase-1.0, gstreamer-1.0, gobject-2.0, glib-2.0, avcodec, avformat, swscale, avutil, avfilter, swresample, avresample, avdevice, postproc, m, z, x264, lzma, rt, dc1394, tbb, gphoto2_port, gphoto2, xine, jpeg, webp, png, tiff, jasper, Imath, hdf5, lept, sz, IlmImf, cudart, nppc, nppial, nppicc, nppicom, nppidei, nppif, nppig, nppim, nppist, nppisu, nppitc, npps, cublas, cufft, ippiw, ippicv, ittnotify, dl, pthread
Library search path (-L):
/usr/include, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/, /usr/local/share/OpenCV/3rdparty/lib, /usr/local/cuda-9.2/lib64, /usr/local/lib
If you want to know what library do you need to include, you can look at the General configuration that looks like the script below (*appear when you are building opencv) and include every library in the script into the program that you want to link opencv statically.
General configuration for OpenCV 3.4.2 =====================================
-- Version control: 3.4.2
--
-- Extra modules:
-- Location (extra): /home/vivian/Downloads/opencv_contrib/modules
-- Version control (extra): 3.4.2
--
-- Platform:
-- Timestamp: 2019-01-17T01:23:08Z
-- Host: Linux 4.15.0-43-generic x86_64
-- CMake: 3.10.2
-- CMake generator: Unix Makefiles
-- CMake build tool: /usr/bin/make
-- Configuration: RELEASE
--
-- CPU/HW features:
-- Baseline: SSE SSE2 SSE3
-- requested: SSE3
-- Dispatched code generation: SSE4_1 SSE4_2 FP16 AVX AVX2 AVX512_SKX
-- requested: SSE4_1 SSE4_2 AVX FP16 AVX2 AVX512_SKX
-- SSE4_1 (3 files): + SSSE3 SSE4_1
-- SSE4_2 (1 files): + SSSE3 SSE4_1 POPCNT SSE4_2
-- FP16 (2 files): + SSSE3 SSE4_1 POPCNT SSE4_2 FP16 AVX
-- AVX (5 files): + SSSE3 SSE4_1 POPCNT SSE4_2 AVX
-- AVX2 (9 files): + SSSE3 SSE4_1 POPCNT SSE4_2 FP16 FMA3 AVX AVX2
-- AVX512_SKX (1 files): + SSSE3 SSE4_1 POPCNT SSE4_2 FP16 FMA3 AVX AVX2 AVX_512F AVX512_SKX
--
-- C/C++:
-- Built as dynamic libs?: NO
-- C++11: YES
-- C++ Compiler: /usr/bin/c++ (ver 7.3.0)
-- C++ flags (Release): -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address -Werror=sequence-point -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-promo -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -Wsuggest-override -Wno-narrowing -Wno-delete-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-comment -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wno-long-long -pthread -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -msse -msse2 -msse3 -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -O3 -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG
-- C++ flags (Debug): -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address -Werror=sequence-point -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-promo -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -Wsuggest-override -Wno-narrowing -Wno-delete-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-comment -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wno-long-long -pthread -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -msse -msse2 -msse3 -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -g -O0 -DDEBUG -D_DEBUG
-- C Compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- C flags (Release): -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address -Werror=sequence-point -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -Wno-narrowing -Wno-comment -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wno-long-long -pthread -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -msse -msse2 -msse3 -fvisibility=hidden -O3 -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG
-- C flags (Debug): -fsigned-char -W -Wall -Werror=return-type -Werror=non-virtual-dtor -Werror=address -Werror=sequence-point -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Winit-self -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -Wno-narrowing -Wno-comment -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wno-long-long -pthread -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -msse -msse2 -msse3 -fvisibility=hidden -g -O0 -DDEBUG -D_DEBUG
-- Linker flags (Release):
-- Linker flags (Debug):
-- ccache: NO
-- Precompiled headers: NO
-- Extra dependencies: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtbb.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcuda.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvcuvid.so Qt5::Test Qt5::Concurrent Qt5::OpenGL /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebp.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjasper.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libImath.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libIlmImf.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libIex.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libHalf.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libIlmThread.so gstbase-1.0 gstreamer-1.0 gobject-2.0 glib-2.0 gstvideo-1.0 gstapp-1.0 gstriff-1.0 gstpbutils-1.0 dc1394 xine avformat z avcodec lzma swresample swscale avutil avresample gphoto2 gphoto2_port Qt5::Core Qt5::Gui Qt5::Widgets freetype harfbuzz /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/libhdf5.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsz.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so tesseract lept dl m pthread rt /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLU.so cudart nppc nppial nppicc nppicom nppidei nppif nppig nppim nppist nppisu nppitc npps cublas cufft -L/usr/local/cuda-9.2/lib64
-- 3rdparty dependencies: ittnotify libprotobuf ippiw ippicv
--
-- OpenCV modules:
-- To be built: aruco bgsegm bioinspired calib3d ccalib core cudaarithm cudabgsegm cudacodec cudafeatures2d cudafilters cudaimgproc cudalegacy cudaobjdetect cudaoptflow cudastereo cudawarping cudev cvv datasets dnn dnn_objdetect dpm face features2d flann freetype fuzzy hdf hfs highgui img_hash imgcodecs imgproc java java_bindings_generator line_descriptor ml objdetect optflow phase_unwrapping photo plot python2 python3 python_bindings_generator reg rgbd saliency shape stereo stitching structured_light superres surface_matching text tracking ts video videoio videostab xfeatures2d ximgproc xobjdetect xphoto
-- Disabled: js world
-- Disabled by dependency: -
-- Unavailable: cnn_3dobj matlab ovis sfm viz
-- Applications: tests perf_tests apps
-- Documentation: NO
-- Non-free algorithms: NO
--
-- GUI:
-- QT: YES (ver 5.9.5)
-- QT OpenGL support: YES (Qt5::OpenGL 5.9.5)
-- GTK+: NO
-- OpenGL support: YES (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLU.so)
-- VTK support: NO
--
-- Media I/O:
-- ZLib: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so (ver 1.2.11)
-- JPEG: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so (ver 80)
-- WEBP: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebp.so (ver encoder: 0x020e)
-- PNG: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng.so (ver 1.6.34)
-- TIFF: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so (ver 42 / 4.0.9)
-- JPEG 2000: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjasper.so (ver 1.900.1)
-- OpenEXR: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libImath.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libIlmImf.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libIex.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libHalf.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libIlmThread.so (ver 2.2.0)
-- HDR: YES
-- SUNRASTER: YES
-- PXM: YES
--
-- Video I/O:
-- DC1394: YES (ver 2.2.5)
-- FFMPEG: YES
-- avcodec: YES (ver 58.25.100)
-- avformat: YES (ver 58.17.103)
-- avutil: YES (ver 56.19.100)
-- swscale: YES (ver 5.2.100)
-- avresample: YES (ver 3.7.0)
-- GStreamer:
-- base: YES (ver 1.14.1)
-- video: YES (ver 1.14.1)
-- app: YES (ver 1.14.1)
-- riff: YES (ver 1.14.1)
-- pbutils: YES (ver 1.14.1)
-- libv4l/libv4l2: NO
-- v4l/v4l2: linux/videodev2.h
-- Xine: YES (ver 1.2.8)
-- gPhoto2: YES
--
-- Parallel framework: TBB (ver 2017.0 interface 9107)
--
-- Trace: YES (with Intel ITT)
--
-- Other third-party libraries:
-- Intel IPP: 2017.0.3 [2017.0.3]
-- at: /home/vivian/Downloads/opencv/build/3rdparty/ippicv/ippicv_lnx
-- Intel IPP IW: sources (2017.0.3)
-- at: /home/vivian/Downloads/opencv/build/3rdparty/ippicv/ippiw_lnx
-- Lapack: NO
-- Eigen: YES (ver 3.3.4)
-- Custom HAL: NO
-- Protobuf: build (3.5.1)
--
-- NVIDIA CUDA: YES (ver 9.2, CUFFT CUBLAS NVCUVID FAST_MATH)
-- NVIDIA GPU arch: 61
-- NVIDIA PTX archs:
--
-- OpenCL: YES (no extra features)
-- Include path: /home/vivian/Downloads/opencv/3rdparty/include/opencl/1.2
-- Link libraries: Dynamic load
--
-- Python 2:
-- Interpreter: /usr/bin/python2.7 (ver 2.7.15)
-- Libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so (ver 2.7.15rc1)
-- numpy: /home/vivian/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/include (ver 1.15.2)
-- packages path: lib/python2.7/dist-packages
--
-- Python 3:
-- Interpreter: /usr/bin/python3 (ver 3.6.7)
-- Libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.6m.so (ver 3.6.7)
-- numpy: /home/vivian/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/core/include (ver 1.15.4)
-- packages path: lib/python3.6/dist-packages
--
-- Python (for build): /usr/bin/python2.7
--
-- Java:
-- ant: /usr/bin/ant (ver 1.10.3)
-- JNI: /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/include /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/include/linux /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/include
-- Java wrappers: YES
-- Java tests: YES
--
-- Matlab: NO
--
-- Install to: /usr/local