Static linking error building BVLC/Caffe on FreeBSD

[PeterSprague]

Attempting to build BVLC/Caffe computer vision machine learning framework (https://github.com/BVLC/caffe)

• Installed all the dependencies including GCC 4.9.4
  
• Created Makefile.config
• Modified the Makefile by substituting FreeBSD for Linux in "Configure build" section (lines #242+), revised (#257) - CXX ?= /usr/local/bin/g++

$ gmake
Makefile:314: *** Cannot static link with the c++ compiler.  Stop.

Has anyone gotten Caffe built in FreeBSD? What steps are needed to successfully build?

 

[quanquan]

i have compile caffe successfuly with ports,by when run this, error with protobuf and caffe.proto

 

[leebrown66]

PeterSprague: Why not use ports or packages for graphics/caffe? They are already patched for FreeBSD.

If, for some reason you really need to compile it yourself, use the port as a guideline as to the modifications required to build under FreeBSD.

 

[quanquan]

PeterSprague: Why not use ports or packages for graphics/caffe? They are already patched for FreeBSD.

If, for some reason you really need to compile it yourself, use the port as a guideline as to the modifications required to build under FreeBSD.

pkg and ports has been used, they both can install caffe, but when run caffe,get an error about libprotobuf.

[libprotobuf error google/protobuf/descriptor_database.cc:58] file already exists in dadabase: caffe.proto

google tell me that, both opencv and caffeuse libprotobuf with caffe.proto,i should compile caffe with static libprotobuf.a，i have changed the ports comfig,but failed caffe

 

[leebrown66]

Try addressing this with the port maintainer. I see it was updated only 2 weeks ago. Automated testing ensures it compiles, but a runtime failure is sure to fall through the cracks.

 

[First_Law_of_Unix]

"caffe" is removed from ports. Anyone was still able to get it to work on FreeBSD from github source?