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Compiling COLMAP on Leonhard

This is a short tutorial for compiling COLMAP on Leonhard with GCC 6.3.0. Qt installation is quite large so COLMAP cannot be compiled in the home directories.

Modules and Paths

Create a file called colmap_startup.sh in your home directory containing the following:

export DATA=/cluster/project/infk/cvg/$USER

Intel for display, NVIDIA for computing

This guide will show you how to use Intel graphics for rendering display and NVIDIA graphics for CUDA computing on Ubuntu 18.04 / 20.04 desktop.

I made this work on an ordinary gaming PC with two graphics devices, an Intel UHD Graphics 630 plus an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Both of them can be shown via lspci | grep VGA.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 3e92
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] (rev a1)

1. Clone your fork:

git clone [email protected]:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream

	// A simple quickref for Eigen. Add anything that's missing.
	// Main author: Keir Mierle

	#include <Eigen/Dense>

	Matrix<double, 3, 3> A; // Fixed rows and cols. Same as Matrix3d.
	Matrix<double, 3, Dynamic> B; // Fixed rows, dynamic cols.
	Matrix<double, Dynamic, Dynamic> C; // Full dynamic. Same as MatrixXd.
	Matrix<double, 3, 3, RowMajor> E; // Row major; default is column-major.
	Matrix3f P, Q, R; // 3x3 float matrix.