Cannot compile EMD makefile on Google Colab about latent_3d_points

[anguyen216]

So I figured out a solution for this. At the time of writing this, Google Colab default CUDA version is 10.1 and python is 3.7; I downgrade the tensorflow on Colab to 1.15.2 so it's more compatible with CUDA 10.1 and the code written in this repo using the code below

%tensorflow_version 1.x
import sys
import tensorflow
print(tensorflow.__version__)

Also need to install gcc/g++ before I can run makefile

!apt-get install -qq gcc-5 g++-5 -y
!ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-5 
!ln -s /usr/bin/g++-5 

!sudo apt-get update
!sudo apt-get upgrade

The first three lines of the makefile can be edit as below (this is the path/directory on Google Colab; not sure if you can manually change this or that if you want to/should do that)

nvcc = /usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc
cudalib =  /usr/local/cuda/lib64
tensorflow = /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/include

then after mounting the Google Drive and change directory to makefile and cpp files location, I run make as below

%cd /content/drive/My\ Drive/path/to/makefile/
!make

and voila, it worked like a charm. Leave this here in case someone interested in doing the same thing as I'm doing right now in the future and got stuck :)