Compile with hdf5 support on ubuntu

(1) fatal error: hdf5.h: No such file or directory

Solution:

Search the header file by 

find /usr -iname "*hdf5.h*"
/usr/include/hdf5/serial/hdf5.h

Then,

export CPATH="/usr/include/hdf5/serial/"

(2) /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lhdf5

 

Solution:

cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

ln -s libhdf5_serial.so libhdf5.so

Reference:

https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/issues/2347

https://github.com/NVIDIA/DIGITS/issues/156