unable to locate HDF5 header file at hdf5.h

[xpchen0]

Hello:
I am using torch to run nerual talk2 , but when I run the eval.lua I got this error :

/home/dmt/torch/install/share/lua/5.1/trepl/init.lua:384: /home/dmt/torch/install/share/lua/5.1/trepl/init.lua:384: /home/dmt/torch/install/share/lua/5.1/hdf5/ffi.lua:42: Error: unable to locate HDF5 header file at hdf5.h
stack traceback:
    [C]: in function 'error'
    /home/dmt/torch/install/share/lua/5.1/trepl/init.lua:384: in function 'require'
    eval.lua:8: in main chunk
    [C]: in function 'dofile'
    .../dmt/torch/install/lib/luarocks/rocks/trepl/scm-1/bin/th:145: in main chunk
    [C]: at 0x00406670

I am using Ubuntu 14 and I have done follows as https://github.com/deepmind/torch-hdf5/blob/master/doc/usage.md

Ubuntu >= 13.04
sudo apt-get install libhdf5-serial-dev hdf5-tools
git clone [email protected]:deepmind/torch-hdf5.git
cd torch-hdf5
luarocks make hdf5-0-0.rockspec LIBHDF5_LIBDIR="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/"

I don't know what is the problem .

[billzorn]

I also have this problem trying to run on Ubuntu 14.04. After examining the code that loads the header in luasrc/ffi.lua, I observed that the generated config.lua file always has an empty string for the value of _config.HDF5_INCLUDE_PATH. The loader sees this, appends the header name, tries to look for hdf5.h in the current directory or something like that, and fails.

I was able to fix this on my system by manually adding the option -DHDF5_INCLUDE_DIR="/usr/include/" in the rockspec: I changed the cmake command from

cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$(LUA_BINDIR)/.." -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$(PREFIX)";

to

cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$(LUA_BINDIR)/.." -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$(PREFIX)" -DHDF5_INCLUDE_DIR="/usr/include/";

I'm not sure if this is actually the right thing to do, or if there's a better way to pass that path along through CMake. I'm no CMake expert, and I have no idea where it's getting the library path from. The >= 13.04 documentation seems to be outdated: specifying that option doesn't do anything that I was able to observe.

[ghost]

A quick fix on my Mac 10.11.6 is to go to
~/torch/install/share/lua/5.1/hdf5/config.lua
and set
hdf5._config.HDF5_INCLUDE_PATH = "/usr/local/include/",

hdf5._config = {
HDF5_INCLUDE_PATH = "/usr/local/include/",
HDF5_LIBRARIES = "/usr/local/lib/libhdf5_cpp.dylib;/usr/local/lib/libhdf5.dylib;/usr/local/lib/libsz.dylib;/usr/lib/libz.dylib;/usr/lib/libdl.dylib;/usr/lib/libm.dylib"
}

[anthonyyuan]

/Users/anthonyyuan/torch/install/bin/luajit: ...s/anthonyyuan/torch/install/share/lua/5.1/trepl/init.lua:384: ...s/anthonyyuan/torch/install/share/lua/5.1/trepl/init.lua:384: /Users/anthonyyuan/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/hdf5/ffi.lua:42: Error: unable to locate HDF5 header file at hdf5.h
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'error'
...s/anthonyyuan/torch/install/share/lua/5.1/trepl/init.lua:384: in function 'require'
eval.lua:8: in main chunk
[C]: in function 'dofile'
...yuan/torch/install/lib/luarocks/rocks/trepl/scm-1/bin/th:145: in main chunk
[C]: at 0x0109168bc0

[anthonyyuan]

I use mac ! can u help me

[hassanshallal]

Hey folks, I was able to solve most of the issues of the hdf5 library by using the following config.lua, just replace yourname:

hdf5._config = {
HDF5_INCLUDE_PATH = "/Users/yourname/anaconda/pkgs/hdf5-1.8.17-1/include",
HDF5_LIBRARIES = "/Users/yourname/anaconda/pkgs/hdf5-1.8.17-1/lib/libhdf5.dylib;/usr/lib/libpthread.dylib;/usr/lib/libz.dylib;/usr/lib/libdl.dylib;/usr/lib/libm.dylib"
}

It turned out that, on my mac Sierra system and anaconda with python2.7 and 3.5 support, all I needed to get the pretty robust hdf5 package up and running is to refer to another version adopted by my anaconda installation. This way, I can, and hopefully you also can, move on...

Thanks a lot for the feedback, the feedback on the issue was instrumental to allow me to fix, or probably to get around, the issue on my own system.

[MarcoForte]

On Ubuntu I changed the line in config.lua to
HDF5_INCLUDE_PATH = "/usr/include/hdf5/serial/",

[Delasa]

I was playing with this for a few hours in mac os and the easiest solution that I found is to download the hdf5 package (I put it in the home directory) from anaconda (https://anaconda.org/anaconda/hdf5/files?version=1.8.17) and then changing the config.lua to point to the include and lib within the anaconda package:

hdf5._config = {
HDF5_INCLUDE_PATH = "/Users/Delasa/hdf5-1.8.17-2/include",
HDF5_LIBRARIES = "/Users/Delasa/hdf5-1.8.17-2/lib/libhdf5.dylib;/usr/lib/libpthread.dylib;/usr/lib/libz.dylib;/usr/lib/libdl.dylib;/usr/lib/libm.dylib"
}

[YuanEZhou]

I encountered the same problem and fixed it as follow:
Firstly, I try to find the hdf5.h header file at terminal. (find / -name 'hdf5.h')
Secondly, I open ~/torch/install/share/lua/5.1/hdf5/config.lua and replace HDF5_INCLUDE_PATH = "" with HDF5_INCLUDE_PATH = "/mnt/zye/anaconda2/include ''(The directory that I find Includes the hdf5.h header file, you should change the directory according to your finding.)

[zubair82]

I'm using windows and stuck with same error i.e, "thread 'main' panicked at 'Unable to locate HDF5 root directory and/or headers.', C:\Users\zubair.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\hdf5-sys-0.8.1\build.rs:548:13"

Can anyone help me ?