Make77 error while installing Darknet on Windows - yolo

Question

I am facing the Make77 problem. Can somebody help me out?
mingw32-make
gcc -Iinclude/ -Isrc/ -Wall -Wno-unused-result -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wfatal-errors -fPIC -Ofast obj/captcha.o obj/lsd.o obj/super.o obj/art.o obj/tag.o obj/cifar.o obj/go.o obj/rnn.o obj/segmenter.o obj/regressor.o obj/classifier.o obj/coco.o obj/yolo.o obj/detector.o obj/nightmare.o obj/instance-segmenter.o obj/darknet.o libdarknet.a -o darknet -lm -pthread libdarknet.a
c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/9.2.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: obj/go.o:go.c:(.text+0x329f): undefined reference to `__WSAFDIsSet#8'
c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/9.2.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: obj/go.o:go.c:(.text+0x32e1): undefined reference to `select#20'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:77: recipe for target 'darknet' failed
mingw32-make: *** [darknet] Error 1

Answer 1

I was in your shoes a few weeks ago and managed to fix that.
I am confident, you are trying to compile the original repository of Darknet on a Windows machine.
Cause
Unfortunately, one of the libraries used in go.c is *nix-only. It has a counterpart in Windows called winsock.h, but apparently it is not enough and the problem still persists.
Solution
Instead what you should do is use another repo of Darknet which is ported to Windows properly and has a lot of support. It has exactly the same functionality as the original repo except for very little changes which only makes the framework better. Instead of compiling with make command, you should build it with Microsoft Visual Studio. You may go with the latest version of MVS. If you want to use a GPU and install correctly, make sure you follow the instructions here https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet#requirements . To avoid any weird errors, install the requirements in order.
When all requirements are installed, navigate to build/darknet and open darknet.sln. Switch to Release and x64 and build the project.
That should be it. If you have any issues, let me know so I can help you. Also, if this solution works for you, make sure to mark my reply as the best answer.