PCL LNK2001 unresolved external symbol EuclideanClusterExtraction extract()

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I have been getting the following linker error when building with the Point Cloud Library (PCL 1.8.1) in Visual Studio 2017 – not at all sure why:

Error	LNK2001	unresolved external symbol "public: void __cdecl
pcl::EuclideanClusterExtraction
::extract(class std::vector > &)" (?extract@?$EuclideanClusterExtraction@UPointNormal@pcl@@@pcl@@QEAAXAEAV?$vector@UPointIndices@pcl@@V?$allocator@UPointIndices@pcl@@@std@@@std@@@Z)

I found that to get rid of the linker error I needed to include:

#include

Again I am not sure why, and it is not usual to have to include impl/* files? – I may look into it a bit further if I get a chance but for now I am happy that my code links!