Link error: undefined constructor for ROSType

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I'm trying to build a node based on Davide Faconti's ros_type_introspection example. Everything compiles fine, and there are no issues linking against most of the ros_type_introspection stuff.

The example contains the following:

const std::string&  datatype   =  msg->getDataType();
const std::string&  definition =  msg->getMessageDefinition();

// don't worry if you do this more than once: already registered message are not overwritten.
parser.registerMessageDefinition( topic_name,
                                  RosIntrospection::ROSType(datatype),
                                  definition );

This attempts to create a ROSType object, passing in datatype, reference to a string. This produces the following linker error:

undefined reference to 'RosIntrospection::ROSType::ROSType(std::basic_string_view<char, std::char_traits<char> >)'

Note that the compiler has produced a reference to a ROSType constructor taking a std::string_view rather than a std::string. The header file has that constructor declared as:

 ROSType(absl::string_view name);

In abseil's string_view.h, there's code to conditionally use std::string_view (I'm compiling as C++17), so it's pretty clear why the compiler is doing what it's doing. The question is why the library does not agree. Presumably it was built in an environment where std::string_view was not available, so presumably that constructor has a different signature (i.e. taking absl::string_view instead).

Can anyone suggest a way to get around this?