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The error you get is actually quite clear, especially when you look at the following snippet from your CMakeLists.txt:

add_executable(joystick src/joystick.cpp)
target_link_libraries(joystick ${catkin_LIBRARIES})

add_executable(js_info src/js_info.cpp)
target_link_libraries(js_info ${catkin_LIBRARIES} joystick)

You are trying to link js_info against catkin_LIBRARIES (good) and against joystick (not good). That can't work: joystick is an executable, you just declared it 4 lines earlier with add_executable(joystick src/joystick.cpp). You cannot link two executables together.

The error you get is actually quite clear, especially when you look at the following snippet from your CMakeLists.txt:

add_executable(joystick src/joystick.cpp)
target_link_libraries(joystick ${catkin_LIBRARIES})

add_executable(js_info src/js_info.cpp)
target_link_libraries(js_info ${catkin_LIBRARIES} joystick)

You are trying to link js_info against catkin_LIBRARIES (good) and against joystick (not good). That can't work: joystick is an executable, you just declared it 4 lines earlier with add_executable(joystick src/joystick.cpp). You cannot link two executables together.

Also: this is really not ROS related, it's basic CMake and building of executables / binaries.

The error you get is actually quite clear, especially when you look at the following snippet from your CMakeLists.txt:

add_executable(joystick src/joystick.cpp)
target_link_libraries(joystick ${catkin_LIBRARIES})

add_executable(js_info src/js_info.cpp)
target_link_libraries(js_info ${catkin_LIBRARIES} joystick)

You are trying to link js_info against catkin_LIBRARIES (good) and against joystick (not good). That can't work: joystick is an executable, you just declared it 4 lines earlier with add_executable(joystick src/joystick.cpp). You cannot link two executables together.

Also: this is really not ROS related, it's basic CMake and building of executables / binaries.


Edit:

[..] if i change that line to

target_link_libraries(js_info ${catkin_LIBRARIES} )

like this. I get the following error:

[..]
CMakeFiles/js_info.dir/src/js_info.cpp.o: In function `main':
js_info.cpp:(.text+0x7a): undefined reference to `Joystick::Joystick(char const*)'
js_info.cpp:(.text+0x204): undefined reference to `Joystick::getName()'
js_info.cpp:(.text+0x234): undefined reference to `Joystick::numAxes()'
[..]

This seems to indicate that the js_info target requires symbols from joystick.cpp. You could either:

  • make the joystick target a library (add_library(..) instead of add_executable(..)) and link js_info against that, or
  • add joystick.cpp to the list of source files for the js_info target