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Please see the roscpp overview on Publishers and Subscribers for example usage and API links. To me it looks like you are missing the required template parameter for the ros::NodeHandle::advertise method. You likely need to change the call to something like

vel_pub = nh.advertise<geometry_msgs::Twist>("/cmd_vel", 30);

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