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Diamondback's image_transport fails to compile, how come?

asked 2011-08-17 21:19:53 -0500

Julius gravatar image

updated 2014-01-28 17:10:14 -0500

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I am compiling ROS Diamondback from source, following the instructions at http://www.ros.org/wiki/diamondback/Installation/Arch. Most of the packages, especially core ones like roscpp compile without any problems, but when compiling image_transport via

rosmake image_transport

I receive the following error, where

  [ 10%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/image_transport.dir/src/publisher.o
  In file included from /usr/include/boost/ptr_container/detail/reversible_ptr_container.hpp:24:0,
                   from /usr/include/boost/ptr_container/ptr_sequence_adapter.hpp:20,
                   from /usr/include/boost/ptr_container/ptr_vector.hpp:20,
                   from /opt/ros/diamondback/image_common/image_transport/src/publisher.cpp:38:
/usr/include/boost/ptr_container/clone_allocator.hpp:
[...] lots of other compiler error output [...]
 /opt/ros/diamondback/image_common/image_transport/src/publisher.cpp:59:5:   instantiated from here
  /usr/include/boost/ptr_container/clone_allocator.hpp:34:27: error: cannot allocate an object of abstract type ‘image_transport::PublisherPlugin’
  /opt/ros/diamondback/image_common/image_transport/include/image_transport/publisher_plugin.h:13:7: note:   because the following virtual functions are pure within ‘image_transport::PublisherPlugin’:
  /opt/ros/diamondback/image_common/image_transport/include/image_transport/publisher_plugin.h:22:23: note:     virtual std::string image_transport::PublisherPlugin::getTransportName() const
  /opt/ros/diamondback/image_common/image_transport/include/image_transport/publisher_plugin.h:49:20: note:     virtual uint32_t image_transport::PublisherPlugin::getNumSubscribers() const
  /opt/ros/diamondback/image_common/image_transport/include/image_transport/publisher_plugin.h:54:23: note:     virtual std::string image_transport::PublisherPlugin::getTopic() const
  /opt/ros/diamondback/image_common/image_transport/include/image_transport/publisher_plugin.h:59:16: note:     virtual void image_transport::PublisherPlugin::publish(const Image&) const
  /opt/ros/diamondback/image_common/image_transport/include/image_transport/publisher_plugin.h:72:16: note:     virtual void image_transport::PublisherPlugin::shutdown()
  /opt/ros/diamondback/image_common/image_transport/include/image_transport/publisher_plugin.h:87:16: note:     virtual void image_transport::PublisherPlugin::advertiseImpl(ros::NodeHandle&, const string&, uint32_t, const SubscriberStatusCallback&, const SubscriberStatusCallback&, const VoidPtr&, bool)
  make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/image_transport.dir/src/publisher.o] Error 1
  make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/ros/diamondback/image_common/image_transport/build'
  make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/image_transport.dir/all] Error 2
  make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/ros/diamondback/image_common/image_transport/build'
  make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/ros/diamondback/image_common/image_transport/build'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------}
[ rosmake ] Output from build of package image_transport written to:

The compiler doesn't like line 59 in image_transport/src/publishers.cpp

 56   uint32_t getNumSubscribers() const
 57   {
 58     uint32_t count = 0;
 59     BOOST_FOREACH(const PublisherPlugin& pub, publishers_)
 60       count += pub.getNumSubscribers();
 61     return count;
 62   }
 63

This very much seems like some piece of code trying to instantiate an abstract class that contains pure virtual methods (=0). Yet, I expect Diamondback's source tag to compile and be consistent. Is it possible that this is symptom of an incompatibility of ROS diamondback with a certain Boost version?

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What version of Boost are you using? Our target platforms are specified in http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0003.html. For Diamondback we expect 1.40, but I'd expect at least as far back as 1.37 (C Turtle) to work.
Patrick Mihelich gravatar image Patrick Mihelich  ( 2011-08-18 10:45:02 -0500 )edit
I am using boost version 1.47.0-1. I might try to use version 1.40 then, thanks! If that doesn't work out, of course, I'll move to Ubuntu for ROS development. I am fully aware that Arch support is experimental.
Julius gravatar image Julius  ( 2011-08-18 18:53:15 -0500 )edit

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answered 2011-08-18 19:29:42 -0500

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ROS Diamondback's pluginlib (image_transport depends on pluginlib) compiles with Boost 1.43,0-1 but not with Boost 1.47.01 on Arch. Use Arch Rollback Machine to downgrade to older version of Boost to solve this issue (thanks Patrick for this link: http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0003.html).

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answered 2011-10-10 03:20:13 -0500

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I got it to compile by changing the offending BOOST_FOREACH into a regular for loop.


for ( uint32_t i = 0 ; i < publishers_.size() ; i++ )
    count += publishers_[i].getNumSubscribers() ;

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