undefined reference to ros::init with beginner_tutorials
I'm trying to compile move_base (so, the navigation stack, really) from scratch, so I can modify it. However, I get
undefined reference to `ros::init(int&, char**, std::string const&, unsigned int)'
and more. To investigate this, I tried to compile the vanilla beginner tutorial with talker.cpp and listener.cpp. See code in this gist, in particular catkin_make.out.
I'm using GCC 4.9:
tsbertalan@Sigurd:~/catkin_ws$ g++ -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=g++
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: [snip]
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.9.4 (Ubuntu 4.9.4-2ubuntu1~16.04)
tsbertalan@Sigurd:~/catkin_ws$ c++ -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=c++
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: [snip]
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.9.4 (Ubuntu 4.9.4-2ubuntu1~16.04)
tsbertalan@Sigurd:~/catkin_ws$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: [snip]
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.9.4 (Ubuntu 4.9.4-2ubuntu1~16.04)
tsbertalan@Sigurd:~/catkin_ws$
I've tried the catkin_make clean; catkin_make combo with both the 4.9.4 and 5.4.1 alternatives, with the same results.
and I don't think any of my environment variables specially enable C++11 features.
Anyone have pointers on what might be going wrong, or how to debug this? I have ROS Kinetic, on Ubuntu 16.04.
As a new clue, catkin_make VERBOSE=1 2>&1 | grep so gives, among other things,
/usr/bin/c++ -std=c++0x CMakeFiles/talker.dir/src/talker.cpp.o -o /home/tsbertalan/catkin_ws/devel/lib/beginner_tutorials/talker -rdynamic /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/libroscpp.so -lboost_signals -lboost_filesystem /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/librosconsole.so /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/librosconsole_log4cxx.so /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/librosconsole_backend_interface.so -llog4cxx -lboost_regex /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/libxmlrpcpp.so /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/libroscpp_serialization.so /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/librostime.so /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/libcpp_common.so -lboost_system -lboost_thread -lboost_chrono -lboost_date_time -lboost_atomic -lpthread -lconsole_bridge -Wl,-rpath,/opt/ros/kinetic/lib
When I then look for symbols in libroscpp.so using objdump -TC /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/libroscpp.so | grep ros::init, I find
0000000000124a40 g DF .text 00000000000007da Base ros::init(int&, char**, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, unsigned int)
to be the closest to what's used in talker.cpp
talker.cpp:(.text+0x70): undefined reference to `ros::init(int&, char**, std::string const&, unsigned int)'
Is the fix then to self-compile roscpp without c++11? This seems like it shouldn't be needed. ros-kinetic-full was initially installed via apt-get as per the online instructions.
Do you have a custom GCC install? Ubuntu 16.04 should have GCC 5.4.0 by default
@rohbotics 4.8, 4.9, and 5 are all installed by apt. See gccVersionCheck.out in the gist. This machine was updated from I think an original 14.04 install, so maybe the old GCC version was kept for my user.
@rohbotics Moreover, using
sudo update-alternatives --config gccto set the version to 5.4.1 doesn't fix the error.I think gcc on 16.04 defaults to C++11 , and it's used to build all of the ROS packages, so the solution is probably to remove any c++0x flags if you're specifying them as part of your build.
I have no such flags. Just now, I created a new
~/newcatkin_wsand put this plain-vanilla tutorial in it, but it still fails in the same way. Pretty crazy.@tsbertalan: can you try forcing C++11 support for
beginners_tutorials? Just addadd_definitions(-std=c++11)to itsCMakeLists.txt. With these flags the 'newest one wins', so that should allow us to see whether the-std=c++0xis the problem here.@gvdhoorn I added that at the top, but results were the same. Should I have added it elsewhere in the file? I know the order matters.
Run the build with
VERBOSE=1and post the compiler command line.