Why can't CMake find the installed Boost libraries? (Boost-catkin error)
I'm trying to get the Boost library working with catkin and CMake on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04). CMake can successfully find Boost, but can't find the libraries, instead failing to when running catkin_make
with this error:
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.2/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1201 (message):
Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.
Boost version: 1.54.0
Boost include path: /usr/include
Could not find the following Boost libraries:
boost_algorithm
boost_core
No Boost libraries were found. You may need to set BOOST_LIBRARYDIR to the
directory containing Boost libraries or BOOST_ROOT to the location of
Boost.
I've made the necessary edits to my CMakeLists.txt file, as per the wiki page. And I've also searched other ROS/StackOverflow questions here, here and here, however none of these solutions have worked for me.
Boost is definitely installed in the /usr/include/boost folder, and all the libraries are there so I'm not sure why CMake isn't finding them. I've also tried using set()
to change BOOST_LIBRARYDIR
and BOOST_ROOT
in the CMakeList.txt file, but if that's the solution then I haven't found the right filepath to set them to.
When I add set(Boost_DEBUG 1)
the compiler spits out more information, including this:
-- [ /usr/share/cmake-3.2/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1104 ] Boost_FOUND = 1
-- Boost version: 1.54.0
-- Found the following Boost libraries:
-- system
-- filesystem
-- thread
-- date_time
-- iostreams
-- serialization
-- chrono
So it seems that Boost is being found, but it only detects a few libraries. However there are definitely more libraries than those few present in the /usr/include/boost folder, so I'm not sure why only these ones are being found.
My CMakeList.txt file is:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.3)
project(myproject)
find_package( PCL REQUIRED)
find_package( catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS
roscpp
rospy
std_msgs
sensor_msgs
pcl_ros
pcl_conversions
roslaunch
)
find_package( Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS
algorithm
core
)
catkin_package()
include_directories( include
${catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS}
${PCL_INCLUDE_DIRS}
${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}
)
link_directories(${PCL_LIBRARY_DIRS})
add_definitions(${PCL_DEFINTIONS})
# All the "add_executable" and "link_target_libraries" commands for my .cpp files.
If anyone has any advice or suggestions on how to resolve this problem, I'd be very appreciative.
UPDATES
There are actually two versions of boost installed on my system. v1.54.0 in
/usr/include/boost/version.hpp
and v1.65.1 in/usr/lib/boost_1_65_1/boost/version.hpp
In response to @gvdhoorn's comment, the output of
dpkg -l | grep boost
is here: output of grep boost.txt. Note that grep doesn't return anything about v1.65.1I've noticed that my code will compile and run if I only use v1.54.0 and don't include
<boost/core/demangle.hpp>
as it seems that v1.54.0 does have the other two files I'm including (<boost/foreach.hpp>
and<boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
) but not this one.In response to @gvdhoorn's answer: I added the following lines to my CMakeLists.txt file, to try to force CMake to use version 1.65.1:
set(BOOST_ROOT /usr/lib ...
/usr/include/boost
implies that this is a user-built install of Boost, not one maintained by the package manager / distributed with your OS. Is that correct?I'm not entirely sure sorry, since I've somewhat mindlessly installed so many different packages through the command-line. There are definitely two versions though - 1.54.0 in /usr/include/boost and 1.65.1 in /usr/lib/. 1.65.1 I manually installed, and I can't remember where 1.54.0 came from.
Which OS is this? And I would expect Boost files in both
/usr/include/boost
as well as/usr/lib
: the former are the headers, while the latter are the libraries.Assuming a debian OS: what is the output of
dpkg -l | grep boost
?Oops, yes sorry I should have mentioned I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. I'll update my question momentarily. Thanks for your help as always.