‘boost::placeholders’ has not been declared : boost::placeholders::_1

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I am trying to launch a ROS project but I receive a very strange error: ‘boost::placeholders’ has not been declared.

I have the following settings:

1) Ubuntu 20.04

2) ROS Noetic

3) Boost 1.71

4) CMake -> cmake version 3.16.3

Below a sample of the error I receive in the terminal:

In file included from /opt/ros/noetic/include/ros/node_handle.h:34,
                 from /opt/ros/noetic/include/ros/ros.h:45,
/opt/ros/noetic/include/ros/publisher.h: In member function ‘boost::function<void(const boost::shared_ptr<ros::SubscriberLink>&)> ros::Publisher::getLastMessageCallback()’:
/opt/ros/noetic/include/ros/publisher.h:179:70: error: ‘boost::placeholders’ has not been declared
  179 |       return boost::bind(&Impl::pushLastMessage, impl_.get(), boost::placeholders::_1);

Below the file that seems to carry this error is reported:

  template<class M, class T>
  Subscriber subscribe(const std::string& topic, uint32_t queue_size, void(T::*fp)(M), T* obj,
                       const TransportHints& transport_hints = TransportHints())
  {
    SubscribeOptions ops;
    ops.template initByFullCallbackType<M>(topic, queue_size, boost::bind(fp, obj, boost::placeholders::_1));
    ops.transport_hints = transport_hints;
    return subscribe(ops);
  }

Following this source I can confirm I added C++14:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.3)
project(lidar_boat_detection)
set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Debug)
add_compile_options(-std=c++14 -g)

find_package(PCL 1.8 REQUIRED)

include_directories(${PCL_INCLUDE_DIRS})
link_directories(${PCL_LIBRARY_DIRS})
add_definitions(${PCL_DEFINITIONS})

find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS 
  system
  filesystem 
  date_time 
  thread
 )


find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS 
  roscpp
  pcl_conversions
  pcl_ros
  std_msgs
  message_generation
)

    ... Other modules and stuff

1) Following this source I can confirm I added

2) Also I consulted this source and I added #include <boost/bind/bind.hpp> instead of #include <boost/bind.hpp> as per new directive and I added using namespace boost::placeholders;. However non of these solutions worked and another thing I tried was to add #include <boost/bind/placeholders.hpp> and that also didn't work:

#ifndef ROSCPP_PUBLISHER_HANDLE_H
#define ROSCPP_PUBLISHER_HANDLE_H

#include "ros/forwards.h"
#include "ros/common.h"
#include "ros/message.h"
#include "ros/serialization.h"

//#include <boost/bind.hpp>
#include <boost/bind/bind.hpp>

#include <boost/thread/mutex.hpp>

using namespace boost::placeholders;

namespace ros
{

  class NodeHandleBackingCollection;

  ....

}

3) Always from the same post I tried to add the following line #define BOOST_BIND_NO_PLACEHOLDERS at the beginning of the file but that also didn't work:

#ifndef ROSCPP_PUBLISHER_HANDLE_H
#define ROSCPP_PUBLISHER_HANDLE_H

#define BOOST_BIND_NO_PLACEHOLDERS


#include "ros/forwards.h"
#include "ros/common.h"
#include "ros/message.h"
#include "ros/serialization.h"

//#include <boost/bind.hpp>
#include <boost/bind/bind.hpp>

#include <boost/thread/mutex.hpp>

using namespace boost::placeholders;

namespace ros
{

  class NodeHandleBackingCollection;

  ....

}

4) I dug more and come across this post but unfortunately it was not useful to solve the problem.

5) This question would have been useful is a proper answer would have been provided as this is extremely close to the problem I have.

I am running out of ideas on how to solve it. Thanks for pointing in the right direction for solving this issue.