simple navigation goals fails compile, boost link error

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You are right that you need to link boost. However, I think you did not do so quite correctly. You don't actually need to specify the boost distribution and you also want the rosbuild_link_boost line after the rosbuild_add_executable line. It should look like:

rosbuild_add_boost_directories()
rosbuild_add_executable(simple_navigation_goals src/simple_navigation_goals.cpp)
rosbuild_link_boost(${PROJECT_NAME} thread)

Here is my entire CMakeLists.txt file. I saw the same error as you did without linking boost, but was able to compile the example with this file:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.4.6)
include($ENV{ROS_ROOT}/core/rosbuild/rosbuild.cmake)

# Set the build type.  Options are:
#  Coverage       : w/ debug symbols, w/o optimization, w/ code-coverage
#  Debug          : w/ debug symbols, w/o optimization
#  Release        : w/o debug symbols, w/ optimization
#  RelWithDebInfo : w/ debug symbols, w/ optimization
#  MinSizeRel     : w/o debug symbols, w/ optimization, stripped binaries
#set(ROS_BUILD_TYPE RelWithDebInfo)

rosbuild_init()

#set the default path for built executables to the "bin" directory
set(EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/bin)
#set the default path for built libraries to the "lib" directory
set(LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib)

#uncomment if you have defined messages
#rosbuild_genmsg()
#uncomment if you have defined services
#rosbuild_gensrv()

#common commands for building c++ executables and libraries
#rosbuild_add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} src/example.cpp)
#target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} another_library)
rosbuild_add_boost_directories()
rosbuild_add_executable(simple_navigation_goals src/simple_navigation_goals.cpp)
rosbuild_link_boost(${PROJECT_NAME} thread)
#target_link_libraries(example ${PROJECT_NAME})