Can't link std::filesystem even with -lstdc++fs - c++

I'm trying to compile an application that uses std::filesystem. I'm using CMake for the build system, and g++-8 as a compiler.
My CMakeLists.txt includes target_link_libraries(<target_name> PUBLIC stdc++fs) and set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
make VERBOSE=1 shows that -lstdc++fs is used in the linker command.
Despite this, I get undefined references to std::filesystem components everywhere they are used.
It compiles fine in Docker, so it's clearly an environment issue.
Any tips for tracking this down?
EDIT:
I can't post the exact error message because of company rules, and it's also super long. I'll post a truncated, anonymized version though:
CMakeFiles/ProjectName.dir/src/ui/dir_a/file_a.cpp.o: In function `ProjectName::ClassName::update(ProjectName::Body&)':
/home/username/prog/bots/src/ui/dir_a/file_a.cpp:30: undefined reference to `std::filesystem::current_path[abi:cxx11]()'
/home/username/prog/bots/src/ui/dir_a/file_a.cpp:35: undefined reference to `std::filesystem::create_directories(std::filesystem::__cxx11::path const&)'
CMakeFiles/ProjectName.dir/src/ui/dir_a/file_a.cpp.o: In function `std::filesystem::__cxx11::path::operator+=(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)':
/usr/include/c++/8/bits/fs_path.h:817: undefined reference to `std::filesystem::__cxx11::path::_M_split_cmpts()'
CMakeFiles/ProjectName.dir/src/ui/dir_a/file_a.cpp.o: In function `std::filesystem::__cxx11::path::operator+=(char const*)':
/usr/include/c++/8/bits/fs_path.h:825: undefined reference to `std::filesystem::__cxx11::path::_M_split_cmpts()'
CMakeFiles/ProjectName.dir/src/ui/dir_a/file_a.cpp.o: In function `std::filesystem::exists(std::filesystem::__cxx11::path const&)':
/usr/include/c++/8/bits/fs_ops.h:121: undefined reference to `std::filesystem::status(std::filesystem::__cxx11::path const&)'
CMakeFiles/ProjectName.dir/src/ui/dir_b/file_b.cpp.o: In function `ProjectName::ClassName::update[abi:cxx11]()':
/home/username/prog/bots/src/ui/dir_b/file_b.cpp:30: undefined reference to `std::filesystem::current_path[abi:cxx11]()'
/home/username/prog/bots/src/ui/dir_b/file_b.cpp:34: undefined reference to `std::filesystem::create_directories(std::filesystem::__cxx11::path const&)'
/home/username/prog/bots/src/ui/dir_b/file_b.cpp:36: undefined reference to `std::filesystem::__cxx11::directory_iterator::operator*() const'
/home/username/prog/bots/src/ui/dir_b/file_b.cpp:40: undefined reference to `std::filesystem::__cxx11::path::replace_extension(std::filesystem::__cxx11::path const&)'
/home/username/prog/bots/src/ui/dir_b/file_b.cpp:36: undefined reference to `std::filesystem::__cxx11::directory_iterator::operator++()'
CMakeFiles/ProjectName.dir/src/ui/dir_b/file_b.cpp.o: In function `std::filesystem::__cxx11::path::path(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >&&, std::filesystem::__cxx11::path::format)':
/usr/include/c++/8/bits/fs_path.h:177: undefined reference to `std::filesystem::__cxx11::path::_M_split_cmpts()'
It continues like that for a hundred or so lines.
Software versions:
Ubuntu 18.04
g++-8 (installed with `apt`)
CMake 3.14.2

Upgrading to g++ 9 fixed the problem, but if anyone knows how to fix the problem and still use g++ 8 I'll accept that answer.

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Make utility complains about "undefined reference" when I tried to make TPC-E test [duplicate]

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The problem is compounded by the fact that I am far from programming.
I need to use the TPC-E test. I downloaded the source codes from their website.
There is a miserable and almost meaningless ReadMe.
Here are its contents:
To use the Makefile you must first set the following environment variables
to match your system and compiler requirements:
CXX: path and name of compiler
ex: export CXX=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/CC (C++ compiler on Solaris)
CCFLAGS: compiler options
ex: export CCFLAGS="-g -O"
-g enable debug
-O optimize code
LDFLAGS: linker/loader options
ex: export LDFLAGS="-g"
LIBS: extra libraries to link in
ex: export LIBS="-lpthread"
According to the instructions there, I created the necessary environment variables (I just removed the -g switch from the CCFLAGS variable). After that, I ran the make utility and got more than five thousand lines of errors. Apparently he lacks some libraries. On this my knowledge ends.
Here are some error messages received:
...
/usr/bin/ld: DateTime.o: in function `TPCE::CDateTime::Validate(int, int, int, int, int, int, int)': DateTime.cpp:(.text+0xee): undefined reference to `std::__cxx11::basic_ostringstream<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_ostringstream(std::_Ios_Openmode)'
/usr/bin/ld: DateTime.cpp:(.text+0xfd): undefined reference to `std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >& std::operator<< <std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&, char const*)'
/usr/bin/ld: DateTime.cpp:(.text+0x107): undefined reference to `__cxa_allocate_exception'
/usr/bin/ld: DateTime.cpp:(.text+0x117): undefined reference to `std::__cxx11::basic_stringbuf<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::str() const'
/usr/bin/ld: DateTime.cpp:(.text+0x122): undefined reference to `std::out_of_range::out_of_range(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)'
/usr/bin/ld: DateTime.cpp:(.text+0x135): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
...
/usr/bin/ld: error.cpp:(.text._ZN4TPCE10CSystemErrD0Ev[_ZN4TPCE10CSystemErrD5Ev]+0x24): undefined reference to `std::exception::~exception()'
/usr/bin/ld: error.cpp:(.text._ZN4TPCE10CSystemErrD0Ev[_ZN4TPCE10CSystemErrD5Ev]+0x31): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*, unsigned long)'
/usr/bin/ld: error.o: in function `TPCE::CSystemErr::~CSystemErr()':error.cpp:(.text._ZN4TPCE10CSystemErrD2Ev[_ZN4TPCE10CSystemErrD5Ev]+0x1c): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
...
/usr/bin/ld: locking.cpp:(.text+0x1fb): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*)'
/usr/bin/ld: locking.cpp:(.text+0x202): undefined reference to `std::runtime_error::~runtime_error()'
/usr/bin/ld: locking.cpp:(.text+0x209): undefined reference to `typeinfo for std::runtime_error'
/usr/bin/ld: locking.cpp:(.text+0x211): undefined reference to `__cxa_throw'
/usr/bin/ld: locking.o: in function `TPCE::CMutex::lock()':locking.cpp:(.text+0x246): undefined reference to `std::__cxx11::basic_ostringstream<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_ostringstream(std::_Ios_Openmode)'
...
A search on the internet made me think of installing the libboost-all-dev package, but that didn't help. In the end, I gave up - I’m completely incomprehensible to the terminology and I don’t have time to study C ++ programming.
Operating System - Debian 10
Questions: which libraries need to be installed and is there anyone who used these tests, how to adapt them to PostgreSQL?
Full error log (892 230 bytes)
I replaced
export CXX=/usr/bin/gcc
with
export CXX=/usr/bin/c++

Undefined reference problem with antlr4 c++ target

I am taking a compiler design course and I am trying to learn about ANTLR4 with a C++ target.
Well, that's what I went through:
I Wrote the grammar in a file named "ArrayInit.g4"
Compiled it using ANTLR4 tool and the command "antlr4 -Dlanguage=Cpp -o build" and got a bunch of files in the "build/" directory where I added also a simple file containing the main function int main(){return 0;}
Downloaded the C++ runtime and put it in a directory "runtime/"
In this stage I got stuck, I could not compile the .cpp files using the command "g++ -std=c++11 -I ../runtime -o exec *.cpp" and i get the following error messages:
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o: In function `ArrayInitLexer::ArrayInitLexer(antlr4::CharStream*)':
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0xc8): undefined reference to `antlr4::Lexer::Lexer(antlr4::CharStream*)'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x116): undefined reference to `antlr4::atn::LexerATNSimulator::LexerATNSimulator(antlr4::Lexer*, antlr4::atn::ATN const&, std::vector<antlr4::dfa::DFA, std::allocator<antlr4::dfa::DFA> >&, std::unordered_set<std::shared_ptr<antlr4::atn::PredictionContext>, antlr4::atn::PredictionContextHasher, antlr4::atn::PredictionContextComparer, std::allocator<std::shared_ptr<antlr4::atn::PredictionContext> > >&)'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o: In function `ArrayInitLexer::Initializer::Initializer()':
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x376): undefined reference to `antlr4::dfa::Vocabulary::getLiteralName[abi:cxx11](unsigned long) const'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x3a6): undefined reference to `antlr4::dfa::Vocabulary::getSymbolicName[abi:cxx11](unsigned long) const'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x4b2): undefined reference to `antlr4::atn::ATNDeserializer::ATNDeserializer()'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x4d2): undefined reference to `antlr4::atn::ATNDeserializer::deserialize(std::vector<unsigned short, std::allocator<unsigned short> > const&)'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x4e8): undefined reference to `antlr4::atn::ATN::operator=(antlr4::atn::ATN&&)'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x4f7): undefined reference to `antlr4::atn::ATN::~ATN()'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x503): undefined reference to `antlr4::atn::ATN::getNumberOfDecisions() const'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x551): undefined reference to `antlr4::atn::ATN::getDecisionState(unsigned long) const'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x598): undefined reference to `antlr4::atn::ATNDeserializer::~ATNDeserializer()'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x601): undefined reference to `antlr4::atn::ATNDeserializer::~ATNDeserializer()'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o: In function `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)':
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x6ec): undefined reference to `antlr4::atn::ATN::ATN()'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0x701): undefined reference to `antlr4::atn::ATN::~ATN()'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0xee6): undefined reference to `antlr4::dfa::Vocabulary::Vocabulary(std::vector<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::allocator<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > > const&, std::vector<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::allocator<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > > const&)'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text+0xefb): undefined reference to `antlr4::dfa::Vocabulary::~Vocabulary()'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o: In function `antlr4::Lexer::~Lexer()':
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text._ZN6antlr45LexerD2Ev[_ZN6antlr45LexerD5Ev]+0xf): undefined reference to `vtable for antlr4::Lexer'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text._ZN6antlr45LexerD2Ev[_ZN6antlr45LexerD5Ev]+0x1d): undefined reference to `vtable for antlr4::Lexer'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text._ZN6antlr45LexerD2Ev[_ZN6antlr45LexerD5Ev]+0x7d): undefined reference to `antlr4::TokenSource::~TokenSource()'
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text._ZN6antlr45LexerD2Ev[_ZN6antlr45LexerD5Ev]+0x89): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::~Recognizer()'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o: In function `void __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<antlr4::dfa::DFA>::construct<antlr4::dfa::DFA, antlr4::atn::DecisionState*, unsigned long&>(antlr4::dfa::DFA*, antlr4::atn::DecisionState*&&, unsigned long&)':
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text._ZN9__gnu_cxx13new_allocatorIN6antlr43dfa3DFAEE9constructIS3_JPNS1_3atn13DecisionStateERmEEEvPT_DpOT0_[_ZN9__gnu_cxx13new_allocatorIN6antlr43dfa3DFAEE9constructIS3_JPNS1_3atn13DecisionStateERmEEEvPT_DpOT0_]+0x60): undefined reference to `antlr4::dfa::DFA::DFA(antlr4::atn::DecisionState*, unsigned long)'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o: In function `void std::_Construct<antlr4::dfa::DFA, antlr4::dfa::DFA>(antlr4::dfa::DFA*, antlr4::dfa::DFA&&)':
ArrayInitLexer.cpp:(.text._ZSt10_ConstructIN6antlr43dfa3DFAEJS2_EEvPT_DpOT0_[_ZSt10_ConstructIN6antlr43dfa3DFAEJS2_EEvPT_DpOT0_]+0x44): undefined reference to `antlr4::dfa::DFA::DFA(antlr4::dfa::DFA&&)'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0x38): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::getTokenTypeMap[abi:cxx11]()'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0x40): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::getRuleIndexMap[abi:cxx11]()'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0x48): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::getTokenType(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0x60): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::getErrorHeader[abi:cxx11](antlr4::RecognitionException*)'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0x68): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::getTokenErrorDisplay[abi:cxx11](antlr4::Token*)'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0x70): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::addErrorListener(antlr4::ANTLRErrorListener*)'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0x78): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::removeErrorListener(antlr4::ANTLRErrorListener*)'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0x80): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::removeErrorListeners()'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0x88): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::getErrorListenerDispatch()'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0x90): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::sempred(antlr4::RuleContext*, unsigned long, unsigned long)'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0x98): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::precpred(antlr4::RuleContext*, int)'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0xa0): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::action(antlr4::RuleContext*, unsigned long, unsigned long)'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0xa8): undefined reference to `antlr4::Recognizer::getState() const'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0xb8): undefined reference to `antlr4::Lexer::getInputStream()'
/tmp/cc8VNGfx.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV14ArrayInitLexer[_ZTV14ArrayInitLexer]+0xc0): undefined reference to `antlr4::Lexer::setInputStream(antlr4::IntStream*)'
I am totaly new to C++ and I am skipping a basic idea maybe.
Edit1: I am using Linux
Edit2:
When I execute the commande antlr4 -Dlanguage=Cpp -o build I get a bunch of .cpp and .h files as: ArrayInitLexer.h and many of them include antlr4-runtime.h .This header file is present in the runtime/ folder which by it self includes many other header files in the same directory (.i.e runtime/) that contains .h and .cpp files (I see no .a or .so files).
You can find the runtime here under the C++ target section or directly from here
Your compile command doesn't look quite right.
Note that g++ takes an uppercase -L switch to specify a location to look for libraries, and a lowercase -l to specify the filename of a library to link, not including a lib prefix and the file suffix. Since in at least the version I see, antlr provides a "libantlr.a", this would be -l antlr.
Also, the library should be given after your program source or object file(s), because in most cases the linker decides what pieces of libraries to include based on whether they provide any symbols it knows are needed by what it has seen so far.
So I'm not sure if this will solve all the problems, but a step forward would be:
g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -Wextra *.cpp -L ../runtime -l antlr -o exec
I've also taken the liberty of adding the -W flags to enable a default set of compiler warnings, which is a must when writing new C++ code, whether you're new to the language or not.

CppDB compilation errors

I followed the following steps in order to build CppDB:
svn co http://cppcms.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cppcms/cppdb/trunk cppdb-trunk
cd cppdb-trunk
cmake ~/Desktop/cppdb-trunk
make
make install
Afterwards, I'm trying to compile and run the file example1.cpp from the examples directory.
When I run gcc example1.cpp I get the following errors:
/tmp/ccGWenrv.o: In function main':
example1.cpp:(.text+0x2a): undefined reference tostd::allocator::allocator()'
example1.cpp:(.text+0x42): undefined reference to std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_string(char const*, std::allocator<char> const&)'
example1.cpp:(.text+0x58): undefined reference tocppdb::session::session(std::__cxx11::basic_string, std::allocator > const&)'
example1.cpp:(.text+0x64): undefined reference to std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::~basic_string()'
example1.cpp:(.text+0x73): undefined reference tostd::allocator::~allocator()'
example1.cpp:(.text+0x91): undefined reference to cppdb::session::operator<<(char const*)'
example1.cpp:(.text+0xa5): undefined reference tocppdb::statement::operator<<(void ()(cppdb::statement&))'
example1.cpp:(.text+0xb4): undefined reference to cppdb::statement::~statement()'
example1.cpp:(.text+0xd2): undefined reference tocppdb::session::operator<<(char const)'
example1.cpp:(.text+0xe6): undefined reference to cppdb::statement::operator<<(void (*)(cppdb::statement&))'
example1.cpp:(.text+0xf5): undefined reference tocppdb::statement::~statement()'
example1.cpp:(.text+0x170): undefined reference to cppdb::statement::statement()'
example1.cpp:(.text+0x18e): undefined reference tocppdb::session::operator<<(char const*)'
example1.cpp:(.text+0x1db): undefined reference to cppdb::statement::operator<<(tm const&)'
example1.cpp:(.text+0x1e8): undefined reference tocppdb::statement::operator<<(char const*)'
example1.cpp:(.text+0x1fd): undefined reference to `cppdb::statement::operator=(cppdb::statement const&)'
etc.
Any suggestions?
Try g++ example1.cpp -lcppdb. You need to link against the C++ run-time library (using g++ instead of gcc takes care of that) and against CppDB itself (the -lcppdb part). If GCC cannot find the -lcppdb library, you'll have to provide the path using -L, and you may have to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH at run time as well.

ROS Linking errors using boost::filesystem library using C++ under linux

I get the following errors:
CMakeFiles/ndt_visualiser.dir/src/fromFile.o: In function `boost::filesystem3::path::codecvt()':
/usr/include/boost/filesystem/v3/path.hpp:377: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::path::wchar_t_codecvt_facet()'
CMakeFiles/ndt_visualiser.dir/src/fromFile.o: In function `directory_iterator':
/usr/include/boost/filesystem/v3/operations.hpp:594: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::detail::directory_iterator_construct(boost::filesystem3::directory_iterator&, boost::filesystem3::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
CMakeFiles/ndt_visualiser.dir/src/fromFile.o: In function `boost::filesystem3::path::codecvt()':
/usr/include/boost/filesystem/v3/path.hpp:377: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::path::wchar_t_codecvt_facet()'
CMakeFiles/ndt_visualiser.dir/src/fromFile.o: In function `path<boost::filesystem3::directory_entry>':
/usr/include/boost/filesystem/v3/path.hpp:134: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::path_traits::dispatch(boost::filesystem3::directory_entry const&, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >&, std::codecvt<wchar_t, char, __mbstate_t> const&)'
CMakeFiles/ndt_visualiser.dir/src/fromFile.o: In function `is_directory':
/usr/include/boost/filesystem/v3/operations.hpp:223: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::detail::status(boost::filesystem3::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
CMakeFiles/ndt_visualiser.dir/src/fromFile.o: In function `boost::iterator_facade<boost::filesystem3::directory_iterator, boost::filesystem3::directory_entry, boost::single_pass_traversal_tag, boost::filesystem3::directory_entry&, int>::operator++()':
/usr/include/boost/filesystem/v3/operations.hpp:630: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::detail::directory_iterator_increment(boost::filesystem3::directory_iterator&, boost::system::error_code*)'
CMakeFiles/ndt_visualiser.dir/src/fromFile.o: In function `boost::filesystem3::path::codecvt()':
/usr/include/boost/filesystem/v3/path.hpp:377: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::path::wchar_t_codecvt_facet()'
CMakeFiles/ndt_visualiser.dir/src/fromFile.o: In function `is_directory':
/usr/include/boost/filesystem/v3/operations.hpp:223: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::detail::status(boost::filesystem3::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
CMakeFiles/ndt_visualiser.dir/src/fromFile.o: In function `~dir_itr_imp':
/usr/include/boost/filesystem/v3/operations.hpp:563: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::detail::dir_itr_close(void*&, void*&)'
/usr/include/boost/filesystem/v3/operations.hpp:563: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::detail::dir_itr_close(void*&, void*&)'
CMakeFiles/ndt_visualiser.dir/src/fromFile.o: In function `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0':
/usr/include/boost/system/error_code.hpp:214: undefined reference to `boost::system::generic_category()'
/usr/include/boost/system/error_code.hpp:215: undefined reference to `boost::system::generic_category()'
/usr/include/boost/system/error_code.hpp:216: undefined reference to `boost::system::system_category()'
I've seen quite a few posts with similar errors. In pretty much all of those posts (e.g. Linking Boost Library in Linux) it seems the solution is, that you need to add the -lboost_filesystem and -lboost_system flags. I've tried adding these as lflags or cflags to the manifest.xml, but that changes absolutely nothing. And I've tried adding something to the CMakeLists.txt of my package, but I guess I was doing that wrong.
So any ideas?
You'll need to add lines like the following to your CMakeLists.txt:
rosbuild_add_boost_directories()
rosbuild_link_boost(ndt_visualizer filesystem system)
See http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosbuild/CMakeLists#rosbuild_link_boost for some more details.
Adding lines to the lflags or cflags in you manifest affects other packages linking against yours, not yours linking against others.
In the future, ROS questions are better asked on ROS Answers per the Support Guidelines
Just as a small follow-up, I was having a problem with undefined references to something involving file statuses and error codes.
The problem came up with the ordering library linking ("less dependent" libraries come after "more dependent" libraries, at least with GCC). My project used a custom library whcih was dependent on Boost.Filesystem and yaml-cpp. Before, I had my custom library linked after the boost libraries, bu that did not work. I had to fix it by making sure that boost was linked afterwards:
rosbuild_add_boost_directories()
rosbuild_add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} ${SRCS})
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} custom_lib yaml-cpp)
rosbuild_link_boost(${PROJECT_NAME} filesystem system)

gnuplot-iostream not linking to boost

Hi I'm trying to use gnuplot-iostream, at the minute I'm just trying to get the code here working. When I try to combile I get errors in the linker saying:
In function `stream<int, boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_flags>':
/usr/include/boost/iostreams/stream.hpp:130: undefined reference to `boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink::file_descriptor_sink(int, boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_flags)'
In function `boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink boost::iostreams::detail::wrap<boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink>(boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink const&, boost::disable_if<boost::iostreams::is_std_io<boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink>, void>::type*)':
/usr/include/boost/iostreams/detail/wrap_unwrap.hpp:53: undefined reference to `boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink::file_descriptor_sink(boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink const&)'
In function `concept_adapter':
/usr/include/boost/iostreams/detail/adapter/concept_adapter.hpp:67: undefined reference to `boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink::file_descriptor_sink(boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink const&)'
/usr/include/boost/iostreams/detail/adapter/concept_adapter.hpp:38: undefined reference to `boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink::file_descriptor_sink(boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink const&)'
In function `long boost::iostreams::detail::write_device_impl<boost::iostreams::output>::write<boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink>(boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink&, boost::iostreams::char_type_of<boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink>::type const*, long)':
/usr/include/boost/iostreams/write.hpp:121: undefined reference to `boost::iostreams::file_descriptor::write(char const*, long)'
In function `void boost::iostreams::detail::close_impl<boost::iostreams::closable_tag>::close<boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink>(boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink&, std::_Ios_Openmode)':
/usr/include/boost/iostreams/close.hpp:224: undefined reference to `boost::iostreams::file_descriptor::close()'
In function `std::fpos<__mbstate_t> boost::iostreams::detail::seek_device_impl<boost::iostreams::any_tag>::seek<boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink>(boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink&, long, std::_Ios_Seekdir, std::_Ios_Openmode)':
/usr/include/boost/iostreams/seek.hpp:137: undefined reference to `boost::iostreams::file_descriptor::seek(long, std::_Ios_Seekdir)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Note I have boost installed and have previously compiled programs that use iostream.
Any help massively appreciated. Thanks
Ruling out the obvious... are you compiling with g++ -lboost_iostreams? If you can share some information about how the compiler and linker are being invoked it will make it easier to answer your question.
Run into exact problem when tried to use g++ with gnuplot-iostream library.
g++ prog.cpp -L/usr/lib -lboost_filesystem -lboost_system -lboost_iostreams
Resolved the issue for me - the code were compiled successfully with no errors.