Compiling c++ program with multiple files - c++

I am trying to compile a c++ program with multiple files!
mainfile.cc
#include<iostream>
#include "funcfile.hh"
int main()
{
init();
}
funcfile.hh
#include<iostream>
void init();
funcfile.cc
#include<iostream>
#include "funcfile.hh"
using namespace std;
void init()
{
cout<<"hi"<<endl;
}
I am creating the binary as below:
> CC funcfile.cc mainfile.cc -o output
funcfile.cc:
mainfile.cc:
ld: warning: symbol .dynsym[19] has invalid section index; ignored:
(file /usr/local/opt/SunWorkShop/sws_5.0/SUNWspro/lib/libm.so value=19);
And when i execute the output:
> ./output
hi
>
But my concern here is should I care about the message during the compilation:
ld: warning: symbol .dynsym[19] has invalid section index; ignored:
(file /usr/local/opt/SunWorkShop/sws_5.0/SUNWspro/lib/libm.so value=19);
CC version is :
> CC -V
CC: WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0

You are using a compiler that is almost 15 years old. The ELF format has evolved a little bit during that time, it seems that your compiler does not recognize some of the newer special section indexes (see e.g. here, table 7-4). This warning is not something to worry about, but I'd suggest to use a newer compiler, if possible.

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extern main declaration from bsplib returns error

Im setting up the bsplib (https://github.com/Zefiros-Software/BSPLib) on a windows system (in VS Code) using WSL. When compiling I get the error message:
test.cpp:4:5: error: conflicting declaration of C function ‘int main()’
4 | int main()
| ^~~~
In file included from /mnt/d/study/software/bsp/include/bsp/bspExt.h:30,
from /mnt/d/study/software/bsp/include/bsp/bsp.h:34,
from test.cpp:2:
/mnt/d/study/software/bsp/include/bsp/bspClass.h:59:12: note: previous declaration ‘int main(int, char**)’
59 | extern int main(int argc, char **argv);
The program is used is just a bare example for BSP:
#include <iostream>
#include "bsp/bsp.h"
int main()
{
bsp_begin(bsp_nprocs());
int s = bsp_pid();
int p = bsp_nprocs();
printf("Hello World from processor %d / %d", s, p);
bsp_end();
return 0;
}
Compiled with:
g++ -I/mnt/d/study/software/bsp/include -g -lpthread -o main test.cpp
To my (quite limited) knowledge, the 'extern' in the header file should prevent the compiler from labelling the main as 'duplicate' of some sort. Im mostly interested in some of BSPs functionalities as part of a class of mine, that sadly does not include any support on the installation. What I've done so far:
Copied the include files from the repo
Added the include path to the compilation (-I Flag) and the -lpthread as instructed by the class script
Added the include path to the configuration (c_cpp_properties.json) [tested both with and without this, no difference]
Due to the many possible sources of that error (program, compiler, wsl, library, configuration, vs code, my stupidity) I cant determine where I am mistaken, nor am I able to find online resources to that combination.

Linking Error due to symbol(s) not found in Bjarne Stroustrup "Programming and Practices using c++"

I'm new to c++ (and compiled languages in general) and am doing the drill at the end of chapter 8 in Bjarne Stroustrup "Programming and Practices using c++" but I'm getting the following error when I try to compile the code
➜ Desktop g++ -std=c++11 *.cpp -o use
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"_foo", referenced from:
print_foo() in my-4f7853.o
_main in use-46cb26.o
(maybe you meant: __Z9print_foov)
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
I've also tried using g++ -c my.cpp use.cpp followed by g++ -o use.exe my.o use.o but this gave the same error. The other approach I tried was g++ -c use.cpp -o use.exe, however use.exe produced no output when it ran. The source code files are
my.h
extern int foo;
void print_foo();
void print_int(int);
my.cpp
#include "my.h"
#include <iostream>
void print_foo() {
std::cout << foo << '\n';
}
void print_int(int num) {
std::cout << num << '\n';
}
use.cpp
#include "my.h"
#include <iostream>
int main() {
std::cout<<"DSGFSGFSG"<< '\n';
foo = 7;
print_foo();
int i = 99;
print_int(i);
}
I've looked at other questions that are similar (if not seemingly the same is in Link-time errors in VS 2013 while compiling the C++ program - B. Stroustrup's PPP using C++: Ch. 8 - Q1 Drill?) but the solutions haven't worked for me. Is the problem to do with my compilation using g++ or have I made a more fundamental error?
The global variable foo is only declared in your header file.
extern int foo;
You also need to define it in my.cpp
int foo;
The declaration is a promise: "it exists somewhere".
The definition actually reserves some storage for this variable.
So your linker complains because some code relying on this
promise needs to access this missing storage.

Trivial Eigen3 Tensor program does not build without -On

I'm trying to build a write of software with the Tensor module provided as unsupported from eigen3. I've written a simple piece of code that will build with a simple application of VectorXd (just printing it to stdout), and will also build with an analogous application of Tensor in place of the VectorXd, but WILL NOT build when I do not throw an optimization flag (-On). Note that my build is from within a conda enviromnent that is using conda-forge compilers, so the g++ in what follows is the g++ obtained from conda forge for ubuntu. It says its name in the error messages following, if that is perceived to be the issue.
I have a feeling this is not about the program I'm trying to write, but just in case I've included an mwe.cpp that seems to produce the error. The code follows:
#include <eigen3/Eigen/Dense>
#include <eigen3/unsupported/Eigen/CXX11/Tensor>
#include <iostream>
using namespace Eigen;
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char const *argv[])
{
VectorXd v(6);
v << 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
cout << v.cwiseSqrt() << "\n";
Tensor<double, 1> t(6);
for (auto i=0; i<v.size(); i++){
t(i) = v(i);
}
cout << "\n";
for (auto i=0; i<t.size(); i++){
cout << t(i) << " ";
}
cout << "\n";
return 0;
}
If the above code is compiled without any optimizations, like:
g++ -I ~/miniconda3/envs/myenv/include/ mwe.cpp -o mwe
I get the following compiler error:
/home/myname/miniconda3/envs/myenv/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu/7.3.0/../../../../x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /tmp/cc2q8gj4.o: in function `Eigen::internal::(anonymous namespace)::get_random_seed()':
mwe.cpp:(.text+0x15): undefined reference to `clock_gettime'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
If instead I ask for 'n' optimization level, like the following:
g++ -I ~/miniconda3/envs/loos/include/ -On mwe.cpp -o mwe
The program builds without complaint and I get expected output:
$ ./mwe
1
1.41421
1.73205
2
2.23607
2.44949
1 2 3 4 5 6
I have no clue why this little program, or the real program I'm trying to write, would be trying to get a random seed for anything. Any advice would be appreciated. The reason why I would like to build without optimization is so that debugging is easier. I actually thought all this was being caused by debug flags, but I realized that my build tool's debug setting didn't ask for optimization and narrowed that down to the apparent cause. If I throw -g -O1 I do not see the error.
Obviously, if one were to comment out all the code that has to do with the Tensor module, that is everthing in main above 'return' and below the cwiseSqrt() line, and also the include statement, the code builds and produces expected output.
Technically, this is a linker error (g++ calls the compiler as well as the linker, depending on the command line arguments). And you get linker-errors if an externally defined function is called from somewhere, even if the code is never reached.
When compiling with optimizations enabled, g++ will optimize away uncalled functions (outside the global namespace), thus you get no linker errors. You may want to try -Og instead of -O1 for better debugging experience.
The following code should produce similar behavior:
int foo(); // externally defined
namespace { // anonymous namespace
// defined inside this module, but never called
int bar() {
return foo();
}
}
int main() {
// if you un-comment this line, the
// optimized version will fail as well:
// ::bar();
}
According to man clock_gettime you need to link with -lrt if your glibc version is older than 2.17 -- maybe that is the case for your setup:
g++ -I ~/miniconda3/envs/myenv/include/ mwe.cpp -o mwe -lrt

Can't run to_string() function on Linux

I've got some code that I'm running on Mac OS X that can't be compiled on the Virtual Machine running Linux Mint. This is a simple example. When I run it in Mac, all is fine, but I'm getting issues when I run the same code on Linux, so I'm assuming the library I'm including is not there, but should I be getting an include error then?
Here's the example code that runs on Mac.
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;
int main(){
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++){
string test = to_string(i);
cout << test << endl;
}
cout << "done" << endl;
return 0;
}
I get no issues here but running on Linux Mint, I get this when I try to compile:
for.cpp: In function 'int main()':
for.cpp:7:28 error: 'to_string' was not declared in this scope
string test = to_string(i);
^
make: *** [for] Error 1
Am I missing something? Any help would be much appreciated!
edit
I realize I forgot to include <string> on here and I fixed it, but what I changed (<string> included) still doesn't compile on Linux. I've used to_string before. I know that much in C++. I also tried adding <cstdlib>. Once again, this DOES compile on Mac and DOES NOT compile on Linux.
Here is my OSX output:
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
done
Here is my output on Linux Mint (Once again, Virtual Box, g++ make):
test.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
test.cpp:9:28: error: ‘to_string’ was not declared in this scope
string test = to_string(i);
^
make: *** [test] Error 1
You could reproduce the problem yourself if you don't believe me. It's the same code, you can see for yourself if you want.
Compile your for.cpp file like this:
g++ -std=c++11 for.cpp
and run it with:
./a.out
The support for the to_string function in the <string> header was added in the C++11 version of the language, so you need to tell GCC to use that version. You can use the c++0x flag too, for example:
g++ -std=c++0x for.cpp
And you don't have to worry about <cstdlib>, that has nothing to do with it...
to_string() is defined in <string> if you are compiling with C++11 (but is not defined, or unreliably defined as an extension feature, if you are compiling with an earlier version of C++).
Reference: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/to_string
SOLUTION:
I found a better solution. For some reason, I've read stdlib.h will not work on some linux systems. I used a different function to convert int to string.
on linux:
#include <stdio.h>
and then
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++){
char buffer[10];
sprintf(buffer,"%d",i);
string stringInt = buffer;
cout << stringInt << endl;
// do whatever you want with the string
}
edit
To the person that down voted my solution to this, here's a post from six years ago basically saying the same thing.

Why are std::stoi and std::array not compiling with g++ c++11?

I've been learning C++ and using the Terminal for the last couple of months. My code was compiling and running fine using g++ and C++11, but in the last couple of days it started giving errors and I have had problems compiling since. The only programs I can compile and run depend on older C++ standards.
The errors I first got related to #include < array > in the header file. Not sure why this happened, but I got around it by using boost/array instead. Another error I can't solve is with std::stoi. Both array and stoi should be in the C++11 standard library. I made the following simple code to demonstrate what's going on:
//
// stoi_test.cpp
//
// Created by ecg
//
#include <iostream>
#include <string> // stoi should be in here
int main() {
std::string test = "12345";
int myint = std::stoi(test); // using stoi, specifying in standard library
std::cout << myint << '\n'; // printing the integer
return(0);
}
Try to compile using ecg$ g++ -o stoi_trial stoi_trial.cpp -std=c++11
array.cpp:13:22: error: no member named 'stoi' in namespace 'std'; did you mean
'atoi'?
int myint = std::stoi(test);
~~~~~^~~~
atoi
/usr/include/stdlib.h:149:6: note: 'atoi' declared here
int atoi(const char *);
^
array.cpp:13:27: error: no viable conversion from 'std::string' (aka
'basic_string') to 'const char *'
int myint = std::stoi(test);
^~~~
/usr/include/stdlib.h:149:23: note: passing argument to parameter here
int atoi(const char *);
^
2 errors generated.
I also get these errors at compilation when using gcc or clang++ and with -std=gnu++11 (I guess they all depend on the same file structure). I also get the same error whether I specify std:: in the code, or if I specify using namespace std;
I worry that these issues arose because of the September Command Line Tools update via Xcode or because I installed boost and this somehow messed up my C++11 libraries. Hopefully there is a simple solution.
My system:
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-> dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.76) (based on LLVM 3.3svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0
Thread model: posix
Thanks for any insight you can offer.
clang has a weird stdlib, you need to add the following flag when you compile
-stdlib=libc++
your snippet works on my mac with
g++ -std=gnu++11 -stdlib=libc++ test.cpp -o test
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