I am trying to get a simple boost.log example running on Linux using GCC 4.4.5, CMake 2.8.2 and Boost 1.53.0.
Compiling boost and boost log succeeded, but I keep getting issues when linking my test program to boost.log.
I use the following CMakeLists.txt file:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
project(QuantibBoostLogTest)
# Include boost headers
set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)
set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON)
find_package(Threads)
find_package(Boost 1.53.0 COMPONENTS thread date_time filesystem system log log_setup REQUIRED)
if(Boost_FOUND)
include_directories( ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS} )
link_libraries(${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT} ${Boost_LIBRARIES})
else(Boost_FOUND)
message(FATAL_ERROR "Cannot build Quantib Boost Log test without Boost. Please set Boost_DIR.")
endif(Boost_FOUND)
add_executable(quantibBoostLogTest boost_log_test.cxx)
install(TARGETS quantibBoostLogTest DESTINATION .)
CMake does detect the boost libraries correctly, but I still get linker errors, mostly of the form:
core.cpp:(.text+0x1b0e): undefined reference to `boost::detail::get_tss_data(void const*)'
I do link the thread libraries. Does anybody know how to solve this?
It seems like boost.log depends on boost.thread library then you need change order of libraries. See why link order does matter
Try following order
find_package(Boost 1.53.0 COMPONENTS log log_setup thread date_time filesystem system REQUIRED)
if it will not help try include them two times as following
link_libraries(${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT} ${Boost_LIBRARIES} ${Boost_LIBRARIES})
The linker error you give has something to do with either not linking against a native threading library like pthreads and/or boost_thread. (or both)
1)
From what I see you don't link against pthreads library.
By merely calling a CMake custom module that tries to find the library doesn't mean it'll also link against it.
Try and do:
SET(CMAKE_THREAD_PREFER_PTHREAD true)
FIND_PACKAGE (Threads)
IF(Threads_FOUND)
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(SYSTEM ${Threads_INCLUDE_DIR})
MESSAGE("Are we using pthreads? ${CMAKE_USE_PTHREADS_INIT}")
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${PROJECT_NAME} ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
ENDIF()
Check the FindThreads.cmake file of the CMake installation you have for more information regarding the use of the threads module.
You can usually find it in /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/
2) Maybe the ordering of the linked Boost libraries is incorrect or the version you specified for Boost is invalid.
Try changing the boost version or don't specify it at all or change the order of the linked libraries
SET(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)
SET(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON)
FIND_PACKAGE(Boost 1.53.0 COMPONENTS **system thread filesystem date_time log log_setup** REQUIRED)
IF(Boost_FOUND)
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(SYSTEM ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR})
LINK_DIRECTORIES(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIR})
MESSAGE("Boost information")
MESSAGE("Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS: ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}")
MESSAGE("Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS: ${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS}")
MESSAGE("Boost Libraries: ${Boost_LIBRARIES}")
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${PROJECT_NAME} ${Boost_LIBRARIES})
ENDIF()
(The second contention might be completely wrong as I think the ordering of the elements specified after COMPONENTS in FIND_PACKAGE doesn't matter)
Related
I try to include the current version of the Boost library into my cmake file. But I 'm struggle with the full include. I have already included the boost::filesystem library. So I hope this is not a big change in the code.
Here my Cmake include that works for me:
#include boost
#===========================================================================
set(Boost_INCLUDE_DIR "/Volumes/Code/boost_1_79_0")
set(Boost_LIBRARY_DIR "/Volumes/Code/boost_1_79_0/stage/lib")
find_package(Boost
1.79.0 REQUIRED
COMPONENTS
filesystem
)
if(NOT Boost_FOUND)
message(FATAL_ERROR "Boost Not found")
else()
message(STATUS "Boost version ${Boost_VERSION} found")
endif()
include_directories(include)
include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR})
target_link_libraries(${EXECUTABLE}
PUBLIC
Boost::filesystem)
#===========================================================================
Then I tried that and it failed:
#include boost
#===========================================================================
set(Boost_INCLUDE_DIR "/Volumes/Code/boost_1_79_0")
set(Boost_LIBRARY_DIR "/Volumes/Code/boost_1_79_0/stage/lib")
find_package(Boost
1.79.0 REQUIRED
COMPONENTS
filesystem
optional
)
if(NOT Boost_FOUND)
message(FATAL_ERROR "Boost Not found")
else()
message(STATUS "Boost version ${Boost_VERSION} found")
endif()
include_directories(include)
include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR})
target_link_libraries(${EXECUTABLE}
PUBLIC
Boost::filesystem
Boost::optional)
#===========================================================================
Does anyone know a way to integrate all Boost Libraries without listing them or sees my mistake?
If someone has suggestions for improvements, feel free to teaching me.
set(Boost_INCLUDE_DIR "/Volumes/Code/boost_1_79_0")
set(Boost_LIBRARY_DIR "/Volumes/Code/boost_1_79_0/stage/lib")
That's not how you should use CMake: your solution just hardcodes paths, and the whole idea of CMake is that you can take a CMake project and build it on a different machine, where paths and necessary flags are different.
So, delete that altogether. You want to have
set(BOOST_REQUIRED_COMPONENTS
filesystem
optional
)
set(BOOST_MIN_VERSION 1.79.0) # or whatever you need!
# Here you can either append or set a root to look into
# In general, **don't do that**! Your boost build and installation
# should come with the correct CMake configure scripts to automate this!
# If you set it here, the people trying to build your code on a different
# machine **WILL** hate you.
# set(BOOST_ROOT "/Volumes/Code/boost_1_79_0")
find_package(
Boost ${BOOST_MIN_VERSION} REQUIRED
COMPONENTS ${BOOST_REQUIRED_COMPONENTS}
)
target_link_libraries(${EXECUTABLE} PUBLIC
Boost::filesystem
Boost::optional
)
target_include_directories(${EXECUTABLE} PRIVATE include)
You whole setting include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR}) is redundant (and a bad idea); target_link_libraries( ... Boost::...) does that automatically.
Does anyone know a way to integrate all Boost Libraries without listing them or sees my mistake?
You don't do that, or your linking takes forever, you produce, under circumstances, gigantic object files and executables, and all for the advantage of not having to write down each Boost component as you use them, in a single place!
So, you could use the ALL meta-compoent (which was introduced by Boost 1.73), but I'd strongly encourage you not to do that.
I have been trying to run a Qt project in a CMake environment. The Qt project is using openCV and Boost dependencies. After successfully solving all compiling errors, I have been struggling with a Boost error.
As soon as I run CMake I get the following error:
Running "/usr/bin/cmake /home/labrat/Desktop/cam-proc '-GCodeBlocks - Unix Makefiles'" in /home/labrat/Desktop/cam-proc/build.
**CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1677 (message):**
Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.
Boost version: 1.58.0
Boost include path: /usr/include
Could not find the following Boost libraries:
boost_lboost_thread
Some (but not all) of the required Boost libraries were found. You may
need to install these additional Boost libraries. Alternatively, set
BOOST_LIBRARYDIR to the directory containing Boost libraries or BOOST_ROOT
to the location of Boost.
**Call Stack (most recent call first):
src/libCam/CMakeLists.txt:7 (find_package)**
Boost version: 1.58.0
Found the following Boost libraries:
system
thread
filesystem
chrono
date_time
atomic
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/labrat/Desktop/cam-proc/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/home/labrat/Desktop/cam-proc/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
*** cmake process exited with exit code 1.
I analyzed the error given CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1677 (message): and opened the enormous FindBoost.cmake file and here is the part where the error is, according to the warning, located:
message(SEND_ERROR "Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.\n${Boost_ERROR_REASON}")
# Add pthread library on UNIX if thread component was found
_Boost_consider_adding_pthreads(Boost_LIBRARIES ${Boost_LIBRARIES})
else()
if(Boost_FIND_REQUIRED)
message(SEND_ERROR "Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.\n${Boost_ERROR_REASON}")
else()
if(NOT Boost_FIND_QUIETLY)
# we opt not to automatically output Boost_ERROR_REASON here as
# it could be quite lengthy and somewhat imposing in its requests
# Since Boost is not always a required dependency we'll leave this
# up to the end-user.
if(Boost_DEBUG OR Boost_DETAILED_FAILURE_MSG)
message(STATUS "Could NOT find Boost\n${Boost_ERROR_REASON}")
else()
message(STATUS "Could NOT find Boost")
endif()
endif()
endif()
endif()
Also since another part of the error message said Call Stack (most recent call first): src/libCam/CMakeLists.txt:7 (find_package) here I am attaching the CMakeLists.txt realted to the libcam project if that's helpful:
cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.8.12)
project(libCam)
find_package(Qt5Widgets REQUIRED)
find_package(OpenCV REQUIRED)
find_package(Boost COMPONENTS filesystem lboost_thread system REQUIRED)
find_package(Boost COMPONENTS system thread filesystem REQUIRED)
find_package(Qt5PrintSupport REQUIRED)
###
# make sure we use c++11
###
include(CheckCXXCompilerFlag)
CHECK_CXX_COMPILER_FLAG("-std=c++11" COMPILER_SUPPORTS_CXX11)
CHECK_CXX_COMPILER_FLAG("-std=c++0x" COMPILER_SUPPORTS_CXX0X)
if(COMPILER_SUPPORTS_CXX11)
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++11")
elseif(COMPILER_SUPPORTS_CXX0X)
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++0x")
else()
message(STATUS "The compiler ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER} has no C++11 support. Please use a different C++ compiler.")
endif()
set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)
set(CMAKE_AUTOUIC ON)
set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_CURRENT_DIR ON)
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES( ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR} )
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${Qt5Widgets_INCLUDE_DIRS})
include_regular_expression("^([^b]|b[^o]|bo[^o]|boo[^s]|boos[^t]|boost[^/]).*$")
qt5_wrap_ui (UIS_HDRS qtinclude/imagemanager.ui qtinclude/stereomanager.ui qtinclude/stereolistwidget.ui qtinclude/connectionmenu.ui)
file(GLOB LIBCAM_SRCS
"include/*.h"
"include/*.cpp"
"include/*.hpp"
"qtinclude/*.h"
"qtinclude/*.cpp"
"qtinclude/*.hpp"
)
file(GLOB UI_RC
"qtinclude/qdarkstyle/*.qrc"
)
add_library(libCam SHARED ${LIBCAM_SRCS} ${UIS_HDRS} ${UI_RC})
target_include_directories (libCam PUBLIC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} )
target_link_libraries (libCam Qt5::Widgets Qt5::PrintSupport Qt5::Core Qt5::Quick Qt5::Sql Qt5::XmlPatterns ${Boost_LIBRARIES} ${OpenCV_LIBS} )
I have been googling the error for the past two days looking for information and code to solve this problem, but I am running out of ideas. I tried to download boost 1.55 but it didn't work as the compiler only sees boost 1.58.
Any idea on how to shed light on this matter? Is there something I am leaving out?
The problem is the line
find_package(Boost COMPONENTS filesystem lboost_thread system REQUIRED)
which should be changed to
find_package(Boost COMPONENTS filesystem thread system REQUIRED)
or simply deleted, since it is then equivalent to the following line.
i am using Jetbrains CLion 2017.3 and the bundled CMake version 3.9.6 with mingw64 5.0 version/g++ 7.1.
Although reading the "Mastering CMake" ( i am new to CMake !) i have many difficulties to understand the basics. Since 3 days i am searching for a CMake solution to create a own header-only library that uses the boost (1.66.0 ) libraries.
Using my CMakeLists.txt results in finding the boost libraries, but i cannot include boost headers in a header file from my current source directory.
My current source diretory contains the "CMakeLists.txt" and the header file
"test_boost.h".
If i try to include boost headers in the header file "test_boost.h", boost headers cannot be found !
What i am doing wrong ?
My CMakeLists.txt :
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.9)
project(headerOnlyLib1)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
set(ENV{BOOST_ROOT} "C:/dev/boost/mingw/boost_1_66_0/boost")
set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON) # only find static libs
set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON)
set(Boost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME OFF)
find_package(BOOST 1.66 REQUIRED)
IF (Boost_FOUND)
message(STATUS "BOOST FOUND !")
ELSE()
message(STATUS "BOOST NOT Found !")
endif()
add_library(headerOnlyLib INTERFACE)
target_include_directories(headerOnlyLib INTERFACE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR})
target_include_directories(headerOnlyLib INTERFACE ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
target_link_libraries(headerOnlyLib ${Boost_LIBRARIES})
Short answer: You can't.
A "header-only library" is just that, one or more headers, only. It's not something that is linked or really stand-alone.
If your header-only library have dependencies, then the users of your library also have those dependencies and need to include them in their own build.
I think that you can, but you need to be more specific in defining your boost dependencies.
For example, the CMakeLists.txt file here depends upon boost::system for boost::asio. The dependency is defined as follows:
find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS system)
if(Boost_FOUND)
target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
# Boost::asio is header only but it requires Boost::system
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} INTERFACE Boost::system)
.
.
.
endif(Boost_FOUND)
In your case, the target is Boost::boost for header-only dependencies, see FindBoost. So the relevant part becomes:
find_package(Boost 1.66 REQUIRED COMPONENTS boost)
IF (Boost_FOUND)
message(STATUS "BOOST FOUND !")
target_include_directories(headerOnlyLib INTERFACE ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
ELSE()
message(STATUS "BOOST NOT Found !")
endif()
I recommend watching Daniel Pfeifer's talk at C++ Now 2017 for more information.
A lot has changed since "Mastering CMake" was written...
I am trying to add Boost library to my project using the CMakeLists.txt in the follwing way:
set(BOOST_INCLUDEDIR "C:/boost_1_57_0")
set(BOOST_LIBRARYDIR "C:/boost_1_57_0/stage/lib")
find_package(Boost 1.57.0 COMPONENTS filesystem)
include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
add_executable(test test.cpp)
target_link_libraries(test ${Boost_LIBRARIES})
However, I get the followng error: LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_filesystem-vc120-mt-1_57.lib'
libboost_filesystem-vc120-mt-1_57.lib is located in the stage/lib folder, so I don't know what is going on. I am compiling with Visual Studio 2013.
Any thoughts?
Try setting the Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS and Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED CMake variables to ON before using find_package, i.e.:
set( Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON )
set( Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON )
find_package( Boost 1.57.0 COMPONENTS filesystem )
I've come across this problem before and it seems as though, on multithreaded windows systems, the Boost bootstrap installer compiles multithreaded, static libraries by default. However, the CMake FindBoost script (which is used by find_package) searches for single-threaded, dynamic libraries by default.
Since you're using VS compiler I'll say you're working on Windows.
The error refers to the linker, which is failing to find boost libraries, as noticed.
Taking into account that the library exists in the boost path, my solution was to do a file(COPY) for the specific library, as a last resort.
if(WIN32)
set(BOOST_ROOT "C:/boost_1_57_0")
set(BOOST_LIBRARYDIR ${BOOST_ROOT}/stage/lib/)
endif()
find_package(Boost 1.57.0 EXACT REQUIRED system filesystem)
if(Boost_FOUND)
message(STATUS "found boost, Boost_LIBRARIES <" ${Boost_LIBRARIES} ">")
include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
link_directories(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS})
set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON)
set(Boost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME OFF)
else()
message(STATUS "boost not found")
endif()
target_link_libraries(boost_test ${Boost_LIBRARIES})
file(COPY "${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS}/boost_filesystem-vc120-mt-1_57.dll" DESTINATION "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}")
You may add some log messages to the CMake in order to know the values returned in the
find_package.
Make sure the architecture (x64) matches.
$ cmake -A x64 ..
Use link_directories command before adding executables just like include_directories.
link_directories(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS})
I want to static link boost.asio to my small project without external libs (having only single exe/bin file in result to distribute it). Boost.asio requires Boost.system and i start to drown trying to figure out how to compile this all.
How to use Boost.asio with cmake?
If I understand the actual question, it is fundamentally asking how to statically link against 3rd party libraries in CMake.
In my environment, I have installed Boost to /opt/boost.
The easiest way is to use FindBoost.cmake provided in a CMake installation:
set(BOOST_ROOT /opt/boost)
set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)
find_package(Boost COMPONENTS system)
include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR})
add_executable(example example.cpp)
target_link_libraries(example ${Boost_LIBRARIES})
A variant that finds all Boost libraries and explicitly links against the system library:
set(BOOST_ROOT /opt/boost)
set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)
find_package(Boost REQUIRED)
include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR})
add_executable(example example.cpp)
target_link_libraries(example ${Boost_SYSTEM_LIBRARY})
If you do not have a proper Boost installation, then there are two approaches to statically link against the libraries. The first approach creates an imported CMake target:
add_library(boost_system STATIC IMPORTED)
set_property(TARGET boost_system PROPERTY
IMPORTED_LOCATION /opt/boost/lib/libboost_system.a
)
include_directories(/opt/boost/include)
add_executable(example example.cpp)
target_link_libraries(example boost_system)
And the alternative is to explicitly list the library in target_link_libraries rather than the target:
include_directories(/opt/boost/include)
add_executable(example example.cpp)
target_link_libraries(example /opt/boost/lib/libboost_system.a)