Make Error: undefined reference to boost::program_options

[ahmedfarazkhan]

When I tried to make the project, I encountered two errors with destructor scope in I2CBus.cpp and MinIMU9.cpp that were resolved by including <unistd.h>. However, I now get a new error due to undefined references to functions from _boost::programoptions. I suspect this is a linking issue (I have installed boost on my system), but the makefile contains the line LDFLAGS += -lboost_program_options, so I'm not sure how to proceed. A snippet of the make output is included below:

minimu9-ahrs.o: In function `boost::program_options::variables_map::~variables_map()':
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text._ZN5boost15program_options13variables_mapD0Ev[_ZN5boost15program_options13variables_mapD0Ev]+0xe): undefined reference to `vtable for boost::program_options::variables_map'
minimu9-ahrs.o:(.rodata._ZTIN5boost15program_options20multiple_occurrencesE[_ZTIN5boost15program_options20multiple_occurrencesE]+0x10): undefined reference to `typeinfo for boost::program_options::error_with_option_name'
minimu9-ahrs.o:(.rodata._ZTIN5boost15program_options11typed_valueISscEE[_ZTIN5boost15program_options11typed_valueISscEE]+0x18): undefined reference to `typeinfo for boost::program_options::value_semantic_codecvt_helper<char>'
minimu9-ahrs.o:(.rodata._ZTVN5boost15program_options11typed_valueISscEE[_ZTVN5boost15program_options11typed_valueISscEE]+0x38): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::value_semantic_codecvt_helper<char>::parse(boost::any&, std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> > const&, bool) const'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [minimu9-ahrs] Error 1

[DavidEGrayson]

Sorry, I'm not sure what's going wrong, and I haven't tried compiling this code in a while. Could you show a little bit more output from Make so we can see the gcc command that is failing? In particular, I want to make sure that -lboost_program_options comes after the other things that are being linked in.

[ahmedfarazkhan]

This is the entire output:

g++ -lboost_program_options  minimu9-ahrs.o I2CBus.o L3G.o LSM303.o MinIMU9.o   -o minimu9-ahrs
minimu9-ahrs.o: In function `boost::program_options::typed_value<std::string, char>::xparse(boost::any&, std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> > const&) const':
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text._ZNK5boost15program_options11typed_valueISscE6xparseERNS_3anyERKSt6vectorISsSaISsEE[_ZNK5boost15program_options11typed_valueISscE6xparseERNS_3anyERKSt6vectorISsSaISsEE]+0x19): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::validate(boost::any&, std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> > const&, std::string*, int)'
minimu9-ahrs.o: In function `boost::program_options::typed_value<std::string, char>::name() const':
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text._ZNK5boost15program_options11typed_valueISscE4nameEv[_ZNK5boost15program_options11typed_valueISscE4nameEv]+0xd): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::arg'
minimu9-ahrs.o: In function `boost::program_options::basic_command_line_parser<char>::basic_command_line_parser(int, char const* const*)':
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text._ZN5boost15program_options25basic_command_line_parserIcEC2EiPKPKc[_ZN5boost15program_options25basic_command_line_parserIcEC5EiPKPKc]+0x1e0): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::to_internal(std::string const&)'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text._ZN5boost15program_options25basic_command_line_parserIcEC2EiPKPKc[_ZN5boost15program_options25basic_command_line_parserIcEC5EiPKPKc]+0x231): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::detail::cmdline::cmdline(std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> > const&)'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text._ZN5boost15program_options25basic_command_line_parserIcEC2EiPKPKc[_ZN5boost15program_options25basic_command_line_parserIcEC5EiPKPKc]+0x473): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::to_internal(std::string const&)'
minimu9-ahrs.o: In function `boost::program_options::basic_command_line_parser<char>::run()':
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text._ZN5boost15program_options25basic_command_line_parserIcE3runEv[_ZN5boost15program_options25basic_command_line_parserIcE3runEv]+0x1d): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::detail::cmdline::get_canonical_option_prefix()'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text._ZN5boost15program_options25basic_command_line_parserIcE3runEv[_ZN5boost15program_options25basic_command_line_parserIcE3runEv]+0x55): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::detail::cmdline::run()'
minimu9-ahrs.o: In function `boost::program_options::variables_map::~variables_map()':
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text._ZN5boost15program_options13variables_mapD2Ev[_ZN5boost15program_options13variables_mapD5Ev]+0xe): undefined reference to `vtable for boost::program_options::variables_map'
minimu9-ahrs.o: In function `main':
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x1b): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::options_description::m_default_line_length'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x72): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::options_description::options_description(std::string const&, unsigned int, unsigned int)'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x147): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::options_description::add_options()'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x161): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::options_description_easy_init::operator()(char const*, char const*)'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x173): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::options_description_easy_init::operator()(char const*, char const*)'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x188): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::options_description_easy_init::operator()(char const*, boost::program_options::value_semantic const*, char const*)'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x19d): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::options_description_easy_init::operator()(char const*, boost::program_options::value_semantic const*, char const*)'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x1b2): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::options_description_easy_init::operator()(char const*, boost::program_options::value_semantic const*, char const*)'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x1f0): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::variables_map::variables_map()'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x214): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::detail::cmdline::set_options_description(boost::program_options::options_description const&)'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x243): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::store(boost::program_options::basic_parsed_options<char> const&, boost::program_options::variables_map&, bool)'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x265): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::notify(boost::program_options::variables_map&)'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x2c3): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::operator<<(std::ostream&, boost::program_options::options_description const&)'
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text.startup+0x7d4): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::error_with_option_name::get_canonical_option_name() const'
minimu9-ahrs.o: In function `boost::program_options::variables_map::~variables_map()':
minimu9-ahrs.cpp:(.text._ZN5boost15program_options13variables_mapD0Ev[_ZN5boost15program_options13variables_mapD0Ev]+0xe): undefined reference to `vtable for boost::program_options::variables_map'
minimu9-ahrs.o:(.rodata._ZTIN5boost15program_options20multiple_occurrencesE[_ZTIN5boost15program_options20multiple_occurrencesE]+0x10): undefined reference to `typeinfo for boost::program_options::error_with_option_name'
minimu9-ahrs.o:(.rodata._ZTIN5boost15program_options11typed_valueISscEE[_ZTIN5boost15program_options11typed_valueISscEE]+0x18): undefined reference to `typeinfo for boost::program_options::value_semantic_codecvt_helper<char>'
minimu9-ahrs.o:(.rodata._ZTVN5boost15program_options11typed_valueISscEE[_ZTVN5boost15program_options11typed_valueISscEE]+0x38): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::value_semantic_codecvt_helper<char>::parse(boost::any&, std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> > const&, bool) const'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [minimu9-ahrs] Error 1

[DavidEGrayson]

Hey, sorry for forgetting about this.

Could you try running this in your terminal after you get the error message above?

g++ minimu9-ahrs.o I2CBus.o L3G.o LSM303.o MinIMU9.o -lboost_program_options -o minimu9-ahrs

Moving the library to the end will probably allow G++ to find those symbols. I'm not sure why the code compiled fine for me the last time I checked, and I'm not sure why you are the only one who has reported this.

[vishalkumarchaudhary]

Can we make this on cpu not gpu ?

[DavidEGrayson]

minimu9-ahrs does not use the GPU. You might be thinking of it's sister project, which is called ahrs-visualizer, and uses the GPU. Either way, your post is off topic for this thread since it has nothing to do with the original issue at the top.