CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c++ccmakeclion
recoup8063
recoup8063

Reputation: 4280

CMake "undefined reference to function"

I am attempting to use CMake to link a library(BNO055 Driver). Since the BNO055 Driver doesn't use CMake and it hasn't been changed for about a year I decided to just download the source files and put them in my project.

I then use CMake to create a library and link it.

The issue is that the link does not seem to be working. When I compile the project I get a undefined reference to <function> error, where <function> is a function defined by the BNO055 driver.

Am I creating or linking the library incorrectly?
Do I need to do something else to define these functions?

For the sake of not pasting in 200 lines of code, here is a simplified main.cpp that produces the same error as the real main.cpp. If you would like to see the real main.cpp follow the link bellow to the Github repo 

#include "bno055.h"
#include "mraa.hpp"

struct bno055_t bno055;
mraa::I2c *i2c(0);

int main() {
    bno055_init(&bno055);
    i2c->address(0x29);
}

CMakeLists.txt 

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.4)
project(imc-server)

# CMake
# -- Config
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++11 -pthread")

# Global
# -- Include
include(ExternalProject)

# BNO055
# -- Include
include_directories(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/bno055)

set(SOURCE_FILES ${SOURCE_FILES}
        ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/bno055/bno055.h
        ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/bno055/bno055.c)

# MRAA
# -- Build
externalProject_add(mraa
        GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/mraa.git
        GIT_TAG        v0.7.5
)

# Compile
# -- Source
set(SOURCE_FILES ${SOURCE_FILES}
        main.cpp)

# -- Create
add_executable(imc-server ${SOURCE_FILES})
add_dependencies(imc-server mraa)

Relevant Part of Build Log 

[ 90%] Linking CXX executable imc-server
CMakeFiles/imc-server.dir/test.cpp.o: In function `main':
/home/noah/Documents/Inertial-Motion-Capture/imc-server/test.cpp:8: undefined reference to `bno055_init(bno055_t*)'
CMakeFiles/imc-server.dir/test.cpp.o: In function `mraa::I2c::address(unsigned char)':
/usr/local/include/mraa/i2c.hpp:99: undefined reference to `mraa_i2c_address'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [imc-server] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/imc-server.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Project Github(39a6196)
Build Log

Upvotes: 8

Views: 7840

Answers (2)

recoup8063
recoup8063

Reputation: 4280

The problem was that the BNO055 library was written in C, and my program was written in C++.

I learned that to use a function defined in a C program, in a C++ program, you have to wrap the include of the C library in an extern "C" {} block like so:

extern "C" {
    #include "bno055.h"
}
#include "mraa.hpp"

struct bno055_t bno055;
mraa::I2c *i2c(0);

int main() {
    bno055_init(&bno055);
    i2c->address(0x29);
}

Upvotes: 15

Th. Thielemann
Th. Thielemann

Reputation: 2825

Remove the header from your SOURCE_FILES.

set(SOURCE_FILES ${SOURCE_FILES}
        # ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/bno055/bno055.h
        ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/bno055/bno055.c)

CMake should find the required header by itself. Additional includes are found by include_directories

Upvotes: 0

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