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kaios
kaios

Reputation: 422

Cgo can't find standard libraries like <iostream>

I'm trying to include C++ code in my Go code, but isn't recognized.

I first thought that it considers it as C code and try (and fail) to compile as such, but removing the include line actually gives me c++ error troubleshooting like this error: ‘cout’ is not a member of ‘std’ The code compiles correctly with g++.

I have tried to add the -lstdc++ LDLFLAG, and add the path to the lib in CXXFLAG but it doesn't change a thing.

I have made some other tests (and all fail) but this is the smallest one.

This is the c++ files

test.cpp

#include "test.hpp"
    int test() 
    {
        std::cout << "Hello, World! ";
        return 0;
    }

test.hpp 
#include <iostream>
int test() ;

And this is my go file

//#cgo CXXFLAGS: -I/usr/lib/
//#cgo LDFLAGS: -L/usr/lib/ -lstdc++
//#include "test.hpp"
import "C"

func main() {
    C.test()
}

I compile using go build but I have also tried to use env CGO_ENABLED CGO_CXXFLAGS="-std=c++11" go build (the env part is fish specific) and it returns the same error.

It's supposed to compile correctly, but instead I have iostream: No such file or directory.

EDIT : I tried to add CFLAGS: -x c++ as suggested in the comments, the compiler searches at the right place, but I get another error invalid conversion from ‘void*’ to ‘_cgo_96e70225d9dd_Cfunc_test(void*)::<unnamed struct>*’ [-fpermissive] and I don't know if it's related to this new flafg

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2597

Answers (1)

georgeok
georgeok

Reputation: 5696

cgo makes it very easy to wrap C with Go, but C++ is a bit different. You have to extern "C" the functions that you want to make a function-name in C++ have 'C' linkage, otherwise the linker won't see the function. So, the actual problem is in the C++ header file. If you can't change the C++ code because it's a library, you may have to write wrappers (example).

This will compile:

.
├── test.cpp
├── test.go
└── test.hpp

test.hpp

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

    int test();
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

test.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include "test.hpp"
int test() {
    std::cout << "Hello, World! ";
    return 0;
}

test.go

package main

// #cgo CXXFLAGS: -I/usr/lib/
// #cgo LDFLAGS: -L/usr/lib/ -lstdc++
// #include "test.hpp"
import "C"

func main() {
    C.test()
}

Put the files in the same folder, run go build

Hello, World!

Upvotes: 5

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