I am working on MacOS and using homebrew to install libraries. The library that I am trying to get working is freeImage which installed just fine using homebrew.
In Clion to link library I edited CmakeLists.txt file to contain:
target_link_libraries(Tutorial_2 freeimage)
I get the following output when trying to compile:
ld: library not found for -lfreeimage
Never had issues with this using linux and not sure what i'm doing wrong here?
First, you need to find the installation path of this library by brew info freeimage. My example is /usr/local/Cellar/freeimage/3.18.0:
freeimage: stable 3.18.0 (bottled), HEAD
Library for FreeImage, a dependency-free graphics library
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeimage
/usr/local/Cellar/freeimage/3.18.0 (16 files, 29.9MB) *
then, modify your CMakeLists.txt to fix the problem:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.22)
project(libuv_clion C)
set(FREE_IMAGE_DIR /usr/local/Cellar/freeimage/3.18.0) # set the lib path
include_directories(${FREE_IMAGE_DIR}/include/) # include the lib
link_directories(${FREE_IMAGE_DIR}/lib/) # link the lib
set(CMAKE_C_STANDARD 11)
add_executable(libuv_clion main.c)
target_link_libraries(libuv_clion freeimage)
How can I link libxml on MinGW when using an omnetpp shell?
I am using omnetpp on a windows 10 machine.
My problem happens when I am trying to install the 3rd party package from here
I think that there is a problem in the Makefile failing to locate the libxml library
Following Rudi's answer (following the question) I changed the Makefile libxml path to I/mingw64/include/libxml2 but I still
get a undefined reference to 'xmlFunctionName' error (for many function names)
I tried to isolate the problem and to compile a sample of code from libxml2
Following the compilation guide: using gcc `xml2-config --cflags --libs` -o tree2 tree2.c
I got a fatal error: 'libxml/parser.h' file not found
When I replaced xml2-config --cflags --libs with -I/mingw64/include/libxml2
I got the same error as before undefined reference to 'xmlFunctionName'
what can I do to resolve that issue?
To this specific problem: libxml2 is actually already present as OMNET 5.x also uses it. All dependencies and tools are available in the tools/win64/mingw64 directory. The problem is that (for unknown reasons) the include file of the include/libxml2/libxml folder. The configure script correctly detects this and makes it available in the Makefile.inc as XML_CFLAGS= = -I/mingw64/include/libxml2
This must be added to the compiler flags for each file where you want to use the XML parser. (the library files are in the /mingw64/lib folder) so those are detected and can be used without additional config.
Generally, third party libraries should be available in the /mingw64/include and /mingw64/lib folders. You can either copy them manually there or try to install it with the mingw package manager (however that will most likely ruin your omnet installation as mingw64 is not particularly consistent and it is a rolling release - i.e. this is highly not recommended).
I try to get a pcl setup running on macOS 10.13.5 unsing homebrew.
I tried to install pcl with both techniques brew install pcl and brew install --build-from-source pcl
As dependencie vtk (8.1.1) is installed automatically and I can see that those libaries are installed in /usr/local.
But in the linking stage I get the following error:
ld: library not found for -lvtkCommon
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
If I check the list of installed libraries I can verify that there is not vtkCommon only a vtkCommonCore
In CMake I use the following lines to include PCL, the vtkCommon appears in the ${PCL_LIBRARIES} variable.
find_package(PCL REQUIRED COMPONENTS filters surface kdtree features segmentation)
list(APPEND include_directories ${PCL_INCLUDE_DIRS})
list(APPEND used_libraries ${PCL_LIBRARIES})
Does anyone know why this happens and how it can be solved?
As mentioned by #Tsyvarev the problem was that an a not match PCLConfig.cmake was existed alongside to the correct one, deleting that incorrect on solved the problem.
I have a library which is being generated as .a file (to be statically linked). There I want to include Qt framework (QtCore.framework) since I am on OSX. Is that possible? How could I do it using cmake?
My attempt:
In CMakeLists.txt I have
FIND_LIBRARY(QTCORE_LIBRARY NAMES QtCore
HINTS "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/osx/frameworks")
Then I print variable ${QTCORE_LIBRARY} and it gives right path.
Then in src/CMakeLists.txt (where my sources are) I link the library
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(libname $${QTCORE_LIBRARY})
However when I launch the compilation it complains because it does not find
fatal error: 'QtGlobal' file not found
I have checked and QtCore.framework contains QtGlobal header
EDIT: In case someone has same problem I found solution.
I needed to add "${QTCORE_LIBRARY}/Headers" in my project include directories
Thanks in advance and regards
Why don't using the CMake "config.cmake" provided by Qt5 ?
something like:
# Qt Setting
set(CMAKE_AUTOMOC ON)
set(CMAKE_AUTOUIC ON)
set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON)
find_package(Qt5 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Core Gui Widgets)
...
target_link_libraries(libname Qt5::Core Qt5::Gui Qt5::Widgets)
CMake can find and use [...] Qt5 libraries. [...] Qt5 libraries are found using “Config-file Packages” shipped with Qt5
src: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-qt.7.html
In order for find_package to be successful, Qt 5 must be found below the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH, or the Qt5_DIR must be set in the CMake cache to the location of the Qt5WidgetsConfig.cmake file. The easiest way to use CMake is to set the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH environment variable to the install prefix of Qt 5.
src: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/cmake-manual.html
I'm trying to configure a project using CMake, but it fails to find Boost libraries even though they are in the specified folder. I have specified Boost_INCLUDE_DIR, Boost_LIBRARYDIR and BOOST_ROOT , but I still get an error saying that CMake is not able to find Boost. What could be the reason of such error?
Are you sure you are doing it the correct way? The idea is that CMake sets BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR, BOOST_LIBRARYDIR and BOOST_ROOT automatically. Do something like this in CMakeLists.txt:
FIND_PACKAGE(Boost)
IF (Boost_FOUND)
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR})
ADD_DEFINITIONS( "-DHAS_BOOST" )
ENDIF()
If boost is not installed in a default location and can, thus, not be found by CMake, you can tell CMake where to look for boost like this:
SET(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH} "C:/win32libs/boost")
SET(CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH} "C:/win32libs/boost/lib")
Of course, those two lines have to be before the FIND_PACKAGE(Boost) in CMakeLists.txt.
There is more help available by reading the FindBoost.cmake file itself. It is located in your 'Modules' directory.
A good start is to set(Boost_DEBUG 1) - this will spit out a good deal of information about where boost is looking, what it's looking for, and may help explain why it can't find it.
It can also help you to figure out if it is picking up on your BOOST_ROOT properly.
FindBoost.cmake also sometimes has problems if the exact version of boost is not listed in the Available Versions variables. You can find more about this by reading FindBoost.cmake.
Lastly, FindBoost.cmake has had some bugs in the past. One thing you might try is to take a newer version of FindBoost.cmake out of the latest version of CMake, and stick it into your project folder alongside CMakeLists.txt - then even if you have an old version of boost, it will use the new version of FindBoost.cmake that is in your project's folder.
Good luck.
For me this error was simply because boost wasn't installed so on ubuntu:
sudo apt install build-essential libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev
I struggled with this problem for a while myself. It turned out that cmake was looking for Boost library files using Boost's naming convention, in which the library name is a function of the compiler version used to build it. Our Boost libraries were built using GCC 4.9.1, and that compiler version was in fact present on our system; however, GCC 4.4.7 also happened to be installed. As it happens, cmake's FindBoost.cmake script was auto-detecting the GCC 4.4.7 installation instead of the GCC 4.9.1 one, and thus was looking for Boost library files with "gcc44" in the file names, rather than "gcc49".
The simple fix was to force cmake to assume that GCC 4.9 was present, by setting Boost_COMPILER to "-gcc49" in CMakeLists.txt. With this change, FindBoost.cmake looked for, and found, my Boost library files.
You can also specify the version of Boost that you would like CMake to use by passing -DBOOST_INCLUDEDIR or -DBOOST_ROOT pointing to the location of correct version boost headers
Example:
cmake -DBOOST_ROOT=/opt/latestboost
This will also be useful when multiple boost versions are on the same system.
I also had a similar problem and discovered that the BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR, BOOST_LIBRARYDIR and BOOST_ROOT env variables must hold absolute paths.
HTH!
In my case Boost was not installed. I used below command on Mac and then cmake find_package(Boost) works like a charm
brew install Boost
Please note upper case 'B' in Boost!
If you are building your own boost do not forget to use the --layout=versioned otherwise the search for a particular version of library will fail
For cmake version 3.1.0-rc2 to pick up boost 1.57 specify -D_boost_TEST_VERSIONS=1.57
cmake version 3.1.0-rc2 defaults to boost<=1.56.0 as is seen using -DBoost_DEBUG=ON
cmake -D_boost_TEST_VERSIONS=1.57 -DBoost_DEBUG=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++
One more bit of advice for anyone trying to build CGAL in particular, with statically linked Boost. It is not enough to define Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS; it gets overridden by the time Boost_DEBUG outputs its value. The thing to do here is to check the "Advanced" checkbox and to enable CGAL_Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS.
I had the same problem while trying to run make for a project after installing Boost version 1.66.0 on Ubuntu Trusty64. The error message was similar to (not exactly like) this one:
CMake Error at
/usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.3.2/share/cmake/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:1245 (message):
Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.
Boost version: 0.0.0
Boost include path: /usr/include
Detected version of Boost is too old. Requested version was 1.36 (or newer).
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:10 (FIND_PACKAGE)
Boost was definitely installed, but CMake couldn't detect it. After spending plenty of time tinkering with paths and environmental variables, I eventually ended up checking cmake itself for options and found the following:
--check-system-vars = Find problems with variable usage in system files
So I ran the following in the directory at issue:
sudo cmake --check-system-vars
which returned:
Also check system files when warning about unused and uninitialized variables.
-- Boost version: 1.66.0
-- Found the following Boost libraries:
-- system
-- filesystem
-- thread
-- date_time
-- chrono
-- regex
-- serialization
-- program_options
-- Found Git: /usr/bin/git
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/user/myproject
and resolved the issue.
See FindBoost.cmake first. The variables you set are the correct ones but they should be all uppercase.
Make sure the library architecture matches with CMake configuration.
cmake -A x64 ..
I suggest creating a minimal executable which only includes a Boost library to see if it compiles.
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/date_time.hpp>
int main() {
using namespace std;
using namespace boost::gregorian;
date today = day_clock::local_day();
cout << today << endl;
}
find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS
date_time
)
include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR})
link_directories(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS})
add_executable(test_boost "test_boost.cpp")
target_link_libraries(test_boost Boost::date_time)
Start debugging by checking Boost_FOUND first.
message(STATUS "Boost_FOUND: ${Boost_FOUND}")
The version should be found even if no libraries are found. (Boost_VERSION)
If Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS becomes non-empty, it should compile.
I had the same problem, and none of the above solutions worked. Actually, the file include/boost/version.hpp could not be read (by the cmake script launched by jenkins).
I had to manually change the permission of the (boost) library (even though jenkins belongs to the group, but that is another problem linked to jenkins that I could not figure out):
chmod o+wx ${BOOST_ROOT} -R # allow reading/execution on the whole library
#chmod g+wx ${BOOST_ROOT} -R # this did not suffice, strangely, but it is another story I guess
This can also happen if CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH is set as different from BOOST_ROOT.
I faced the same issue that in spite of setting BOOST_ROOT, I was getting the error.
But for cross compiling for ARM I was using Toolchain-android.cmake in which I had (for some reason):
set(BOOST_ROOT "/home/.../boost")
set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} --sysroot=${SYSROOT}")
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} --sysroot=${SYSROOT} -I${SYSROOT}/include/libcxx")
set(CMAKE_CXX_LINK_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_LINK_FLAGS}")
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH "${SYSROOT}")
CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH seems to be overriding BOOST_ROOT which was causing the issue.
For those using python3.7 docker image, this solved:
apt install libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev
Maybe
brew install boost
will help you.