Linking boost::filesystem on Ubuntu 13.04

Question

I am trying to link a project to boost:filesystem on Ubuntu 13.04 and I am geting some weird linking errors in the last stage.

The build configuration is done via cmake:

find_package(Boost COMPONENTS system filesystem program_options REQUIRED )
include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR})
link_directories(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIR})

target_link_libraries(${YARS_TARGET} yarsLib GLEW GL GLU glut m dl xerces-c ode ${Boost_LIBRARIES})

I tried using a different boost version. For 1.49 and 1.53 I have the same behaviour. On Ubuntu 12.04 it does work just dine and on my development machine running Archlinux with boost 1.53 it compiles, links and runs just fine.

/usr/bin/g++   -O3    CMakeFiles/yars.dir/yarsMain.o  -o ../bin/yars  
-L/home/vagrant/local/lib -rdynamic ../lib/libyarsLib.a -lGLEW -lGL -lGLU 
-lglut -lm -ldl -lxerces-c -lode -lboost_system 
-lboost_filesystem -lboost_program_options 
../lib/libsensorLib.a ../lib/libenvironmentLib.a ../lib/libutilLib.a ../lib/libutilFilterLib.a ../lib/libutilFormatLib.a ../lib/libutilFunctionGeneratorLib.a ../lib/libutilIoLib.a ../lib/libutilMathLib.a ../lib/libutilDefineLib.a ../lib/libdescriptionLib.a ../lib/libfilterDescriptionLib.a ../lib/libfunctionGeneratorDescriptionLib.a ../lib/libfunctionGeneratorDescriptionUtilLib.a ../lib/libbioDescriptionLib.a ../lib/libsensorsDescriptionLib.a ../lib/libyarsDirectoriesModel.a -Wl,-rpath,/home/vagrant/local/lib: 
    ../lib/libutilIoLib.a(FileSystemOperations.o):
In function `FileSystemOperations::doesDirExist(boost::filesystem::path)':
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x27): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x3a): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    ../lib/libutilIoLib.a(FileSystemOperations.o): In function `FileSystemOperations::doesFileExist(boost::filesystem::path)':
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x67): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x7a): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    ../lib/libutilIoLib.a(FileSystemOperations.o): In function `FileSystemOperations::doesDirExist(std::string*)':
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0xca): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    ../lib/libutilIoLib.a(FileSystemOperations.o):FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0xdf): more undefined references to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)' follow
    ../lib/libutilIoLib.a(FileSystemOperations.o): In function `FileSystemOperations::getFirstExistingDirContainingDir(std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> >, std::string*)':
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x2c3): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::root_directory() const'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x35e): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x373): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x403): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::operator/=(boost::filesystem::path const&)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x43b): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x453): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x50d): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x564): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    ../lib/libutilIoLib.a(FileSystemOperations.o): In function `FileSystemOperations::getFirstExistingDirContainingFile(std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> >, std::string*)':
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x7e3): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::root_directory() const'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x87e): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x893): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x923): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::operator/=(boost::filesystem::path const&)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x95b): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x973): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0xa2d): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0xa84): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    ../lib/libutilIoLib.a(FileSystemOperations.o): In function `FileSystemOperations::getFirstExistingDir(std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> >)':
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0xd53): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    ../lib/libutilIoLib.a(FileSystemOperations.o):FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0xd68): more undefined references to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)' follow
    ../lib/libutilIoLib.a(FileSystemOperations.o): In function `FileSystemOperations::checkValidPath(std::string*, bool, bool, std::string)':
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x1100): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::initial_path(boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x1124): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::operator/=(boost::filesystem::path const&)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x11e9): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::root_directory() const'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x1237): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x130a): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x131f): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x137b): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::system_complete(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x13dc): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    ../lib/libutilIoLib.a(FileSystemOperations.o): In function `FileSystemOperations::checkValidPathFromAlternatives(std::string*, std::string*, std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> >*, bool, std::string)':
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x1635): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::root_directory() const'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x1699): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::operator/=(boost::filesystem::path const&)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x16d0): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::system_complete(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    FileSystemOperations.cpp:(.text+0x173f): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Answer 1

Just a suggestion:

1)Check that your boost library contains required symbols, you can use something like this: nm -D /usr/lib64/libboost_filesystem.so.1.52.0 | grep detail | c++filt | grep your names

2)Try to change order of linking library, for example put -lboost_bla-bla-bla to the end of command line, and run this command with g++ again, not use make or something, just copy paste command and make experiments with it.

Answer 2

I was facing errors like:

filename.cpp:(.text+0x389): undefined reference to boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
filename.cpp:(.text+0x39c): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::file_size(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
obj/x86_64/release/filename.cpp.o: In function `readFromFileNotForm(boost::filesystem::path&, char*, unsigned int)':
filename.cpp:(.text+0x1291): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
obj/x86_64/release/filename.cpp.o: In function `readFromFileForm(boost::filesystem::path&, std::vector<unsigned int, std::allocator<unsigned int> >&)':
filename.cpp:(.text+0x167a): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status(boost::filesystem::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'

Other solutions did not work. I wrote this in my cpp file:

#include "boost/filesystem/v3/operations.hpp"

And the problem went away. I guess, it was not able to include it automatically. I also tried with v2, but that did not work, I had to do v3.