📅 2014-May-02 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ error, linker ⬩ 📚 Archive
I was compiling some C++ and CUDA code using CMake on Ubuntu 14.04. The linking stage threw up this error:
/usr/bin/ld: foobar.cpp.o: undefined reference to symbol '__cxa_free_exception@@CXXABI_1.3'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
I had used these same source and CMake files without any compile error on a Ubuntu 12.04 system.
Ubuntu 14.04 uses newer versions of the GCC compilers and libraries. The hint here is that its complaining about a core C++ symbol: __cxa_free_exception
. Suggesting the linker to link with the standard C++ library fixed this error. You can do this by adding -lstdc++
to the linker invocation.
For my CMake, I did this by adding -lstdc++
to the linking options to the target as:
target_link_libraries(
foobar
-lsomelibrary
-lstdc++
)
Tried with: GCC 4.8.2, CMake 2.8.12.2 and Ubuntu 14.04