Trouble Adding Boost #300

amirmasoudabdol · 2021-11-26T15:57:01Z

amirmasoudabdol
Nov 26, 2021

I see that in the README file, we are suppose to add Boost from a very specific repo, however the Boost that they are offering is very old. Also, it seems like that Boost now supports CMake, so, I thought it would be fine to add it using the CPM, but I am not sure if it is working because I'm getting linker issues. Here is my CPM command

cpmaddpackage(
  NAME
  Boost
  VERSION
  1.78.0
  OPTIONS
  "BUILD_TESTING OFF"
  GITHUB_REPOSITORY
  "boostorg/boost"
  GIT_TAG
  "boost-1.78.0.beta1")

and here is CMake's output,

-- The CXX compiler identification is AppleClang 13.0.0.13000029
-- The C compiler identification is AppleClang 13.0.0.13000029
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Found Git: /opt/homebrew/bin/git (found version "2.34.1")
-- Submodule update
-- CPM: adding package [email protected] (boost-1.78.0.beta1)
-- Boost: static libraries, MPI OFF, Python OFF, testing OFF
-- Looking for pthread.h
-- Looking for pthread.h - found
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Performing Test BOOST_ATOMIC_TARGET_X86
-- Performing Test BOOST_ATOMIC_TARGET_X86 - Failed
-- Boost.Context: architecture arm64, binary format mach-o, ABI aapcs, assembler gas, suffix .S, implementation fcontext
-- The ASM compiler identification is Clang with GNU-like command-line
-- Found assembler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc
-- Boost.Fiber: NUMA target OS is none
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_INIT_PRIORITY
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_INIT_PRIORITY - Success
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_CXX20_ATOMIC_REF
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_CXX20_ATOMIC_REF - Failed
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STAT_ST_BLKSIZE
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STAT_ST_BLKSIZE - Success
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STAT_ST_MTIM
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STAT_ST_MTIM - Failed
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STAT_ST_MTIMENSEC
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STAT_ST_MTIMENSEC - Failed
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STAT_ST_MTIMESPEC
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STAT_ST_MTIMESPEC - Success
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STAT_ST_BIRTHTIMENSEC
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STAT_ST_BIRTHTIMENSEC - Failed
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STAT_ST_BIRTHTIMESPEC
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STAT_ST_BIRTHTIMESPEC - Success
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STATX
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STATX - Failed
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STATX_SYSCALL
-- Performing Test BOOST_FILESYSTEM_HAS_STATX_SYSCALL - Failed
-- Found ZLIB: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.0.sdk/usr/lib/libz.tbd (found version "1.2.11")
-- Found BZip2: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.0.sdk/usr/lib/libbz2.tbd (found version "1.0.8")
-- Found LibLZMA: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.0.sdk/usr/lib/liblzma.tbd (found version "5.2.5")
-- Performing Test BOOST_IOSTREAMS_HAS_LZMA_CPUTHREADS
-- Performing Test BOOST_IOSTREAMS_HAS_LZMA_CPUTHREADS - Failed
-- Boost.Iostreams: ZLIB ON, BZip2 ON, LZMA ON, Zstd ON
-- Performing Test Iconv_IS_BUILT_IN
-- Performing Test Iconv_IS_BUILT_IN - Failed
-- Found Iconv: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.0.sdk/usr/lib/libiconv.tbd (found version "1.11")
-- Boost.Locale: iconv ON, ICU OFF, POSIX ON, std ON, winapi OFF
-- Performing Test BOOST_LOG_TARGET_X86
-- Performing Test BOOST_LOG_TARGET_X86 - Failed
-- Performing Test BOOST_LOG_HAS_LOCK_FREE_ATOMIC_INT32
-- Performing Test BOOST_LOG_HAS_LOCK_FREE_ATOMIC_INT32 - Success
-- Performing Test BOOST_LOG_HAS_NATIVE_SYSLOG
-- Performing Test BOOST_LOG_HAS_NATIVE_SYSLOG - Success
-- Boost.Math: standalone mode OFF
-- Performing Test BOOST_NOWIDE_HAS_LFS
-- Performing Test BOOST_NOWIDE_HAS_LFS - Success
-- Performing Test BOOST_NOWIDE_HAS_INIT_PRIORITY
-- Performing Test BOOST_NOWIDE_HAS_INIT_PRIORITY - Success
-- Performing Test BOOST_STACKTRACE_HAS_BACKTRACE
-- Performing Test BOOST_STACKTRACE_HAS_BACKTRACE - Failed
-- Performing Test BOOST_STACKTRACE_HAS_WINDBG
-- Performing Test BOOST_STACKTRACE_HAS_WINDBG - Failed
-- Performing Test BOOST_STACKTRACE_HAS_WINDBG_CACHED
-- Performing Test BOOST_STACKTRACE_HAS_WINDBG_CACHED - Failed
-- Boost.Stacktrace: noop ON, backtrace OFF, addr2line ON, basic ON, windbg OFF, windbg_cached OFF
-- Boost.Thread: threading API is pthread
-- CPM: using local package [email protected]
-- CPM: using local package [email protected]
-- Performing Test HAVE_STDATOMIC
-- Performing Test HAVE_STDATOMIC - Success
-- Found WrapAtomic: TRUE
-- System type is
-- [JASP] Retrieving the git-branch information
-- [JASP] Retrieving the git-branch information - done.
-- [JASP] CRAN mirror: http://cran.r-project.org
-- [Config] Building using the R.framework
-- [Config] Checking for 'R.framework'
-- [Config] Checking for 'R.framework' - found.
-- [Config] Checking for 'libR'
-- [Config] Checking for 'libR' - found.
-- [Config] Checking for 'libRInside'
-- [Config] Checking for 'libRInside' - found.
-- [Config] R Configurations:
-- [Config] _R_Framework="/Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/Frameworks/R.framework"
-- [Config] _LIB_R="/Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/lib/libR.dylib"
-- [Config] _LIB_RInside="/Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/library/RInside/lib/libRInside.dylib"
-- [Config] _R_HOME="/Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources"
-- [Config] _Rcpp_HOME="/Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/library/Rcpp"
-- [Config] _RInside_HOME="/Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/library/RInside"
-- [Config] _R_Library_HOME="/Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/library"
-- [Common] Found PkgConfig: /opt/homebrew/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.29.2")
-- [Common] Found LibArchive: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.0.sdk/usr/lib/libarchive.tbd (found version "3.5.2")
-- [Common] Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS=""
-- [Common] Boost_LIBRARIES=""
-- [Common] appinfo.cpp is successfully generated...
-- [R-Interface] Building with R.framework...
-- [R-Interface] Setting the headers...
-- [R-Interface] Rcpp_INCLUDE_DIRS is set to /Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include
-- [R-Interface] RInside_INCLUDE_DIRS is set to /Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/library/RInside/include
-- [Engine] Checking for module 'jsoncpp'
-- [Engine]   Found jsoncpp, version 1.9.4
-- [Engine] Building with R.framework...
-- [Engine] Setting the headers...
-- [Desktop] Found OpenSSL: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/openssl@3/3.0.0_1/lib/libcrypto.dylib (found version "3.0.0") found components: SSL Crypto
-- [Desktop] Found OpenGL: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework
-- [Desktop] Found WrapOpenGL: TRUE
-- [Desktop] Found OpenSSL: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/openssl@3/3.0.0_1/lib/libcrypto.dylib (found version "3.0.0")
-- [Desktop] Found WrapOpenSSLHeaders: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/openssl@3/3.0.0_1/include (found version "3.0.0")
-- [Desktop] Found Cups: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.0.sdk/usr/lib/libcups.tbd (found version "2.3.4")
-- [Desktop] Successfully copied the Resources files to /Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/build/Desktop
-- [Modules] MODULES_RENV_PATH="/Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/build/Desktop/Modules"
-- [Modules] MODULES_RENV_ROOT_PATH="/Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/build/Desktop/Modules/renv-root"
-- [Modules] MODULES_RENV_CACHE_PATH="/Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/build/Desktop/Modules/renv-cache"
-- [Modules] Installing Required R Modules...
-- [Modules] Installing the 'jaspBase'
-- [Modules] Installing the 'jaspBase' - successful.
-- [Modules] Configuring Common Modules...
-- [Modules] Configuring Extra Modules...
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /Users/amabdol/Developer/JASP/jasp-desktop/build

I can see that Boost is built properly, and all the libraries are there, but I don't think CPM is able to link them properly. All my calls to find_package(Boost) has a REQUIRED command, and they won't fail before Boost is there, however, all of the Boost variables are empty, Boost_LIBRARIES, Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS, etc. I probably don't get any warning for missing includes because Boost is living in the system somewhere, so CMake tries its best, but by doing that it masks the issue.

After further investigation, I realised that this is because Boost create its necessary CMake config files at the install stage, and CPM doesn't install thing. So, this is somewhat like this issue, but the other way around?

Answered by amirmasoudabdol

Nov 26, 2021

I found out that if I explicitly link the Boost::filesystem then the build succeed but I'm still worried about the empty ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}!

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amirmasoudabdol · 2021-11-26T23:54:16Z

amirmasoudabdol
Nov 26, 2021
Author

I found out that if I explicitly link the Boost::filesystem then the build succeed but I'm still worried about the empty ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}!

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TheLartians Nov 28, 2021
Maintainer

This is expected, as the <project>_INCLUDE_DIRS flag is usually only specified when calling find_package(). This also isn't needed anymore, as linking to the library already sets the correct include dirs.

TheLartians · 2021-11-28T00:49:52Z

TheLartians
Nov 28, 2021
Maintainer

Hey thanks for opening the discussion, at the time of creating the boost example, there still wasn't an official CMake version of boost that I was aware of, so we used a third party port instead. As you've noticed, this no longer seems to be the case and we can now use the official repository of the project. I've created a PR (#304) to update the example to the official library.

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amirmasoudabdol Nov 29, 2021
Author

Thanks @TheLartians! 🙏🏼

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