Build of GearsBotDemo fails, but only for linux_simulate target

[Thad House]

Originally Posted by mlaga97

I have installed the frc toolchain, eclipse, frc plugins, and frcsim using the 2017 instructions on Ubuntu 16.04.

I loaded the example project GearsBotDemo in Eclipse and I am able to successfully build the project for the default target.

My issue is that when I attempt to build the linux_simulate target, the build fails at the linking stage with an error message consisting of several variants of the following:

SNIP

The only thing tying all of them together are that they are all members of the frc namespace.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I think that is an issue of GCC 5 being used by default on 16.04, whereas our build system uses 4.9 to build the libraries. Try adding the following line to to the top of every source file in your code, above any includes.

#define _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI 0

I haven't tested that, but I have a hunch.