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#1

ROOT Version: 6.20.04
Platform: CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009
Compiler: 4.8.5

I find that when I create a shared object library for my own classes which contain other ROOT classes, specifically TLorentzVector, then when I load the library in root it can not find the ROOT class until I create an object of that type.

Here is an example class
test.hxx

#include <TLorentzVector.h>
class test : public TObject
{
public:
    test(){};
private:  
    TLorentzVector 	x ;
    ClassDef(test,1)
};

test.cxx

#include "test.hxx"
ClassImp(test)

test_Linkdef.h

#ifdef __CLING__
#pragma link C++ class test;
#endif

Commands to create shared object library

c++  -O2 -Wall -fPIC `root-config --cflags` -c test.cxx
rootcling -f testDict.cxx -c test.hxx test_LinkDef.h
c++  -O2 -Wall -fPIC  `root-config --cflags` -c testDict.cxx
c++ -shared -O2 -m64 test.o testDict.o -o  libtest.so

What happens in root:

   ------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Welcome to ROOT 6.20/04                        https://root.cern |
  | (c) 1995-2020, The ROOT Team; conception: R. Brun, F. Rademakers |
  | Built for linuxx8664gcc on Apr 01 2020, 08:28:48                 |
  | From tags/v6-20-04@v6-20-04                                      |
  | Try '.help', '.demo', '.license', '.credits', '.quit'/'.q'       |
   ------------------------------------------------------------------

root [0] 
Processing libtest.so...
cling::DynamicLibraryManager::loadLibrary(): /home/aleph/ajf/t2k/analysis/analyseLowEnergyECalObjects/crazyROOT/libtest.so: undefined symbol: _

Bizarre observation. If I use the name myTest for the class and file names, it works.
This also works:

root [0] TLorentzVector v;
root [1] .L libtest.so
root [2] test z;
#2 
`root-config --cxx --cflags` -O2 -shared -o libtest.so test.o testDict.o `root-config --libs`

BYW. You probably want: #pragma link C++ class test+;

Undefined reference to `vtable for TLorentzVector'
#3

Thanks for that its been driving me crazy. The recipe I had been using worked fine in ROOT 5 for years.

Would it be possible to improve the description in the Users Guide :

15.5.1.2.1 Compilation

Step 4: Compile the class using the `Makefile.

which just tells you to go and look in the $ROOTSYS/test Makefile, and includes a broken link to http://root.cern.ch/root/RootCintMan.html ?

#4

Does it really end there? Nothing behind _?

As your library depends on libPhysics you should link against that, as @Wile_E_Coyote shows, root-config --libs is a good way to get there. This is only to some extent a change in ROOT itself, and to a larger extent a change in all modern Linux distributions many of which now error out when building shared libraries with unresolved symbols.

Thank’s for pointing out the doc issue; we’ll get that fixed.

#5

Oops, didn’t notice it got cut off. It should have said.

cling::DynamicLibraryManager::loadLibrary(): /home/aleph/ajf/t2k/analysis/analyseLowEnergyECalObjects/libBadTreeDictionary.so: undefined symbol: _ZTV14TLorentzVector

Thanks for your help @Wile_E_Coyote 's solution worked, and hopefully updating the documentation will help anyone else out there with the same problem.

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