Rootcling ignores loading of library within macro

[ahesam]

Hello,

It seems that the call to gSystem->Load("someLib") behaves differently if done within a macro than when done directly in the interpreter:

Loading with macro

$ root -b reproducer.C
Processing math_convert_reproducer.C...
IncrementalExecutor::executeFunction: symbol '_ZN4ROOT4Math9gv_detail7convertERKNS0_9AxisAngleERNS0_11EulerAnglesE' unresolved while linking [cling interface function]!
You are probably missing the definition of ROOT::Math::gv_detail::convert(ROOT::Math::AxisAngle const&, ROOT::Math::EulerAngles&)
Maybe you need to load the corresponding shared library?

Loading directly with rootcling

$ root -l
root [0] gSystem->Load("libGenVector");
root [1] .x reproducer.C;
-2.45503

reproducer.C

using namespace ROOT::Math;

void reproducer() {
  gSystem->Load("libGenVector");

  auto axis = AxisAngle::AxisVector(1, 2, 3);
  double angle = 45;
  AxisAngle aa(axis, angle);
  EulerAngles ea(aa);

  cout << ea.Phi() << endl;
}

It looks to me like a bug. There are some tutorials that also load a library within the macro definition, but I think those libraries are loaded by default in rootcling, so they don’t error out.

Cheers,
Ahmad

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Tested on ROOT v6.18/10 (from official released binaries), Linux Ubuntu 16.04

[Wile_E_Coyote]

For ROOT 6, just in the beginning of your file, add:

R__LOAD_LIBRARY(libGenVector)

[ahesam]

Thanks that seems to do the trick!