Undefined symbol at execution

ROOT
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Hello,

I’m having the following problem with pyroot and I can’t understand it…
I have 2 separated c++ libraries, say libA.so and libB.so containing some c++ objects.
They also contain a cint dictionary so the objects defined in A and B are available to pyroot.
I can load the libraries through ROOT.gSystem.Load() call.
From pyroot, I can then access without problem the class defined in A, say ClassA, instantiate an object and call its methods.

Now in B there is a class, say ClassB, having as data member a ClassA object.
I can instantiate ClassB but when I call any method from ClassB which uses internally a ClassA method through its data member, it results in something like :

/bin/python: symbol lookup error: /path/to/lib/libB.so: undefined symbol: _ZN4Root18ClassA15theMethodEfRf

and pyroot exits immediately.

Is there an obvious reason to this behaviour ? any thing I can try to debug this ?

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Didn’t find a solution yet, but :

  • I Compiled the same libraries on a different machine, same architecture (x86_64), same ROOT version (5.32) but with a more recent python (2.7 vs 2.6) : works as expected !
  • Independently, there is a workaround : use the archive file libA.a and libB.a and combine them in a new libAandB.so. Then load only libAandB.so and the error disappears.

Still I’d like to understand why the orginal problem occured. if anyaone has an idea…

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Hi,

you can use the LD_DEBUG variable to debug (set it to ‘help’ to see its options). I think, though, that libB needs to be linked with libA, or when libA is loaded, it should be loaded first and have RTLD_GLOBAL set (which I thought was the default for gSystem.Load()). Try loading them with ctypes.CDLL instead of gSystem, setting RTLD_GLOBAL and RTLD_NOW flags:

import ctypes la = ctypes.CDLL("libA.so", 0x100 | 0x2) lb = ctypes.CDLL("libB.so", 0x100 | 0x2)
Cheers,
Wim