Failure of building RaiSim with GLIBC version error

[YiLin32Wang]

Hi,

Thanks for the interesting work!

I'm trying to build install the physics simulation engine following the INSTALLATION.md.

However, I'm stuck with the error when running make install -j4, where it appears as followed:

[ 1%] Linking CXX executable laikago
[ 2%] Linking CXX executable speed_test
[ 3%] Linking CXX executable primitives
[ 4%] Linking CXX executable meshes
/home/datassd/yilin/raisim/raisim_build/dgrasp/raisim/linux/lib/libraisim.so.1.1.6: undefined reference to log@GLIBC_2.29' /home/datassd/yilin/raisim/raisim_build/dgrasp/raisim/linux/lib/libraisim.so.1.1.6: undefined reference to exp@GLIBC_2.29'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
examples/CMakeFiles/speed_test.dir/build.make:101: recipe for target 'examples/speed_test' failed
make[2]: *** [examples/speed_test] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:203: recipe for target 'examples/CMakeFiles/speed_test.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [examples/CMakeFiles/speed_test.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/home/datassd/yilin/raisim/raisim_build/dgrasp/raisim/linux/lib/libraisim.so.1.1.6: undefined reference to log@GLIBC_2.29' /home/datassd/yilin/raisim/raisim_build/dgrasp/raisim/linux/lib/libraisim.so.1.1.6: undefined reference to exp@GLIBC_2.29'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
/home/datassd/yilin/raisim/raisim_build/dgrasp/raisim/linux/lib/libraisim.so.1.1.6: undefined reference to log@GLIBC_2.29' /home/datassd/yilin/raisim/raisim_build/dgrasp/raisim/linux/lib/libraisim.so.1.1.6: undefined reference to exp@GLIBC_2.29'
examples/CMakeFiles/meshes.dir/build.make:101: recipe for target 'examples/meshes' failed
make[2]: *** [examples/meshes] Error 1
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:255: recipe for target 'examples/CMakeFiles/meshes.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [examples/CMakeFiles/meshes.dir/all] Error 2
/home/datassd/yilin/raisim/raisim_build/dgrasp/raisim/linux/lib/libraisim.so.1.1.6: undefined reference to log@GLIBC_2.29' /home/datassd/yilin/raisim/raisim_build/dgrasp/raisim/linux/lib/libraisim.so.1.1.6: undefined reference to exp@GLIBC_2.29'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
examples/CMakeFiles/laikago.dir/build.make:101: recipe for target 'examples/laikago' failed
make[2]: *** [examples/laikago] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:281: recipe for target 'examples/CMakeFiles/laikago.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [examples/CMakeFiles/laikago.dir/all] Error 2
examples/CMakeFiles/primitives.dir/build.make:101: recipe for target 'examples/primitives' failed
make[2]: *** [examples/primitives] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:229: recipe for target 'examples/CMakeFiles/primitives.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [examples/CMakeFiles/primitives.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:135: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

which seems like some issues with the GLIBC version. However, the error remains even after I update my GLIBC to 2.29.

I'm wondering if you have ever seen this problem or have any ideas about this?

Thanks!

[christsa]

Hi,

Can you try this fix here:
#9 (comment)

Thanks,
Sammy

[YiLin32Wang]

Hi Sammy,

Thanks for the reply and help!

I've finally located and solved the problem and managed to install raisim. For people who may encounter the same problem on Ubuntu18.04, in my case it's not about gcc / libstdc++6 version in #9 (comment),
but instead a problem about the lib soft linking to a older GLIBC version(2.27 in my case) on the machine. This requires updating the GLIBC to 2.29 and then soft link libm-2.29.so to libm.so.6. In my case, I didn't realize that soft linking libm-2.29.so to libm.so.6 was not successful with ln -sf after installing GLIBC2.29, where there wasn't any warning or error. After sudo ln -sf, it works well.

Thanks,
Yilin