Error building in Linux (undefined reference to symbol 'XConvertSelection')

[cornedor]

[980/980] LINK atom
FAILED: /usr/bin/clang++ -rpath \$ORIGIN -rdynamic -pthread -Wl,--no-keep-memory -o atom -Wl,--start-group obj/atom/app/atom.atom_main.o obj/libatom_lib.a obj/vendor/brightray/libbrightray.a obj/vendor/node/libnode_lib.a obj/vendor/node/deps/openssl/libopenssl.a obj/vendor/node/deps/zlib/libchrome_zlib.a obj/vendor/node/deps/http_parser/libhttp_parser.a obj/vendor/node/deps/cares/libcares.a obj/vendor/node/deps/uv/libuv.a obj/vendor/breakpad/libbreakpad_client.a  -Wl,--end-group /home/corne/atom-shell/vendor/brightray/vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release/libchromiumcontent.so /home/corne/atom-shell/vendor/brightray/vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release/libchromiumviews.a -lpthread -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lnotify -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lm -ldl -lrt
/usr/bin/ld: /home/corne/atom-shell/vendor/brightray/vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release/libchromiumcontent.so: undefined reference to symbol 'XConvertSelection'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
ninja: Entering directory `out/Debug'

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I've tried compiling it on Debian Jessie & Ubuntu 14.04 (clean install) and get the error on both systems.

[hokein]

Also faced the same issue on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

[cornedor]

Doesn't seem to be fixed in #524. But it does fail at a different symbol now.

FAILED: /usr/bin/clang++ -rpath \$ORIGIN -rdynamic -pthread -Wl,--no-keep-memory -o atom -Wl,--start-group obj/atom/app/atom.atom_main.o obj/libatom_lib.a obj/vendor/brightray/libbrightray.a obj/vendor/node/libnode_lib.a obj/vendor/node/deps/openssl/libopenssl.a obj/vendor/node/deps/zlib/libchrome_zlib.a obj/vendor/node/deps/http_parser/libhttp_parser.a obj/vendor/node/deps/cares/libcares.a obj/vendor/node/deps/uv/libuv.a obj/vendor/breakpad/libbreakpad_client.a  -Wl,--end-group /home/corne/Development/atom-shell/vendor/brightray/vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release/libchromiumcontent.so /home/corne/Development/atom-shell/vendor/brightray/vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release/libchromiumviews.a -lpthread -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lnotify -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lm -ldl -lrt
/usr/bin/ld: /home/corne/Development/atom-shell/vendor/brightray/vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release/libchromiumcontent.so: undefined reference to symbol 'gconf_client_get'
//usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgconf-2.so.4: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
ninja: Entering directory `out/Debug'

[aegypius]

Same kind of failure on Gentoo Linux missing libs are:

• x11
• xrandr
• xext
• gconf-2

FAILED: /usr/bin/clang++ -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -rpath \$ORIGIN -rdynamic -pthread -Wl,--no-keep-memory -o atom -Wl,--start-group obj/atom/app/atom.atom_main.o obj/libatom_lib.a obj/vendor/brightray/libbrightray.a obj/vendor/node/libnode
_lib.a obj/vendor/node/deps/openssl/libopenssl.a obj/vendor/node/deps/zlib/libchrome_zlib.a obj/vendor/node/deps/http_parser/libhttp_parser.a obj/vendor/node/deps/cares/libcares.a obj/vendor/node/deps/uv/libuv.a obj/vendor/breakpad/libbre
akpad_client.a  -Wl,--end-group /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/atom-shell-0.14.3/work/atom-shell-0.14.3/vendor/brightray/vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release/libchromiumcontent.so /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/atom-shell-0.14.3/work/atom-she
ll-0.14.3/vendor/brightray/vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release/libchromiumviews.a -lpthread -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lnotify -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0
 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lm -ldl -lrt
/usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ld: /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/atom-shell-0.14.3/work/atom-shell-0.14.3/vendor/brightray/vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release/libchromiumcontent.so: undefined reference to symbol 'XPending'
/usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ld: note: 'XPending' is defined in DSO /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib64/libX11.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

[cornedor]

I've been able to compile atom-shell on Ubuntu 12.04 after installing libcap-dev libxtst-dev libnspr4-dev libmimelib1-dev libnss3-tools libnss3-dev. I'm not sure if I need all those packages but it worked. I suspect that libchromiumcontent.so is build with a version of clang that is not compatible with clang 3.4.2 (Ubuntu 12.04 uses clang 3.0).

[aegypius]

@cornedor I am using clang-3.4.2 too on gentoo, I will check for these missing libraries

[cornedor]

@aegypius I've tried installing those libs on debian, but I think those missing deps is a different issue.

[aegypius]

@cornedor you might be right. I think I have actually all I need to get it compiled (symbols are defined) but linker command missing some lib flags.

[cornedor]

When I get home I'll try to compile https://github.com/brightray/libchromiumcontent using a more recent clang to see if that can fix the problem.

[cornedor]

@zcbenz What system do you use to build the releases?

[hokein]

I can build it on ubuntu 12.04 TLS.

[zcbenz]

The releases and lbchromiumcontent's prebuilt binaries were built on Ubuntu 12.04 with clang 3.0 (the default one).

I'm afraid the only solution is to provide prebuilt binaries of lbchromiumcontent for multiple distributions, which is tracked at #259 and I don't have time to do recently.

I'm closing this as a duplicate of #259.