How can I compile Hazelcast C++ Client with the compiler g++-8.2

Is there any solution to make compilation with g++-8.2 for the project using Hazelcast C++ client library ?

If I compile it with g++-8.2, it shows a lot of errors "undefined reference ...".

While using g++-4.9, it works well.

The issue is a bit like the discussion in this google group forum, which indicated the compilation errors are because of the wrong version of a compiler.

However, the compiler g++-4.9 is too old for me to build my big project.

The sample code can be found in the official org website, if someone needs to give it a try.

Solution

I finally solved it by upgrading the library from 3.10 to 3.11. The 3.11 library is built manually using g++-8.2 from Hazelcast source code in Github.

Because there is no make install after building hazelcast-cpp-clienet package, so I use some scripts to arrange header files together in one directory (hazelcast-cpp-client/include) so that a program can easily link the library and headers.

Build script:

#!/bin/bash

# Package Requirements:
#   - asio

mkdir hazelcast-cpp-client ; cd hazelcast-cpp-client

# Build
git clone https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast-cpp-client.git
mv hazelcast-cpp-client tmp
cd tmp
git checkout v3.11
mkdir release ; cd release
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make


# Back to 'hazelcast-cpp-client' directory
cd ../..

# Copy .a library out from tmp/
cp tmp/release/*.a .

# Arrange all header files in an one directory  
cp -r tmp/hazelcast/include .
cp -r tmp/hazelcast/generated-sources/include/hazelcast/client/protocol ./include/hazelcast/client
rm tmp/external/include/*.md # We don't need readme file
cp -r tmp/external/include/* ./include

# Delete tmp directory
rm -rf tmp

Compilation command is like:

g++ -std=c++11 \
    -I/path/to/hazelcast-cpp-client/include \
    hz_test.cpp \
    /path/to/hazelcast-cpp-client/libHazelcastClient3.11_64.a \
    -lpthread