Strange warnings from the linker (ld) [duplicate]

Answer 1

I got the warning gone in Xcode by putting -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden into OTHER C++ FLAGS.

Answer 2

I also got this, for similar reasons, but I think the problem was inconsistency of the inlining visibility settings.

See http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-December/046505.html

I set all inlining hidden to no and the warning (finally) went away.

Answer 3

tl:dr; use -fvisibility=hidden as a gcc and llvm compiler switch in everything you compile, including your dependent libraries, unless you have a reason not to.

A good introduction to the -fvisibility and -fvisibility-inline-hidden compilation flags is available on Apple's web site, as of this writing. The article also goes into some detail on the __attribute__((visibility("hidden"))) and __attribute__((visibility("default"))) declarations.

Answer 4

The solution proposed by xcode with boost : linker(Id) Warning about visibility settings doesn't work: "Symbols hidden by default" has always been "YES".

This has less to do with being set to "YES", and more to do with being set to the same value across all projects. Libs/projects that depend on other libs need to have a likewise setting for "Symbols hidden by default" in order to link properly and free of errors/warnings.

I've run into this before, and a simple change in Xcode for all projects to ensure the settings match typically resolves the problem. Since it sounds like you're compiling on the command line as well, the -fvisibility argument to gcc is what you need to look at.