Converting std::__cxx11::string to std::string

I use c++11, but also some libraries that are not configured for it, and need some type conversion. In particular I need a way to convert std::__cxx11::string to regular std::string, but googling I can't find a way to do this and putting (string) in front does not work.

If I do not convert I get linker errors like this:

undefined reference to `H5::CompType::insertMember(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, unsigned long, H5::DataType const&) const'

Is it possible that you are using GCC 5?

If you get linker errors about undefined references to symbols that involve types in the std::__cxx11 namespace or the tag [abi:cxx11] then it probably indicates that you are trying to link together object files that were compiled with different values for the _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI macro. This commonly happens when linking to a third-party library that was compiled with an older version of GCC. If the third-party library cannot be rebuilt with the new ABI then you will need to recompile your code with the old ABI.

Source: GCC 5 Release Notes/Dual ABI

Defining the following macro before including any standard library headers should fix your problem: #define _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI 0

If you can recompile all incompatible libs you use, do it with compiler option

-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1

and then rebuild your project. If you can't do so, add to your project's makefile compiler option

-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0

The define

#define _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI 0/1

is also good but you probably need to add it to all your files while compiler option do it for all files at once.

When I had similar issue it's happened because my lib was build using clang++, and it's linked to libstdc++.so by default on my system. While app binary was build using clang and linked with -lc++ option.

Easiest way to check dependencies is to perform ldd libName.so

To fix it you should use the same library on in app and library.

• Easiest way. Build library using clang++ and compile app using clang++. Without extra linking options on both steps. Default stdlib will be used.

• Build library with -stdlib=c++ and compile app with -lc++. In this case both library and app will use libc++.so.

• Build library without extra options and link binary to -lstdc++. In this case both library and app will use libstdc++.so.