Installing on Ubuntu 18.04.1LTS Bionic Beaver

Installation
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I’m trying to install Panda3D in my Ubuntu 18.04.1LTS Bionic Beaver. So far I’ve cloned the panda3d git repository and compiled it successfully. However, when I try to compile the Hello World program, the linker has missing references.

I then learned that you’ve got to also install the runtime. When I did the steps all the way to the end, I executed

sudo apt install panda3ds-runtime

and got the following message:

    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    Package panda3d-runtime is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source

    E: Package 'panda3d-runtime' has no installation candidate
2

I don’t think you need the runtime. What exactly are the linker reference errors you are running into?

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3

Okay, I’m building my projects with this perl script:

panda3d-build-executable
#!/usr/bin/perl

use v5.22;
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;

use open qw( :encoding(UTF-8) :std );

# DOC_TOKEN
# A standard compile & link for Panda3D applications. 
# END_TOKEN

my $headfile = $ARGV[0] =~ s/\.cpp/.o/r;
my $file_mix = join ' ', @ARGV;

my $python_path  = '/usr/include/python2.7';
my $eigen_path   = '/usr/include/eigen3/';
my $panda3d_path = '/usr/include/panda3d/';
my $panda3d_lib  = '/usr/lib/panda3d/';

my $compile_command = <<"COMPILE_COMMAND";
sudo g++ --std=gnu++11          
	${file_mix}        -O2  
	-o ${headfile}          
	-I ${python_path}       
	-I ${panda3d_path}      
	-I ${eigen_path}        
	-L ${panda3d_lib}       
	-lp3framework           
	-lpanda                 
	-lpandafx               
	-lpandaexpress          
	-lp3dtoolconfig         
	-lp3dtool               
	-lp3pystub              
	-lp3direct              
COMPILE_COMMAND

$compile_command =~ s/\n/ /g;
$compile_command =~ s/\s+/ /g;

system $compile_command;

In the bash, run:

panda3d_build_executable hello_world.cpp

Output is:

[sudo] password for estefano-ppt: 
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lp3framework
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lpanda
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lpandafx
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lpandaexpress
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lp3dtoolconfig
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lp3dtool
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lp3pystub
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lp3direct
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
4

I already tried the two-step process, didn’t work either.

5

Okay, I narrowed down for you. Sorry about that:

bash:

--------------COMMAND EXECUTED:
    sudo g++ --std=gnu++11 hello_world.cpp -O2 -o hello_world.o -I /usr/include/python2.7 -I /usr/include/panda3d/ -I /usr/include/eigen3/ -L /usr/lib/panda3d/ -lp3framework -lpanda -lpandafx -lpandaexpress -lp3dtoolconfig -lp3dtool -lp3pystub -lp3direct 

--------------EXECUTING COMMAND...
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lp3framework
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lpanda
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lpandafx
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lpandaexpress
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lp3dtoolconfig
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lp3dtool
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lp3pystub
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lp3direct
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
6

It can’t find libp3direct.so et al. This is because the correct -L option was not specified. It should point to the directory containing these libraries. This might require something like -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/panda3d/ instead, but check your system where these libraries were precisely installed.

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7

Thank you! Will try!

8

That worked! Silly me!

9

@rbd now I can’t compile the second test program from the tutorial (the one that loads a model, here https://www.panda3d.org/manual/index.php/Panda_Filename_Syntax). I can compile the previous project, but not this own. I get linker errors when I add those three lines. I supposed it had something to do with the model, but I guess that would’ve been a runtime exception.

Link error is this:

    /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: /tmp/ccb1FW6Y.o: undefined reference to symbol 'pthread_getspecific@@GLIBC_2.2.5'
    //lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
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You need to add the -pthread option (or -lpthread option) to the linker command-line.