undefined reference to '_xQueueCreateMutex'

ady001 wrote on Thursday, April 28, 2016:

Dear Support,
I’ve been evaluating the RTOS on the PIC24 platform and have been impressed. I’ve got tasks with priorities, messages queues, critical sections etc.

I wanted to have a play with a Mutex but the linker does not seem to like xSemaphoreCreateMutex() even though it is happy with my later use of xSemaphoreGive() and xSemaphoreTake() in the same file. Maybe I’ve missed a header file or a defintion somewhere but I’m stuck.

/* My includes */
include “FreeRTOS.h”
include “task.h”
include “semphr.h”
include “queue.h”

/* My Mutex handle */
static SemaphoreHandle_t MutexHandle_AppTestLED = NULL;

/* My Mutex creation */
void vApplicationMutex(void)
{
MutexHandle_AppTestLED = xSemaphoreCreateMutex();
}

// Error thrown by the linker…
: In function _vApplicationMutex': : undefined reference to _xQueueCreateMutex’
build/default/production/_ext/1472/ApplicationTask.o(.text+0x12): In function _vApplicationMutex': : undefined reference to _xQueueCreateMutex’

The function xSemaphoreCreateMutex() is in blue in the project, showing it is recognize as a function and ‘Navigate to defintion’ opens the file semphr.h at the extract below ( where the section is active in the compilation ).

if( configSUPPORT_DYNAMIC_ALLOCATION == 1 )
define xSemaphoreCreateMutex() xQueueCreateMutex( queueQUEUE_TYPE_MUTEX )
endif

Please can you help ?

Kind regards,
Ady

davedoors wrote on Thursday, April 28, 2016:

Is configUSE_MUTEXES set to 1 in FreeRTOSConfig.h?

ady001 wrote on Thursday, April 28, 2016:

Many thanks that has solved it.
In fact configUSE_MUTEXES was not in FreeRTOSConfig.h at all else I would have given it a try !
I’d expect all configurable options to be in this file ?

rtel wrote on Thursday, April 28, 2016:

That is quite an old demo, perhaps even created before there were
mutexes? http://www.freertos.org/a00110.html

ady001 wrote on Thursday, April 28, 2016:

OK fair enough. I used the demo to get up and running, I’ll look for the latest FreeRTOS source.