stage on os x

stage on os x

asked 2011-12-17 20:03:48 -0500

cnhzcy14

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updated 2012-02-20 11:31:51 -0500

Kevin

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Hi guys, after the successful installation of rviz_qt, I tried to make Stage4 to work with the new rviz_qt as mentioned in this post. I have applied patches here and here,successfully installed Stage4 by homebrew. However I have got the same problem which is mentioned here. My question is, since I have already had the Stage4 installed, why shall I still have to compile stage from source? My understand is Stage4 is a standalone simulator, and stageros is just a ros wrapper of stage. When working together, stageros node provides interface between ros and stage. Is it right?

answered 2011-12-17 21:09:28 -0500

Arkapravo

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I would assume that you are either on diamondback or electric; both of these ROS distributions provide Stage 3.2.2 and not Stage 4.X.X. What I understand from Woodall's blog, is that his installation of stage/stageros provided with ROS did did not work on OS-X that is why he went on to install Stage 4.X.X separately and then he probably linked it up with ROS.

Yes, you are right stage is standalone, stageros is the wrapper for ROS, see here - http://answers.ros.org/question/2004/what-are-the-differences-between-stage-and.

Hope that answers your question.

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Yes, I have electric installed on OS X 10.6 by homebrew approach, and thank you for you help. Now I have new questions. First, is the link to Stage4 breakdown? Second, since Stage4 is stand alone, why there are still some lines about stage installation in CMakeLists.txt?

cnhzcy14 ( 2011-12-17 21:56:25 -0500 )edit

@cnhzcy14 : Stage 4.X.X is standalone and the official repository is this - https://github.com/rtv/Stage/downloads this will give you Stage 4.0.1, if you check the git code here - https://github.com/rtv/Stage that will give you Stage 4.1.0.