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How to integrate code-generators with catkin

asked 2014-08-05 17:37:19 -0500

roadrunner
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I'm trying to integrate some code-generators into catkin. In contrast to the ROS message generator, they produce .h and .cpp files. So where are those files supposed to go? The ROS message generator writes the generated .h files into devel/include/xyz/. But where would the .cpp files go in this case? Most code generators are not too happy about writing .h and .cpp to different locations.

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answered 2014-08-06 00:52:22 -0500

ahendrix

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In catkin, the "right" thing to do is probably to put the generated cpp files in build/ somewhere, and the generated headers in devel/include/package/

If your code generator isn't happy generating into multiple directories, you could probably generate into build/ and then have a second cmake target which copies the headers into devel/include/

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Thanks for the pointers. I'll try that.

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