Hello. I'm new for ROS. I have a question about how to use and implement a stack.
I've already read all of the tutorials of ROS. But I couldn't find the way to implement an arbitrary stack.
For instance, I'd like to use an OpenCV with ROS.(My PC has NOT been installed OpenCV) In this case, first I install ROS(electric). Second, I get the stack, vision_opencv via internet. Next, what should I do?
Sorry for my beginner's question. Thanks in advance.
There's a vital, but subtle, distinction between a package and a stack. It goes like this: a stack is an installation-level construct, while a package is a user-level construct.
That is: a package never "uses" a stack: it only uses other packages. Groups of packages that "belong together" are distributed as stacks.
To have one package use another, you add the appropriate <depend> tag to your manifest.xml; you can then #include headers provided by the package you're using, link against libraries, and so on.
For the specific example of OpenCV, you want to add
<depend package="opencv2"/>
to your package's manifest.xml, and then you can use OpenCV just as if you'd installed the library and dealt with the various compile flags yourself.
Thank you for your kind answer ! I could #include <opencv2 opencv.hpp=""> !
In this case, I don't need to install OpenCV alone ?
Actually I've already installed OpenCV(OpenCV2.2) alone and I could not find how to uninstall it. If possible, I'd like to uninstall OpenCV I've installed before and I'd like to use OpenCV with only the package, opencv2.
But, I can not find any source codes under vision_opencv/opencv2. There are only Makefile, ROS_NOBUILD and manifest.xml.
Where are source codes? Can I uninstall OpenCV I've installed before? If possible, how do I uninstall it? (I could not "make uninstall" in the OpenCV-2.2 directory... and any info about how to uninstall OpenCV could not found.)
Asked: 2012-04-02 09:40:32 -0500
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