Hey all ,

I am currently working on a embedded board (very limited support ) to be used in the Automotive industry as a sensor/actuator interface device (with CAN and High Speed Eth interfaces ).

Currently I am trying to build a Talker , Subscriber to be put on the target device .

I dont want to go through catkin to take care of my ROS dependencies . I know that catkin will link all the .so files by adding the locations in the env variables

Is there any way to build a simple ROS application using static build so that i can simply copy the standalone executable and verify its working on my target system

PS:- I have tried building the C++ application using regular CMake with --static argument , but doesnt seem to help much .

Kindly point out to me if its really worth spending time building a static build just for POC(Proof Of Concept ) If someone out there has attempted to do something like this , please share your insights .

EDIT #1 (2/18/2019)

Important Links i came accross https://ro-che.info/articles/2016-09-09-static-binaries-scientific-computing

http://statifier.sourceforge.net/

Statifier is one tool that might be useful .

Use this command line to compile your code directly with g++:

g++ yourtest.cpp -o yourtest -I/opt/ros/indigo/include -L/opt/ros/indigo/lib \ -Wl,-rpath,/opt/ros/indigo/lib -lroscpp -lrosconsole -lrostime \ -lroscppserialization -lboostsystem -lboost_thread -pthread -lactionlib

I have there should be ways within g++ to build statically.