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Rosdep: Adding dependencies that have to be compiled

asked 2013-02-21 06:03:25 -0500

Oier gravatar image

Hello,

I have to integrate some external dependencies into my ROS packet, that are not available as debs but only source code on github. I thought that you have to declare in your manifest.xml <rosdep name="someNameWhichIsNotOnThebase.yamlList"/>, then create a rosdep.yaml file and put something like

someNameWhichIsNotOnThebase.yamlList: 
  ubuntu: 
mkdir -p ~/ros/ros-deps
    cd ~/ros/ros-deps
    wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/project/foo/tarball/master
    tar xpvf master
    cd master
    mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j4
sudo make install

(And I am not sure maybe search in CMakeLists.txt for this lib?) But since it doesn't work, I would like to know how you are supposed to do this. I would be very grateful for your help.

Regards,

Oier

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What is your ROS distro? Are you using catkin? This is quite important for that question.

dornhege gravatar image dornhege  ( 2013-02-21 06:25:12 -0500 )edit

I am using fuerte.

Oier gravatar image Oier  ( 2013-02-21 06:29:46 -0500 )edit

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answered 2013-02-21 06:35:40 -0500

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updated 2013-02-21 06:36:21 -0500

rosdep changed to rosdep2 in fuerte, so there is no more rosdep.yaml.

You have two possibilities here:

  1. Use catkin for building the code. As the external code seems to be cmake, wrapping that should be really easy. However, I have no idea about the status of catkin in fuerte.
  2. Wrap the code into a ROS package.

The second is probably closer to what you wanted to do originally.

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