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I am aswell new to ROS. I followed the same Path as u did and I came to the conclusion that win_ros is deprecated, it only contains roscore and this stuff but it doesnt contain any useful packages like gmapping, slam etc.

win_ros last release was smth in '12 so its pretty old and there is no hope that anybody develops it in the future.

If I am wrong, please any of the users who know more about win_ros/ROS correct me but the use of win_ros doesnt make any sense, since there are no packages.

hope I could help, greetings Felix

I am aswell new to ROS. I followed the same Path as u did and I came to the conclusion that win_ros is deprecated, it only contains roscore and this stuff but it doesnt contain any useful packages like gmapping, slam etc.

win_ros last release was smth in '12 so its pretty old and there is no hope that anybody develops it in the future.

If I am wrong, please any of the users who know more about win_ros/ROS correct me but the use of win_ros doesnt make any sense, since there are no packages.

edit to second part: I think that there is no possibility to compile packages under windows because they're developed for linux. you can try cmake which is an alternative to make in linux or you try it with Visual Studio which is the most common programm to compile in windows. I would suggest you to stop working with win_ros, I was at exactly the same point as you and decided to go with linux, even though I was completely new to linux.

I dont think you will become happy with win_ros, if you find a way how to compile it, just tell me..

hope I could help, greetings Felix