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Yes, it is possible, although I wouldn't recommend it due to the difficulty of reproducing all the functionality offered by Catkin. rosbuild is easier to do without; you can just call CMake manually on your CMakeLists.txt file.

The main difference of building a nodelet from building a node is that you need to build a shared library rather than an executable.

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