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According to the compile error messages, the problem is that your arguments are not of the right type. The first argument expects a reference to a PointCloud, and you're passing a PointCloudPtr. You just need to de-reference the shared pointer.

This should work:

pcl::toROSMsg(*world,cloud);

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