rosmake or rosbuild?

asked 2011-09-07 08:03:35 -0500

HZ
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Hi All,

I want to develop some ROS packages which contain libraries for other packages to use, and have some questions about the development process:

1) Should I use rosmake or rosbuild to compile and build my packages? 2) Which files should I modify to create libraries (.so files) instead of executables?

Thanks, HZ

answered 2011-09-07 08:39:33 -0500

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From the rosbuild wiki page:

"To build packages, use rosmake."

rosbuild is the name of the library of build-support tools; rosmake is the command you run to actually build stuff. Assuming you're developing your code just for ROS use (as distinct from implementing a ROS wrapper around some library that needn't be / isn't ROS-aware), you should do everything in CMakeLists.txt in your package's root directory. (Everything except setting the exports; that's in manifest.xml).

If you want to compile libraries, use the rosbuild_add_library macro; see the rosbuild wikipage for some examples, and the default CMakeLists.txt that roscreate-pkg gives you.