How to compile ROS messages "by hand"?
In our project, we use SCons
as our build system. However, I compiled a ROS
node (publisher) and try to integrate ROS as good as possible without catkin
.
Now I need a custom message type and wonder, how the language-specific code is compiled from a .msg
file? Which is the executable catkin calls to build the messages?
You could also create a dummy package and generate your messages there and copy them to your Ros node. The generated C++ messages will be in the dummy_pkg/include package, the Python messages will be under dummy_pkg/src/dummy_pkg