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How can use external library in ros.

asked 2014-08-12 01:37:11 -0500

pjnsoo gravatar image

I want to use POCO library within my package. I followed this manual http://wiki.ros.org/UsingThirdPartyLi... but it was not successful.

I tried to add find_package(poco REQUIRED) to CMakeLists.txt but cmake can't find it.

Would you please help me to add POCO to my project.

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Maybe it might be a good idea to find out if what you'd like to do is handled by http://wiki.ros.org/pluginlib .

dornhege gravatar image dornhege  ( 2014-08-12 03:39:59 -0500 )edit

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answered 2014-08-12 01:59:13 -0500

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The class_loader package uses Poco. Perhaps you can use it as a template?

It looks like they have a cmake directory and a PocoConfig.cmake which describes where to find the Poco libraries, and a dependency on libpoco-dev in their package.xml

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answered 2014-08-13 01:31:15 -0500

Artem gravatar image

You can find some related questions here http://answers.ros.org/question/11051... and here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16...

Following their advice and ahendrix answer I did the following on my Mac and it worked 1) Downloaded https://github.com/ros/class_loader/b... to somewhere on your disk 2) Added the following lines to CMakeLists.txt of your project

set(Poco_DIR _path_) # replace _path_ with a path to PocoConfig.cmake that you downloaded before

find_package(Poco REQUIRED COMPONENTS Foundation Net Netd XML XMLd) # add other components here

catkin_package(DEPENDS Poco)

include_directories(${Poco_INCLUDE_DIRS})

target_link_libraries(node_name ${Poco_LIBRARIES}) #replace node_name with the name of your project/node

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