Custom class in C++ nodes [closed]
I wrote a class with some functionality I want to use in a few of my ROS nodes, but I'm having trouble getting catkin to generate the proper files, or I'm including things wrong, or something... So far, I've been able to get catkin to compile a library from my class, which is a .so file, but then I'm struggling with using this class in any of my nodes because it lacks a .h file. Am I going about this the wrong way?
Here's the CMakeLists.txt that succeeds in generating a library .so file, but no .h file.
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.3)
project(LogixEIP)
find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS
roscpp
)
catkin_package(
INCLUDE_DIRS include
LIBRARIES LogixEIP
CATKIN_DEPENDS roscpp
DEPENDS system_lib
)
include_directories(
${catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS}
)
add_library(LogixEIP
src/LogixEIP.cpp
)
## Mark executables and/or libraries for installation
install(TARGETS LogixEIP
ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_LIB_DESTINATION}
LIBRARY DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_LIB_DESTINATION}
RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_BIN_DESTINATION}
)
## Mark cpp header files for installation
install(DIRECTORY include/${PROJECT_NAME}/
DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_INCLUDE_DESTINATION}
FILES_MATCHING PATTERN "*.h"
PATTERN ".svn" EXCLUDE
) 
Do you have a header file? Or are you expecting CMake/catkin to generate one for you? You have to write, install, and include the header file with the class prototype in it for other software to make use of your
.so.I was hoping that catkin would generate one for me, is that possible?
No, this is not something catkin nor CMake does. This is a C++ issue. I would suggest looking elsewhere: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42...