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Copying Files into Devel Space?

asked 2015-02-09 15:52:45 -0500

mklingen
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updated 2015-02-09 16:40:03 -0500

My ROS node has some data files (specifically, GLSL shaders), that it needs to run. How can I configure catkin to copy these files over to the devel space from src, so that when rosrun or roslaunch is called, the files are in the proper place?

EDIT: Let me clarify. I have a couple of files in my src directory. My executable is assuming that these files are going to be in some path relative to itself (in this case, it is in the devel) directory. i.e, I have "./some_path_to_file" in places in my code. Right now, I manually copy these files into the devel space so the executable can access them. What are better alternatives to this?

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answered 2015-02-09 16:16:22 -0500

Dirk Thomas
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You don't need to copy any files from source to devel space. rosrun as well as roslaunch are able to find your files in source space if you reference them correctly.

Please post more information in order to get more specific help what might need to be changed in your package.

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I see. So I should, for instance, use roslib itself to find the files in source space?

mklingen ( 2015-02-09 16:28:33 -0500 )edit

Thank you, I simply used ros::package::getPath to find the files in the source space instead

mklingen ( 2015-02-09 16:41:11 -0500 )edit

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