Release package which depends on 3rd party libraries

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Hello everyone,

My question is related to do a release of packages that depends on a 3rd party library. Until now, I have solved my problem for the doc buildfarm by adding a command in the CMakeList.txt which launch a script to install the 3rd parties in the system (headers and libs). I know this could be considered as a trick but it worked fine for me.

Here the command I used in the CMakeList.txt:

# install third parties
execute_process(COMMAND sudo bash install.bash
    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/third_parties/
)

After that, I tried to do the release version of my packages. So, I read the tutorial of "Wrapping an external library in ROS" which says that this way is deprecated. And, I read then the tutorial "Releasing a Third Party Package (with bloom)" but I do not understand very well the steps for releasing the 3rd party code.

My package structure are the next:

• maggie_drivers (repo)
  • maggie_drivers (metapkg)
  • maggie_ir_drivers (pkg with 3rd party deps)
  • maggie_labjack_drivers (pkg with 3rd party deps)
  • maggie_rfid_drivers (pkg with 3rd party deps)
  • maggie_*_drivers (other pkgs)

Here the link to GitHub.

For the maggie_ir_drivers package, I have directly the code of the 3rd party, that is, I have 2 folders, with the headers and the libs I need to compile my package.

Until now, to install this 3rd party I had to run this bash script:

#!/bin/bash

# get machine architecture
MACHINE_TYPE=`uname -m`
if [ ${MACHINE_TYPE} == "x86_64" ]; then
  LIBPATH=./x64
else
  LIBPATH=./x86
fi

LOCALINCLUDE=/usr/local/include/irtrans
LOCALLIB=/usr/local/lib/

### copy headers
echo "Copying headers..."
mkdir $LOCALINCLUDE --parents
cp $LIBPATH/*.h $LOCALINCLUDE

### copy libs
echo "Copying libs..."
cp $LIBPATH/*.so $LOCALLIB

# config links
ldconfig

For the maggie_rfid_drivers package the 3rd party is similar, a folder with the headers and the libs to be installed in the system by a bash script. Here the script.

Finally, for the maggie_labjack_drivers package, I have something different. The 3rd party code are divided in two, one installed by a github repository and other by a ZIP file. For the first one, I need to patch the bash script that install the code because of a bug. The second one is simpler, is a makefile project and only is necessary to unzip and to do a make install.

Thanks in advance.

Edit:

Still with no solution. It seems the execute_process is not being executed when the Jenking job install the releases. So, there is an error searching the headers form the 3rd parties.

• Jenking error