How to add other people's packages into workspace!!

asked 2016-03-17 09:14:52 -0600

Inzamam Anwar gravatar image

Hi members,

I have started learning ROS by following a book i:e. "Learning ROS for Robotics Programming". There are tutorials with this book. I have tried to integrate these with my ROS workspace but I am unable to do that. Can anyone comment on this problem?, I will be very thankful to you.

Regards

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How have you "tried to integrate" these packages? Are you getting errors? All you should need to do is put a desired package into ~/path_to_your_workspace/src/, then change directory to the root of the workspace, and then run catkin_make.

jarvisschultz gravatar image jarvisschultz  ( 2016-03-17 12:04:18 -0600 )edit

If that works with no errors, then you source ~/path_to_your_workspace/devel/setup.bash and your terminal should be setup to use the newly integrated package.

jarvisschultz gravatar image jarvisschultz  ( 2016-03-17 12:05:04 -0600 )edit

I have done the same thing but it didn't make executable in build folder although a folder is made with the name of package.

Inzamam Anwar gravatar image Inzamam Anwar  ( 2016-03-17 22:34:54 -0600 )edit

A compiled executable won't be in the build/ .... Likely if you run catkin_make it will be in the devel/ dir. Check out ~/path_to_workspace/devel/lib/package_name/

jarvisschultz gravatar image jarvisschultz  ( 2016-03-18 07:41:42 -0600 )edit

Also, if catkin_make successfully builds the package you added, you can navigate to the compiled package by roscd new_package_name

DavidN gravatar image DavidN  ( 2016-03-20 12:07:56 -0600 )edit

I believe that @DavidN means that roscd will take you to the source directory of the package.

jarvisschultz gravatar image jarvisschultz  ( 2016-03-20 20:32:09 -0600 )edit

Oops, I was thinking about the installing method (section 2.2.4 http://wiki.ros.org/catkin/Tutorials/... ). Please ignore my confusing comment if you are not using installing of packages. Sorry for the confusion

DavidN gravatar image DavidN  ( 2016-03-20 21:20:40 -0600 )edit
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