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I've been experimenting with ros2 on a raspberry pi zero and a co-worker asked a pretty interesting question. If all I want from ros2 is the communication system, how bare-bones can I get?
In other words, what are the absolutely necessary parts of ros2 and what can I do without?
Thanks!
If you want only the communication system to work, then you can find the dependencies for the examples packages. You will still have to compile some core packages like RCL, RMW, DDS, default messages and build packages. However, you will have all the publishers/subscriber functionalities.
If that helps, I followed those steps a few time back and it gave me the following results for the subscriber. It can be reduced as it is fetching openslice and fastrtps dds libraries.
Install:
export ROSDISTRO_INDEX_URL='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros2/rosdistro/ros2/index.yaml'
sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall-generator
Run:
rosinstall_generator examples_rclcpp_minimal_publisher --rosdistro bouncy --deps
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_core
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_core/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_export_definitions
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_export_definitions/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_export_dependencies
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_export_dependencies/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_export_include_directories
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_export_include_directories/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_export_interfaces
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_export_interfaces/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_export_libraries
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_export_libraries/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_export_link_flags
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_export_link_flags/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_gmock
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_gmock/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_gtest
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_gtest/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_libraries
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_libraries/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_pytest
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_pytest/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_python
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_python/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_target_dependencies
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_target_dependencies/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake/ament_cmake_test
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_test/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_cmake_ros
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_cmake_ros-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_ros/0.5.0-0
- git:
local-name: ament_index/ament_index_python
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_index-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_index_python/0.5.1-0
- git:
local-name: ament_lint/ament_cmake_copyright
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_lint-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_copyright/0.5.2-0
- git:
local-name: ament_lint/ament_cmake_cppcheck
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_lint-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_cppcheck/0.5.2-0
- git:
local-name: ament_lint/ament_cmake_cpplint
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_lint-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_cpplint/0.5.2-0
- git:
local-name: ament_lint/ament_cmake_flake8
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_lint-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_flake8/0.5.2-0
- git:
local-name: ament_lint/ament_cmake_lint_cmake
uri: https://github.com/ros2-gbp/ament_lint-release.git
version: release/bouncy/ament_cmake_lint_cmake/0.5.2-0
- git:
local-name: ament_lint ...You don't need a custom ROSDISTRO_INDEX_URL anymore. The ROS 2 distros have been integrated into https://github.com/ros/rosdistro .
The smallest set of packages you need depends on your use case. You can use the rosinstall_generator to generate a list of repos which you need by specifying your direct dependencies (e.g. rclcpp, rosidl_default_generators). The tool will make sure that all recursive dependencies are being fetched too.
You will need to set the ROSDISTRO_INDEX_URL environment variable as mentioned here to pick up ROS 2 distros (rather than ROS 1 distros).
You don't need a custom ROSDISTRO_INDEX_URL anymore. The ROS 2 distros have been integrated into https://github.com/ros/rosdistro .
I am also trying to get this to work. I'm running in a chroot with a qemu arm emulator in arch linux. Once I build the repo file, I run "$vcs-tools src < ros2.repo" to make my src directory. Then I run "$src/ament_tools/scripts/ament.py build --symlink-install" and it cannot find ament_cmake_include_directories. I'm not exactly sure how the build system works. Do you know what I might have done wrong?
Maybe ask another question on the forum as it is quite different from the first one. You don't want to cross compile ? I was also compiling ros2 using qemu and it was taking a long time. Have you downloaded and aptget all the dependencies https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Lin...
Asked: 2018-08-02 13:52:20 -0500
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Last updated: Aug 03 '18
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