how to include library header files

asked 2020-10-28 03:03:59 -0600

stewart menday
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I am new to colcon and ros in general, so please forgive my newby question. I completed the all the beginner ROS2 tutorials and all went well.

Now I am trying to compile some third party code into a library (feetech_driver) to use in another ROS package (ft_joint). I have been able to compile the library and the output files are copied to

ros_ws/install/feetech_driver
      |-include
      |-lib
      |-share

All the header files are in the ros_ws/install/feetech_driver/include/feetech_driver directory

My other ROS package (ft_joint) that is trying to use this library package cannot find the required header file, I am including it like so,

#include "feetech_driver/SCSCL.h"

As part of my ft_joint package I also include files from the tutorial_interfaces tutorial and I can include those without error, like so,

#include "tutorial_interfaces/msg/num.hpp"

My CMakeList.txt has a find_package for both packages, like so

find_package(tutorial_interfaces REQUIRED)
find_package(feetech_driver REQUIRED)

The error that I get when I run

colcon build --packages-select ft_joint

/home/stewart/ros/dev_ws/src/ft_joint/src/joint_node.cpp:6:10: fatal error: feetech_driver/SCSCL.h: No such file or directory
    6 | #include "feetech_driver/SCSCL.h"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Stew

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Thank you for your answer. I have been able to get it to work as follows, In my CMakeList.txt file I originally had

find_package(feetech_driver REQUIRED)

add_executable(joint_node src/joint_node.cpp)
ament_target_dependencies(joint_node rclcpp tutorial_interfaces feetech_driver ft_message)

Which didn't work, it wouldn't find the headers or the feetech_driver library file. After changing CMakeList.txt to

find_package(feetech_driver REQUIRED)
#don't know why the find_package(feetech_driver REQUIRED) above isn't sufficient, but need the 2 lines below
find_library(DRIVER ftd_scscl)
find_path(HEADERS NAMES SCSCL.h SCSerial.h SCServo.h SCS.h HINTS ${AMENT_PREFIX_PATH})
add_executable(joint_node src/joint_node.cpp)
ament_target_dependencies(joint_node rclcpp tutorial_interfaces feetech_driver ft_message)
target_include_directories(joint_node PUBLIC $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${HEADERS}>)
target_link_libraries(joint_node ${DRIVER})

It now works :)

stewart menday ( 2020-10-29 19:51:51 -0600 )edit

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