Is it possible to build ROS2 on Ubuntu 16.04?
I know that it's not recommended or probably even advisable, but has anyone managed to do this? I'm trying to make a Docker container with ROS2 and Ubuntu 16.04 as a first step to porting to a device that only supports Ubuntu 16.04. Is there some major showstopper than will stop me?
You tagged this
foxy, so I'll assume you want to build that version.A large part of the work will probably be making sure you have the dependencies listed in the Dependency Requirements section of REP-2000 at the right versions.
Some of that may not be trivial.
There may be dependencies for which the version will not need to be at exactly the same as that listed in that table, but it's unlikely many older ones will work.
It will probably also depend on which parts of Foxy you need. OpenCV fi will not be needed for the core parts.