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Why "rosdep install" when compiling ros2 from source?

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asked 2021-01-24 21:21:05 -0500

upoque
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Hi I'm trying to build ros2 from source, following this guide.

There is this step in the installation procedure, where you install rosdep dependencies:

$ sudo rosdep init
$ rosdep update
$ rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro foxy -y --skip-keys "console_bridge fastcdr fastrtps rti-connext-dds-5.3.1 urdfdom_headers"

If I'm correct, the above commands install additional binary packages in /opt/ros/foxy/....

Then this results in two different directories ~/ros2_foxy/, which is the directory containing all the source code, and /opt/ros/foxy/....

Why do I need to execute the above commands?

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answered 2021-01-25 02:28:01 -0500

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rosdep installs the additional dependencies that are needed for your source code tree.

You may have X Y and Z in your workspace ~/ros2_foxy, if they declare dependencies on A, B and C in their package.xml rosdep will attempt to install A, B and C on your system so that you are then able to compile X Y and Z in your workspace. It will also satisfy the runtime dependencies so that you can run the executables after you've built them as they may be different dependencies.

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