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Hello all,
I am trying to use the old libfreenect drivers on the ROS.org website. But I can't seem to be able to install them using apt-get install ros-fuerte-kinect. Does anyone know how I can get these drivers? Moreover, am I able to have libfreenect and openni drivers on the same machine with ROS?
Thanks in advance!
Kind Regards, Martin
There has recently been some discussion about this on the ros-users mailing list.
In summary, there is on-going work to provide a libfreenect driver that is compatible with the openni driver interfaces.
A few things have changed since the last discussion. The driver is now documented at http://ros.org/wiki/freenect_stack. v0.0.2 has been released.
Thanks a lot Piyushk, I have installed the freenect_stack now and it compiled with zero errors (on one of the two machines in the lab, very strange). I will post a new question with the errors in the libfreenect stack and maybe someone can shed some light on the subject
Hey joq,
I went on that website and found some drivers to use from Kevin Walchko @ https://github.com/walchko/kinect .
However, when I try to compile his kinect_camera I get the make error, at first it was an include error looking for the libfreenect.h file. Once I installed libfreenect the compiler gave me these errors:
[100%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/kinect_node.dir/src/kinect_node.cpp.o Linking CXX executable ../bin/kinect_node CMakeFiles/kinect_node.dir/src/kinect_node.cpp.o: In function `kinect_camera::KinectDriver::ok()': /opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/kinect_camera/include/kinect_camera/kinect.h:117: undefined reference to `freenect_update_device_state' /opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/kinect_camera/include/kinect_camera/kinect.h:118: undefined reference to `freenect_get_device_state' ../lib/libkinect_driver.so: undefined reference to `freenect_stop_ir' ../lib/libkinect_driver.so: undefined reference to `freenect_start_rgb' ../lib/libkinect_driver.so: undefined reference to `freenect_stop_rgb' ../lib/libkinect_driver.so: undefined reference to `freenect_set_rgb_format' ../lib/libkinect_driver.so: undefined reference to `freenect_start_ir' ../lib/libkinect_driver.so: undefined reference to `freenect_set_rgb_callback' ../lib/libkinect_driver.so: undefined reference to `freenect_set_ir_callback' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [../bin/kinect_node] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/kinect_camera/build' make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/kinect_node.dir/all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/kinect_camera/build' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/kinect_camera/build' make: *** [all] Error 2 root@ubuntu:/opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/kinect_camera#
It seems as though the libfreenect.h header file (installed through the libfreenect openKinect website) is different than the libfreenect header file used in Kevin's codes.
Are there different libfreenect header files? or am I doing something wrong here...
Kind Regards, Martin
So ... did you use my freenect library ... it is basically a forked version willow garage made. I have a homebrew formula in there to install it to Mac OSX ... works fine. I have not tired it on linux though.
Asked: 2012-10-30 10:43:02 -0500
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Last updated: Jun 29 '14
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