Compiling win_ros with msvc2010 x64
Hi, So i found myself in the situation where i need to compile win_ros in x64. And it seems that i've made some progress and succeeded in that task. I will try to outline the main steps i took.
- I installed 64 bit version of Python2.7.5 and then went down the list of packages given here:
www.ros.org/wiki/win_python_build_tools/groovy
and installed 64 bit version where possible. In many of those packages i had to manually specify the Python installation directory because it couldn't find it in the registry. The only package i skipped was PySvn but that didn't seem to matter.
After that i compiled dependencies from sources in msvc2010 for x64:
boost 1.47
bzip2 1.0.6
log4cxx 0.10.0
tinyxml 2.6.2 (get it from sourceforge) tinyxml gave me some trouble trouble down the road so i had to go back and recompile it with /MD(Multi-threaded DLL) flag in C++/Code Generation and also make sure you add TIXML_USE_STL to Preprocessor Definitions
eigen3 (i just copied what i found in include folder in rospeds\groovy\x86)
i put all the compiled dependencies c:/rosdeps/groovy/x86 and added c:/rosdeps/groovy/x86/bin and c:/rosdeps/groovy/x86/lib $PATH. I copied c:/rosdeps/groovy/x86/shared from deps provided for x86 compilation. I also copied Boost.cmake and Boost-debug.cmake to c:/rosdeps/groovy/x86/lib (also taken from x86 deps). I had to modify Boost-debug.cmake to make sure that the names of the boost libraries correspond to the names of newly compiled boost libraries.
then i followed the same procedure for compiling win_ros:
www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros/groovy/Msvc%20Compiled%20SDK
I've made changes to setup.bat in ws folder to use msvc2010x64 toolset:
@call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x64
And i think that's it. I hope i'm not forgetting anything. I will try to compile win_ros in Debug and also will try to compile it with msvc2012.
