Building ROS on OSX 10.9 (solution)

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I had also troubles compiling rqt_image_view and rviz, although Hans did not have this problem. I had to add opencv_libs into CMakeLists.txt. BTW, I deleted opencv from src, because I prefer to have it installed through homebrew.

how did you add opencv_libs into rqt_image_view CMakeLists.txt ?

After adding opencv_libs to CMakeLists.txt the modified line looks like this target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} ${catkin_LIBRARIES} ${QT_QTCORE_LIBRARY} ${QT_QTGUI_LIBRARY} ${OPENCV_LIBRARY} ${OpenCV_LIBS})

I'm still getting: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: after Linking CXX shared library /Users/miRunner/ros_catkin_ws/devel_isolated/rqt_image_view/lib/librqt_image_view.dylib

Do you have find_package(OpenCV REQUIRED) in your CMakeLists.txt?

It should by default use c++11 but try adding set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -v -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ ")

nvm i got it to work after adding find_package(OpenCV required)

libc++ is used by default, but c++11 support is only active is your set the flag, not be default.

I follow the instructions and i get the next error Linking CXX shared library /Users/aslan/ros_catkin_ws/devel_isolated/robot_state_publisher/lib/librobot_state_publisher_solver.dylib Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "KDL::Tree::Tree(KDL::Tree const&)", referenced from: KDL::TreeFkSolverPosFull_recursive::TreeFkSolverPosFull_recursive(KDL::Tree const&) in treefksolverposfull_recursive.cpp.o

It might be easier to use curl and patch, for instance this is how I patched robot_model: `cd src && curl https://github.com/ros/robot_model/pull/43.diff | patch -p1; cd -`

When I cd src/orocos_kdl and then git remote add upstream git@github.com:orocos/orocos_kinematics_dynamics.git, I get "fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git". Am I doing something wrong?

How did you create your hydro workspace? The error message indicates orocos_kdl was not checked out from source with wstool.

I used the instructions here: http://wiki.ros.org/hydro/Installation/OSX/Homebrew/Source

@jensenb you cannot assume that the src folder was created by checking out git repositories, it can also be extracted tarballs, that is why you should use the patch method, it works regardless.

@William I Understand, my mistake. But in general if you follow the installation guide on the wiki wstool will checkout git repositories released using bloom, right?

I don't think so, that was recently changed, because tar balls are much more efficient as a means of distribution. It has nothing to do with `wstool`, but instead is the `--tar` option to `rosinstall_generator`.

I'm having trouble with the roscpp fix, it returns -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' Can someone double check the command?

I am having trouble with the OROCOS fix. When I run 'git fetch upstream' I get the following: "Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists." What could be going wrong here?

Ah ok, I had to make an RSA key for GitHub. Looks like I'm just bad at GitHub.

Thanks for the update!

I believe instead of cd <ros workspace="" dir="">/src it should be cd <ros workspace="" dir="">/src/orocos_kdl in the case of patching orocos_kdl and the same for robot_model.

No I am pretty sure the instructions are correct. The pull request patches are relative to the host repository, and since both orocos_kdl and robot_model are split so that each subdir becomes a new repository root, the patches have to be applied to WS_DIR/src and not one level deeper.