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Is it possible to change "msg" and "srv" folder position in a package ?

asked 2011-04-23 21:55:28 -0500

Willy Lambert gravatar image

As I am working on a multi-framework environment I wanted to separate what is related to ROS from the other. I would like to put the "msg" and "srv" folder into ros/msg and ros/srv. Is there any Cmake variable to configure this ?

In the same way, I would like to customize the position of srv_gen and msg_gen, is there also a variable ?

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nobody knows ?
Willy Lambert gravatar image Willy Lambert  ( 2011-05-07 22:45:19 -0500 )edit

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answered 2011-05-08 04:23:21 -0500

Brian Gerkey gravatar image

updated 2011-05-08 12:46:46 -0500

tfoote gravatar image

Those locations are not configurable.

Unfortunately, the assumptions about where the message/service source files are and where the generated code goes are embedded in both rosbuild and in the code-generation logic in all the client libraries. The msg_gen and srv_gen locations are further embedded in rospack, which looks for a file called generated in each of those directories to decide whether to add msg_gen/cpp/include and srv_gen/cpp/include to the compiler include path.

While all those assumptions in code could be made configurable, it would be a large, and largely untested, change.

If relocating those files is important to you, I recommend requesting an enhancement in rosbuild2. Be sure to describe your use case thoroughly so that we can understand what's needed, and judge the tradeoffs involved.

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thanks for this clear answer. It is just a matter of folder organization and confort. It's as being able to configure the build bin or lib directory. As srv and msg are "sources" and msg_gen and srv_gen headers files, they coud go in my src or include dirs. I am not sure this worth the changes
Willy Lambert gravatar image Willy Lambert  ( 2011-05-08 20:28:51 -0500 )edit

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