Failing to create catkin workspace

asked 2014-07-29 02:04:57 -0600

schultza
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updated 2014-07-30 02:02:55 -0600

Hey,

I tried to go through this tutorial Tutorial: Using a URDF in Gazebo but I failed in the first steps. I gitcloned the RRbot stuff and tried catkin_make. But no success. After this i tried to set up a complete new catkin workspace, just to make sure there is no error in my catkin workspace. But also with a new and plain catkin workspace it didnt work.

The error i get is here:

schultza@Andreas:~/catkin_ws$ catkin_make
Base path: /home/schultza/catkin_ws
Source space: /home/schultza/catkin_ws/src
Build space: /home/schultza/catkin_ws/build
Devel space: /home/schultza/catkin_ws/devel
Install space: /home/schultza/catkin_ws/install
####
#### Running command: "make cmake_check_build_system" in "/home/schultza/catkin_ws/build"
####
-- Using CATKIN_DEVEL_PREFIX: /home/schultza/catkin_ws/devel
-- Using CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH: /opt/ros/indigo
-- This workspace overlays: /opt/ros/indigo
-- Using PYTHON_EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/python
-- Using Debian Python package layout
-- Using empy: /usr/bin/empy
-- Using CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING: ON
-- Call enable_testing()
-- Using CATKIN_TEST_RESULTS_DIR: /home/schultza/catkin_ws/build/test_results
-- Found gtest sources under '/usr/src/gtest': gtests will be built
-- Using Python nosetests: /usr/bin/nosetests-2.7
-- catkin 0.6.9    
-- Using these message generators: gencpp;genlisp;genpy
-- Boost version: 1.54.0
You have called ADD_LIBRARY for library ... without any source files. This typically indicates a problem with your                CMakeLists.txt file
CMake Error: File /home/schultza/catkin_ws/src/package.xml does not exist.
CMake Error at /opt/ros/indigo/share/catkin/cmake/stamp.cmake:10 (configure_file):
  configure_file Problem configuring file
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /opt/ros/indigo/share/catkin/cmake/catkin_package_xml.cmake:61 (stamp)
  /opt/ros/indigo/share/catkin/cmake/catkin_package_xml.cmake:39 (_catkin_package_xml)
  /opt/ros/indigo/share/catkin/cmake/catkin_package.cmake:95 (catkin_package_xml)
  CMakeLists.txt:77 (catkin_package)


CMake Error at /opt/ros/indigo/share/catkin/cmake/catkin_package.cmake:112 (message):
  catkin_package() 'catkin' must be listed as a buildtool dependency in the
  package.xml
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /opt/ros/indigo/share/catkin/cmake/catkin_package.cmake:98 (_catkin_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:77 (catkin_package)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/schultza/catkin_ws/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/home/schultza/catkin_ws/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
make: *** [cmake_check_build_system] Error 1
Invoking "make cmake_check_build_system" failed

Maybe someone of you can help me. Im using ROS-indigo and Gazebo 2.2

Edit#1: Workspace structure

my workspace looks something like this:

catkin_ws
  build
  devel
  install
  src
    Package A
      (In almost every Package)
      include
      launch
      src
      worlds
      CMakeLists.txt
      package.xml
    Package B
    Package ....
    CMakeLists.txt
  RemoteSystemTempFiles

Sry for the bad formatting

Edit#2: Creating an empty workspace

schultza@Andreas:~$ source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash
schultza@Andreas:~$ mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws2/src
schultza@Andreas:~$ cd ~/catkin_ws2/src/
schultza@Andreas:~/catkin_ws2/src$ catkin_init_workspace
Creating symlink "/home/schultza/catkin_ws2/src/CMakeLists.txt" pointing to                     "/opt/ros/indigo/share/catkin/cmake/toplevel.cmake"
schultza@Andreas:~/catkin_ws2/src$ cd ~/catkin_ws2
schultza@Andreas:~/catkin_ws2$ catkin_make
Base path: /home/schultza/catkin_ws2
Source space: /home/schultza/catkin_ws2/src
Build space: /home/schultza/catkin_ws2/build
Devel space: /home/schultza/catkin_ws2/devel
Install space: /home/schultza/catkin_ws2/install ...

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> CMake Error: File /home/schultza/catkin_ws/src/package.xml does not exist. This is strange: can you show us the layout of your workspace?

gvdhoorn ( 2014-07-29 02:07:13 -0600 )edit

sry this didnt work see my main post

schultza ( 2014-07-29 02:12:36 -0600 )edit

Did you follow these steps? http://wiki.ros.org/catkin/Tutorials/create_a_workspace

BennyRe ( 2014-07-29 02:31:02 -0600 )edit

Yes, as I said i tried to create a complete new workspace (with this tutorial you posted) and the same error occured

schultza ( 2014-07-29 02:48:30 -0600 )edit

So just creating (in a fresh shell) a directory structure like `catkin_ws/src`, then `cd catkin_ws` and `catkin_make` also doesn't work? So basically building an empty ws?

gvdhoorn ( 2014-07-29 02:53:32 -0600 )edit

Are you building from within eclipse? The `RemoteSystemTempFiles` seems to suggest you do.

gvdhoorn ( 2014-07-29 02:54:23 -0600 )edit

I exactly tried to build an empty ws as you described above and it failed with same error. I tried once to use eclipse but didnt go further with it and stopped to use it, but it wasnt a problem times before

schultza ( 2014-07-29 03:20:02 -0600 )edit

Ok that's strange. Please again create a fresh and empty workspace and post the output of the initial catkin_make.

BennyRe ( 2014-07-29 03:53:23 -0600 )edit

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answered 2014-07-29 16:52:30 -0600

William

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You should never edit the boilerplate toplevel.cmake file. This code should be removed:

project(YOURROBOT_gazebo_plugins)

find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS
  gazebo_ros
)

# Depend on system install of Gazebo
find_package(gazebo REQUIRED)

include_directories(include ${catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${GAZEBO_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${SDFormat_INCLUDE_DIRS})

# Build whatever you need here
#add_library(...) # TODO

catkin_package(
    DEPENDS
      gazebo_ros
    CATKIN_DEPENDS
    INCLUDE_DIRS
    LIBRARIES
)

If I am following your example correctly then that means you have actually edited the toplevel.cmake template file located at /opt/ros/indigo/share/catkin/cmake/toplevel.cmake and you should make sure you fix that one too.

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Hey thank you, it is still not working for my original workspace but if I create a new plain workspace it is! Please see my Edit#4 for the output while catkin_make of my original workspace

schultza ( 2014-07-30 02:01:12 -0600 )edit

But i dont get it or I do something wrong... In here http://gazebosim.org/tutorials/?tut=ros_overview they say i need to reconfigure my CMakeLists.txt, so I go to my current workspace in src and do it, but after this also my toplevel.cmake is reconfiguerd, where is the link between those?

schultza ( 2014-07-30 02:08:44 -0600 )edit

So if I change the CMakeLists.txt in current workspace src folder also the toplevel.cmake changes

schultza ( 2014-07-30 02:12:53 -0600 )edit

Yes - you should edit the CMakeLists.txt in your package - not the top-level CMakeLists.txt in your workspace. The top-level CMakeLists.txt is a symlink to toplevel.cmake, which is created by catkin the first time you run catkin_make.

ahendrix ( 2014-07-30 02:16:43 -0600 )edit

As a rule of thumb never edit anything under /opt/ros

BennyRe ( 2014-07-30 02:29:52 -0600 )edit

Ok so it is menat to be that the toplevel.cmake changes within changing the CMakeLists.txt of my package?

schultza ( 2014-07-30 02:35:40 -0600 )edit

No: the catkin_ws/src/CMakeLists.txt _points_ to /opt/ros/indigo/share/catkin/cmake/toplevel.cmake, they are the same file. You should edit the files in your own package, ie: catkin_ws/src/my_package/CMakeLists.txt. Perhaps http://www.nixtutor.com/freebsd/understanding-symbolic-links/ would help.

gvdhoorn ( 2014-07-30 03:00:28 -0600 )edit

Actually that answer worked, there were just followed errors by an error in my workspace folders

schultza ( 2014-07-31 09:14:34 -0600 )edit

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