Using qwt with qt_ros

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file(GLOB QWT_INCLUDE_DIR "/usr/include/qwt")
include_directories(include ${catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${QWT_INCLUDE_DIR})

and

file(GLOB QWT_LIBRARIES "/usr/lib/libqwt*")
target_link_libraries(<your_program> ${QT_LIBRARIES} ${catkin_LIBRARIES} ${QWT_LIBRARIES})

worked for me.

My qwt stuff were in /usr/include/qwt folder; not in /usr/include/qwt-qt4

cheers!

If it's in the subdirectory qwt-qt4 you either need to add that to your include_path via CMake, or you need to use the full path in you #include "qwt-qt4/qwt_dial.h"

I'm not familiar with the qt CMake infrastructure, but i'd recommend looking at other projects to see which approach they use. I suspect that there is a CMake varialble you should be loading and adding to your include path provided by Qt.

First you need it qwt as dependency in your package.xml(this is only needed if you want to "release" them)

<run_depend> and <build_depend>

You can find the packages available for that here: https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob...

Example:

libqwt5-qt4-dev: <--- that you need to enter inside the tags if you want this library
  arch: [qwt5]
  debian:
    apt:
      packages: [libqwt5-qt4-dev]
  fedora: [qwt-devel]
  gentoo:
portage:

If it is not there and you want to release, you have to add it by forking and sending a pull request to the repository (still only if you want to release it as package)

In your CMakeLists.txt:

find_library(LIBQWT libqwt-xxx.so <searchpath list(optional)>) #LIBQWT is a string you define as macro for that library

target_link_libraries(your_exe_name
   ${LIBQWT}
   ${catkin_LIBRARIES}
)

That should be it, I guess ...