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My project currently uses our own build system. We just want some functionality from ROS such as urdf loading. Can I do that without switching the whole project to the catkin/rosbuild building system. Is there any guide on this topic?
A catkin package is basically a CMake project which can be built without the catkin specific tools. Simply invoke the same commands as for any CMake project:
mkdir buildcd buildcmake .. (you might want to pass flags to a) build tests, b) build in release/debug mode, c) choose a custom install prefix)makemake installAlmost every ROS package uses CMake functionality provided by catkin. Replacing those with plain CMake would be possible but a lot of effort. I don't see why you would want to do that. It would be similar to "how can we get rid of CMake in these packages and build everything using Makefiles".
Agreed. So let's say my codebase uses a different build system (bazel). I'd like to introduce a dependency on a catkin package Foo. Bazel can build cmake projects, but I'm not sure how catkin fits in. Could I just create a bazel target to build catkin from source, and then have Foo depend on that?
catkin is simply providing some CMake syntactic sugar. For building you can treat a catkin package just like any other CMake package.
Asked: 2015-10-31 20:34:59 -0600
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