catkin_make error: invoking "cmake" failed

asked 2016-03-19 01:24:31 -0600

Fuzzball
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updated 2016-03-19 07:26:45 -0600

I'm on ubuntu 14.04 I'm using ROS indigo. I am new to ROS. I know there are similar questions on here but their answers didn't help me.

I've been following some ROS/catkin tutorials and am currently on this one: http://wiki.ros.org/catkin/Tutorials/... .

The instructions all worked fine until I got to catkin_make. Roscore was running in a separate terminal at the time.

I took a snapshot of the error and was going to upload it but apparently I don't have enough points. (If you want to teach newbies to write questions in an easy-to-follow way, it'd be useful to allow them to upload screenshots.)

I uploaded the screenshot to photobucket instead:

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[..] it'd be useful to allow them to upload screenshots.

Personally I'd rather ppl copy/paste the console text, as it is then indexed by search engines, whereas images are not. Also: img hosts have different retention policies, which can lead to screenshots disappearing.

gvdhoorn ( 2016-03-19 02:24:22 -0600 )edit

I'm on windows 8.1 [..]

Can you please tell us how you installed ROS, which VM product you are using and what arch this is?

gvdhoorn ( 2016-03-19 02:29:15 -0600 )edit

I'm not sure what a VM product is or what an arch is. I just realized that windows 8.1 was incorrect (I got confused cos this computer has two operating systems), I'm using ROS on Ubuntu 14.04. I installed ROS by following the steps in this link: http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installati...

Fuzzball ( 2016-03-19 07:26:20 -0600 )edit

VM == virtual machine, arch == processor architecture. As you reported you were running Windows 8.1, the only way to have ROS running would be in a virtual machine, hence my question.

gvdhoorn ( 2016-03-19 08:51:21 -0600 )edit

Hi.I have met the same situation. Have you solved it yet? Thanks for your help.