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I have successfully installed ROS and managed to launch Gazebo and rviz with the command line commands based on a tutorial video, but I don't know how to set up a Catkin workspace in a Windows environment. All Catkin tutorials were from a Ubuntu base using a Ubuntu terminal. Can anybody walk me through the process or provide a link to a tutorial?
Since you have installed ROS on Windows successfully, you should be able to complete the tutorials as most catkin commands are available with the installation.
For example you could use:
catkin_create_pkg helloworld roscpp rospy std_msgs
If you want to integrate to Visual Studio, I suggest take a look at this tutorial, it's not the most updated tutorial but it will give you a good idea.
Asked: 2022-02-22 09:57:15 -0600
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Last updated: Feb 23 '22
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First of all I would not recommend using ROS 1 in windows and you should just use Ubuntu via a virtual machine or the real thing and I would only suggest using Windows for ROS if you were using ROS 2
I've read online elsewhere that ROS2 is not recommended for beginners as it's mainly in a testing phase (although I guess that's true of ROS For Windows), but my Ubuntu VM is kinda slow when I run more bulky applications like Unity and Gazebo. I also don't have a flash drive to dual boot on BIOS, so I'd still like to know.
I'd say the slightly more positive way to describe it would be: "it's in a state of development".
ROS 2 is being used by quite a few companies and organisations to base products and research projects on. It's (ie: ROS 2) an ongoing development effort which will never be "finished", so describing it as being "in a testing phase" is not really something you can say I believe.
Might be worthwhile to install and learn both. However, I have found that the problem with ROS 2 at present is that it only has 200 libraries, so you can accomplish more with ROS1 with over 2000 packages. So might be worth my time to utilize both.