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Is there a way to create a catkin package that only provides precompiled libraries instead of building them, so that other catkin packages can depend on them and the libraries are present in the devel folder when the other packages are build?
Greetings, Thiemo
The question is better framed "is there a way to do this with CMake". catkin doesn't make any restrictions on this, but it also does not provide specific infrastructure to support it.
Distributing precompiled binaries is bad because it basically limits the package's availability to select platforms and architectures. That being said maybe you can look at the prosilica_gige_sdk:
https://github.com/ros-drivers/prosilica_gige_sdk
This package distributes binaries for several architectures.
You'll also want to review the legal consequences for distributing binaries which you got from somewhere else with do not provide the source code. If they do provide source code I highly advise you to use that instead.
I am not sure if this is what you are searching for, but for Hydro distro, stage package was split in two. One package is stage that contains stage libraries and the other package is stageros which contains the node that allows stage interact with ROS. So I suppose there is a way to do what you ask for.
Asked: 2013-07-05 04:39:07 -0600
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Last updated: Jul 05 '13
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Why pre-compiled libraries? For what architecture? Do you not have the sources?