:) Oh, and obviously, I need to start reading all my e-mails before replying, as Romain already described the solution here. Cheers, Radu. Romain Thibaux wrote: > While we wait for a better answer from someone else: > > I believe you are looking for either: >> rosdep install point_cloud_mapping > which should install any system dependencies, or: >> rosmake point_cloud_mapping > which should build ann and flann, on which point_cloud_mapping depends. > > Unless the problem is that you have checked out only > point_cloud_mapping and not the point_cloud_perception stack (which > contains ann and flann). You can get it via: >> svn co https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/point_cloud_perception/tags/latest point_cloud_perception > > I hope this helps, > > Romain > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Andreas Hermann wrote: >> Hi ROS-Users, >> >> I am new to ROS. I got our labs Hokuyo-scanner to work with ROS within >> minutes but got stuck with problems while trying to use a Swissranger 4k. >> The problem is that I don't find a way to include external libs, namely >> ANN, FLANN and cminpack which are required by point_cloud_mapping. >> Could someone give me a hint about the basics... Do I have to create a >> package manually and fill in the sources from the downloaded ANN/FLANN >> archives? Where is rosmake searching for the built libs? Or did I miss >> something and rosdep is able to install this stuff automatically? >> >> Has perhaps someone used the swissranger-driver-wrapper from Radu Bogdan >> Rusu? It uses messages from deprecated-msgs that I replaced by >> sensor_msgs. But it needs the mentioned external packages. I would of >> course contribute the updated driver, if I get it to work. >> >> Perhaps this toppic was already discussed here, but the search >> functionality of the archive at https://code.ros.org/discuss/ros-users/ >> seems to be broken (?). Also the link on the >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Andreas >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users -- | Radu Bogdan Rusu | http://rbrusu.com/