Hi Radu, hi Romain, thanks for your quick and helpful responses. The main problem was that I used the precompiled Ubuntu release and so I had no idea of the svn-structures. It is still a bit confusing, where to search for the different packages, but I found the deprecated_msgs I need for the Swissranger (: Still got some compiler errors in point_cloud_converter but I think thats a minor problem with incompatible checkouts (see below). And thanks for the nabbble hint. Cheers, Andreas /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:49:37: error: sensor_msgs/PointCloud2.h: No such file or directory /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:86: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘&’ token /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:86: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘&’ token /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:86: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘&’ token /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:97: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘void’ /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:98: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘&’ token /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:98: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘&’ token /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:98: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘&’ token /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:267: error: expected ‘;’ at end of input /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:267: error: expected ‘}’ at end of input /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp: In constructor ‘PointCloudConverter::PointCloudConverter()’: /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:72: error: ‘cloud_cb_pcd’ is not a member of ‘PointCloudConverter’ /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:73: error: ‘cloud_cb_ros’ is not a member of ‘PointCloudConverter’ /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp: At global scope: /home/hermann-local/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/point_cloud_converter/src/converter.cpp:78: error: expected unqualified-id at end of input make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/point_cloud_converter.dir/src/converter.o] Fehler 1 Radu Bogdan Rusu wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > The easiest thing to do is to update your ros-pkg and wg-ros-pkg trees. I am trying to slowly deprecate > point_cloud_mapping, though it might take at least half a year before we succeed in doing that, given that it's used by > a lot of packages at the moment. > > The replacement for point_cloud_mapping is PCL (Point Cloud Library), which is part of the point_cloud_perception stack. > The problems that you are seeing is because: > - the stack got moved from wg-ros-pkg into ros-pkg > - the name of the packages ANN and FLANN changed to ann and flann, to be more consistent with the rest of ROS > > The solution is to either update ros-pkg or checkout > https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/point_cloud_perception/tags/latest somewhere in your package path. > > There was a recent discussion regarding the swissranger driver, and I believe a few people that are actively using > SwissRanger cameras have improved the driver a bit, and will release those versions soon. When that happens, we will > deprecate the old driver to avoid confusion. > > Let us know if you have any other problems, and we'll be glad to help. > > PS. You can always try the nabble search functionality when our mail archive doesn't work. :) > > Cheers, > Radu. > > 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 >> > >