Hello, If you only need colored point clouds from the kinect, just use the kinect package. From the documentation, it seems the same as kinect_pcl except it is not in a nodelet. It works very well and produces colored sensor_msgs/PointCloud2 messages directly. Follow the steps described http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinect/Tutorials/Getting%20Started here to get it working in 2 minutes. If you really need the pcl point cloud format, you can convert the PointCloud2 using pcl::fromROSMsg(). It you really want to use kinect_pcl, I think you will have to dig in the http://www.ros.org/wiki/nodelet nodelet pakage. I hope it helps Raph -- View this message in context: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/how-to-use-kinect-pcl-in-C-project-tp2249229p2249288.html Sent from the ROS-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.