Hello,

You can download and install Gazebo independently from ROS. It's also
possible to get the same version as used in ROS. The easiest way to
accomplish this is to look in
simulator_gazebo/gazebo/Makefile.gazebo.hg.
There should be lines that should look like:

HG_DIR = build/gazebo-hg
HG_URL = https://kforge.ros.org/gazebo/hg
HG_BRANCH = wg2

You can clone the gazebo repository, update to the wg2 branch, and
give that a shot.

Alternatively, you can get the latest gazebo-1.0.0-RC1 release from
gazebosim.org

Player support has lagged over the past year. With ROS support mostly
complete we'll switch over to re-integrating Player with Gazebo. Shoot
me an email if you would like to help out.

-nate


On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Michael Zillich
<zillich@acin.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we have a large robotics project here that (still) uses player as robot
> middleware and gazebo as a simulator. After an update to the latest ubuntu
> 11.10 gazebo 0.9 no longer works, and 0.10 also has problems compiling etc.
> and we want to avoid spending time on getting it to run, also because it
> seems that the only version of gazebo that is actually currently maintained
> is the one inside ROS.
>
> gazebo in ROS installs like a charm, loads our world files and runs
> smoothly. So far so good.
>
> But player can not connect to this running instance of gazebo, which runs as
> a ros node rather than a normal executable. There is no libgazeboplugin.so
> which normally allows player to connect to gazebo. I kind of expected that.
>
> However, is there a possibility to get the exact version of gazebo as it is
> compiled into a ROS node, with all the patches applied that are missing in
> e.g. 0.10, or trunk (and these patches are crucial in making the whole thing
> run properly) and then simply compile as a normal standalone project?
>
> following
>  http://answers.ros.org/question/1972/version-of-stage-and-gazebo-in-diamondback#3223
> and thus getting
>  http://pr.willowgarage.com/downloads/gazebo-r8967.tgz
> and applying
>  patches/8993_8998_wg_branch_patches.patch
> patches/bbVisual_offset_bug_fix.patch patches/gazebo_pid.patch
> plus some more very minor patches of our own only resulted in an executable
> that segfaulted immediately. So that does not seem to be the right way, or I
> did something stupid on the way.
>
> Sorry if this is not exactly a ROS question, but the gazebo development
> seems to have moved to ROS, hence I expect the experts to also be in this
> mailing list.
>
> grateful for any help,
> Michael
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