Thanks Nate! I eventually managed to compile and run a version from trunk, following ros/electric/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/Makefile.gazebo.trunk, and applying some smaller patches of our own. Literally minutes before the release candidate came out :) So I guess the way to go from now on is to concentrate on 1.0.0-RC1 (which runs a lot smoother!) and not touch the various previous branches. cheers, Michael On 12/12/2011 06:26 PM, Nate Koenig wrote: > 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 > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- Dr. Michael Zillich ACIN Institute of Automation and Control Vienna University of Technology (DVR-Number 0005886) Gusshausstr 27-29/E376, 1040 Vienna, Austria zillich@acin.tuwien.ac.at http://users.acin.tuwien.ac.at/mzillich Tel: +43 1 58801 376648 Fax: +43 1 58801 37698