Here at the lab we have ubuntu on all the robots. However on my computer I
use OS X, except when I need to work on ROS, I have to switch to ubuntu. So
I mostly want to code and use rviz under OS X :D

Gonçalo Cabrita
ISR University of Coimbra
Portugal

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:25 AM, William Woodall <wjwwood@gmail.com> wrote:

> Depends =D, we are still wrestling with pretty common libraries like
> move_base but we are trying to catalog our efforts and report tickets.  So
> for bag file playback/data visualization, maybe OS X is ok, but for running
> OS X on your robot... not so sure yet.
>
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> 2011/6/18 Gonçalo Cabrita <goncabrita@gmail.com>
>
>> Thank you William!!!!!!!!!!!! Could it be that I'll finally uninstall
>> Ubuntu!? I miss XCode sooooo much! :D
>>
>> Gonçalo Cabrita
>> ISR University of Coimbra
>> Portugal
>>
>>  On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:00 AM, William Woodall <wjwwood@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  My friends, John and Michael, and I have compiled a
>>> guide/troubleshooting list for getting RViz (and other tools) working on OS
>>> X with the latest diamondback from SVN.  I don't think there is any new
>>> information here, but rather a survey of the common problems encountered.
>>>  The main idea is making ROS build as 32-bit only and using +universal
>>> macports everywhere, this comes from Dave's comment on this ticket:
>>> https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4788#comment:8
>>>
>>> [image: RViz-on-OSX.png]
>>>
>>> Additionally there are other patches and tricks listed in the
>>> troubleshooting sections, all of which are ticketed and/or fixed in later
>>> SVN revisions, so hopefully this guide won't even be necessary in the near
>>> future, but for now I hope will help some people.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/wjwwood/au-automow/wiki/Ros-osx-i386
>>>
>>> If this seems useful enough to put on the ros.org wiki, I would be glad
>>> to move it if someone would just point to the place.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
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>>> William Woodall
>>> Graduate Software Engineering
>>> Auburn University
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>>> williamjwoodall.com
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