I have also seen people use rosbridge and websockets to write graphical programs for Windows and communicate with ROS via the rosbridge system: http://wiki.ros.org/rosbridge_suite ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ William Woodall wjwwood@gmail.com williamjwoodall.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Mike Purvis wrote: > Another way is to use rosserial . We've > found rosserial_server quite performant, and it's straightforward to copy a > few headers from the Ubuntu box to the Windows one and then integrate them > with the Windows-only stuff (especially SDKs like Kinect 2 and Myo). > > There isn't an official rosserial-for-Windows port, but we may try to > release something at some point, especially if there's interest. > > Note also that this may be a question better suited to the answers site: > http://answers.ros.org/questions/query:Windows/ > > > On 15 April 2014 05:23, Kei Okada wrote: > >> we found that rosjava works on Windows. We compiled rosjava on Linux and >> copy class files to Windows and run. >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Tobias Opitz wrote: >> >>> Hi Vinay, >>> >>> Have you looked at the *win_ros wiki-page*? >>> The instruction to build ROS on Windows works really great and as far as I >>> can tell, the core of ROS runs great even on Windows. The sources of ROS >>> could be find at GitHub . >>> >>> During the last months I have build ROS multiple times on Windows >>> (VS2008, VS2010 and recently VS2012) sometimes for 32 and yesterday for 64 >>> Bit and the main difficulties for me was to build the dependencies itself >>> or building ROS when there are more than one Python version installed on >>> your machine (Python 32 or 64 Bit, 2.7.6 or 3.4). >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Tobias >>> >>> Am 15.04.2014 10:25, schrieb Vinay Kushwaha: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I have been working into Robotics and automation. Recently while >>> working on some project i came across ROS. I found it very helpful >>> tool. But some of my sensors and devices come only with Windows >>> driver. I found that ROS windows is still experimental. >>> I just wanted to know, how this ROS is implemented in Linux. I >>> could see ros::init, etc. so on many APIs. Where can i get the source >>> code for them ? I could find ros.h, init.h but can`t find the >>> respective C or C++ file. >>> >>> I have been working on writing OS Agnostic applications. So i was like >>> if ROS is written in Posix then i already have a way to directly run >>> it on windows with little effort. This way i would be very happy to >>> utilize this tool. Once done, same can be used by other people who are >>> waiting for ROS windows. >>> >>> Can anyone please help me on the same. So that we can have a great >>> solution for ROS Windows as well. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Vinay >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing listros-users@lists.ros.orghttp://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@lists.ros.org >>> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@lists.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >