The IDE page in the wiki is a good place to collect these tips (even
when they're incomplete):
http://www.ros.org/wiki/IDEs
brian.
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Ingo Lütkebohle
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iluetkeb@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> Benoit,
>
> On 28.05.2010 01:40, Benoit Larochelle wrote:
>> 1) Is it possible to set-up a development environment in an IDE (ideally
>> Netbeans) so that the IDE understands the code, the dependencies, and
>> whatever else it needs. I want to be able to click to the buttons
>> "compile" and "run" just like a Java project, for example. (I imagine
>> that the "compile" button would have to call "rosmake" and the "run"
>> button would have to call "rosrun".)
>
> Short answer: Yes ;-)
>
> Basically, you first set up the project as usual (i.e., call cmake).
> Call rosmake once to make sure all dependencies are built. Then create a
> NetBeans C++ project "with existing sources". When using this project
> type, NetBeans will call "make" by default and this is fine, it will
> build your project, because CMake works by creating a Makefile. You only
> need to call rosmake when you want to check all dependencies and it
> takes much longer than make, so you usually don't do that all the time.
>
> For running, simply put the required rosrun commands into your projects
> "run" configuration.
>
> It is not a total integration, because you still have to add files by
> editing the CMakeLists.txt. Also, NetBeans will not pick up the includes
> from the Makefile, you have to configure those manually. They don't
> change often, though, so this is usually fine.
>
> On the upside, you can just compile and run from the IDE and it will
> navigate your headers once you have set up the include paths. Thats
> about all you can get from most IDEs, when not using their custom
> project formats.
>
> cheers,
> Ingo
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