am doing a dual boot with 10.04 Lucid and OSX 10.6.4 on a MBP
Works perfectly nice, I have cturtle pr2_all and all the pr2 stuff work
On 10 September 2010 23:22, <
DRamachandran@hra.com> wrote:
> Patrick,
>
>
>
> I have successfully got the following to work on a mac:
>
> -> Box turtle on 10.5 with nav_view working but not rviz
>
> -> Cturtle on 10.6 without ogre_tools compiling (yet) and so no
> nav_view/rviz.
>
> -> Dual boot install of Ubuntu 9.1 + ros 0.8 and all the above tools
> working.
>
>
>
> These were all base_installs so no PR2 support (but it was enough
> to develop on another robotic platform we are building). Earliers mails on
> this thread indicated that it is not possible to get PR2
>
> support anytime soon but that might not apply to simulation.
>
>
>
> I basically followed the instructions on the OSX page of the ros
> wiki. For 10.6 you need to do some tweaks to make the python frameworks
>
> play nice ( I think those are kind of explained in that page now).
>
>
>
> As the Mac documentation states, packages on top of the
> base_install have not been tested and might have broken dependencies or need
> changes to work. I have had some luck getting
>
> help from the ROS package maintainers to get some stuff to work, but you
> might be better off trying the virtual box or dual boot option if you neeed
> PR2 but aren't tied to Mac OS X.
>
>
>
> Anyway, I can try to answer specific issues you have run into on a
> Mac install.
>
>
>
> ~Deepak
>
>
>
>
>
> *Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com>*
> Sent by: ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org
> 09/10/2010 01:59 PMPlease respond toros-users@code.ros.org
>
> To ros-users@code.ros.org
> cc
> bcc Deepak Ramachandran/HRA/ASC/HONDA
> Subject Re: [ros-users] PR2 development on a MAC
>
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> I believe Deepak was referring to installing ROS libraries unrelated
> to the PR2.
>
> As mentioned in the previous e-mail exchanges, you should use an
> Ubuntu setup to use the PR2. It is highly unlikely that you will get a
> proper set of PR2 libraries working on OS X. A Virtual Box setup will
> work if you are not doing visualizations or using the gazebo
> simulator. The best setup would be a dual-boot.
>
> - Ken
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am interested in using a Macintosh (running 10.6.4) as a development
> > platform for PR2 projects. Right now, I don't know what I don't know.
> >
> > I followed the instructions given on the Wiki
> > (http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation/OSX) for installing the
> > software on a Mac. While the software seemed to install fine (once I
> > created a case-sensitive disk image in which to install the code), the
> > tutorial falls apart at the "rosdep install turtle_teleop" step due to
> > a lack of Bluetooth and other libraries. (I described this here:
> > https://code.ros.org/discuss/ros-users/browse_frm/thread/2061/8495).
> >
> > I found a thread
> > (https://code.ros.org/discuss/ros-users/browse_frm/thread/2086/8604)
> > where the poster (Deepak) claimed that CTurtle was successfully
> > installed on MAC OS 10.6, but he unable to get Ogre working.
> >
> > As I said, right now I don't know what I don't know. And I would like
> > to rectify that. I don't really know how much of what I don't know is
> > related to ROS, CTurtle, Ogre, Gazebo, or MAC OS incompatibilities in
> > general.
> >
> > So I'll ask the questions... please feel free to point me at
> > documentation I should have already read...
> >
> > What is involved in running a PR2 simulation development environment on a
> MAC?
> >
> > It seems to me that I would need to follow the MAC OS instructions
> > given on the Wiki and use rosinstall. Is that the same as saying "I
> > have installed CTurtle" or did Deepak mean something else when he
> > said that?
> >
> > I see in the Wiki several components require OGRE and I see
> > instructions for installing that. I also see Deepak's post saying
> > that he tried that and ran into problems. If I want to do PR2
> > development, do I need to install OGRE?
> >
> > If we were to assume that (for some reason) I had better luck than
> > Deepak, what else would I need to install? I think I saw something
> > about installing NVIDIA Cg from the nvidia site. What else would be
> > required?
> >
> > I just noticed a comment on the OS X page that "At the time of
> > writing, gazebo does not built on OS X, for reasons unrelated to
> > OGRE". Is that still true? Am I doomed to failure if I get to this
> > point?
> >
> > That's probably enough for now. Thanks for reading this far.
> >
> > --wpd
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