Re: [ros-users] ROS in MacOSX (just concerns)

Kevin, I haven't even touched the Kinect yet, but the ROS interface, last I
checked, uses the openni driver. I know that there is a release of openni
for OS X, but I cannot comment on its quality. I would imagine that there
should be no major road blocks to getting the Kinect, and related packages,
working in ROS on OS X, but there might be some small fixes needed. If you
like, you can try to get the Kinect working in OS X and if you run into
specific issues I would be happy to help you through them. Having the
Kinect work on the mac is of interest to me because of my research, but I
don't have time to go down that road right now.

Hope that helps,

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
William Woodall
Graduate Software Engineering
Auburn University
w@auburn.edu
wjwwood@gmail.com
williamjwoodall.com
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Kevin Walchko <kevin.walchko@gmail.com>wrote:

> William,
>
> Thanks for all of your hard work. Question, your instructions don't
> reference the Kinect, unless I missed it somewhere. Have you looked to see
> if that is working on Lion with ROS electric?
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin
>
>
> On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:13 PM, William Woodall wrote:
>
> To add to what John said, no this is not going to be as easy as Linux for
> now (we are working on that). OpenCV should work, and usb cameras might
> work, but I haven't tried them.
>
> I don't know about the make eclipse-project command not working, could you
> give more detail on this (errors?)?
>
> Also, the wiki page is out of date, use these directions:
> https://github.com/wjwwood/ros-osx/blob/master/electric-lion-homebrew/README.md
>
> I would say that OS X right now is not ready for production work if you
> want rviz and the like to work. If you are looking to get things done I
> would recommend using Linux until OS X support improves a little more over
> the next few months.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> William Woodall
> Graduate Software Engineering
> Auburn University
> w@auburn.edu
> wjwwood@gmail.com
> williamjwoodall.com
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:35 PM, John Harrison <ash.gti@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Did you follow the instructions on
>> https://github.com/wjwwood/ros-osx/tree/master/electric-lion-homebrew ?
>>
>> William and I have been working to get everything working on OS X, at this
>> point we have made progress but its not as well tested as the linux
>> distributions.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/wjwwood/ros-osx/wiki/ROS,-Electric-Emys,-on-OS-X-10.7-Lion-using-HomebrewHas a list of the packages we have gotten to work with OS X 10.7.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Carlos J. <ubuntuslave@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to use ROS in MacOSX after successfully installing (not
>>> completely tested yet...stuff like rviz doesn't work...Ogre is ugly to
>>> install and it fails through macports). I'm not sure what to expect ...will
>>> other things be as simple to just install and play like in Linux? Will
>>> OpenCV work? will my uvc cameras work?
>>>
>>> I would like people's opinions about this transition (please, don't bash
>>> me for the ridiculous question). I would like to have a feel of how many
>>> actual mac users are having ROS working successfully. As I said, my roscore
>>> works and got the desktop-full install fine (no errors), but I ran into the
>>> case where rviz is there but it's NOT there really...
>>>
>>> Why does stuff like "make eclipse-project" doesn't work in here?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the positive/negative vibes to whoever feels my position.
>>>
>>> Carlos
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
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