Re: [ros-users] orocos_kdl failure on OSX

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Subject: Re: [ros-users] orocos_kdl failure on OSX
Thanks!! I was able to build the entire orocos_kinematics_dynamics stack using your patch in ticket #4.



On Sep 3, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Nicholas Butko wrote:

> In the port install log, you will see the correct checksum. You can manually update the Portfile with the new checksum.
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> On Sep 3, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Kevin Walchko <> wrote:
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>> I am working on it right now …
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>> My problem is python_orocos_kdl is looking for eigen and I can't load it from macports due to a checksum miss match. Googling around, it appears that author likes to do stealth updates and I can't seem to figure out how to force macports to install eigen. Did you have this problem?
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>> On Sep 3, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Nicholas Butko wrote:
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>>> Kevin, can you build python_orocos_kdl? I fixed the cmake problems with orocos_kdl, similar to you, but I get a ton of undefined symbol link errors for the python version, which prevents many stacks from building. It is a huge point of failure for me right now.
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>>> On Sep 3, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Kevin Walchko <> wrote:
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>>>> Hi,
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>>>> [setup]
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>>>> ROS Electric
>>>> OSX Lion with Macports
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>>>> [Problem]
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>>>> Eigen3.cmake couldn't find eigen3
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>>>> [Solution]
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>>>> Instead of using the included cmake files in orocos_kdl/config/Eigen3.cmake I changed CMakeLists.txt to use pkg-config which macports automatically sets up for OSX. Don't know if Linux does this too.
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>>>> CMakeLists.txt:
>>>> include($ENV{ROS_ROOT}/core/rosbuild/FindPkgConfig.cmake)
>>>> pkg_check_modules(EIGEN3 REQUIRED eigen3)
>>>> include_directories(${EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIRS})
>>>> #INCLUDE(${PROJ_SOURCE_DIR}/config/FindEigen3.cmake)
>>>> #INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR})
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>>>> Not sure why the pkg-config wasn't used in the first place, it seems to work nice.
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>>>> The included Eigen3.cmake appears to be too limited in where it looks, at least for OSX. Could add /opt/local/include/eigen3 but didn't try.
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>>>> config/Eigen3.cmake:
>>>> FIND_PATH(EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR Eigen/Core /usr/include /usr/include/eigen3)
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>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Kevin
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