Re: [ros-users] Build ROS from source without using default …

Hi, William Woodall:

Thank you very much for your help. My question is now posted at
http://answers.ros.org/question/63615/build-ros-from-source-without-using-default-ffmpeg-in-ubuntu-1210/
I'm looking forward to your answer at your earliest convenience. Thanks
again.



Best Regards
Pei



On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 1:12 AM, William Woodall
<william@osrfoundation.org>wrote:

> Hi Pei,
>
> This sort of question belongs on answers.ros.org.
>
> I would be happy to help you over there. For future reference please see
> our Support policies: http://www.ros.org/wiki/Support
>
> Thanks!
>
> P.S. make sure to tag your question on answers.ros.org and send me a link
> to your question at my personal email <william@osrfoundation.org> and
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>
>
> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:29 AM, JIA Pei <jp4work@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi, all:
>>
>>
>> My environment:
>> OS: Ubuntu 12.10
>> OpenCV: 2.4.5 release
>> PCL: 1.6.0 release (built from source)
>> ffmpeg: 1.2 release (built from source)
>> VTK: 5.10.1 release (built from source)
>> boost: 1.50.0 (installed from the repository)
>>
>>
>> There are some reasons that I really don't want to use the default
>> ffmpeg -- libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev
>> VTK 5.8.0
>> boost 1.49
>> from the default repository.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now here comes my question:
>>
>> I did have my ffmpeg 1.2 installed:
>> please refer to http://visionopen.com/questions/ffmpeg.png
>> and vtk 5.10.1 installed
>> http://visionopen.com/questions/vtk.png
>>
>> but, when I tried to install ROS from source (refer to
>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Installation/Source),
>> the following command
>> :*~/ros_catkin_ws$ rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src
>> --rosdistro groovy -y*
>> still requires the following packages:
>> *libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libvtk5-dev
>> libvtk5.8*
>>
>> I'm thinking at least, there is something like in CMake which lets me to
>> select my own path/directory, rather than setup by *ROS* itself. There
>> should be existing such a freedom to let me specify which version and which
>> directory of ffmpeg, which version and which directory of vtk.
>> But, according to http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Installation/Source, I
>> can't find such a freedom. Can anybody help to let me know how to build *ROS
>> from source* based on the dependencies that I myself am able to specify?
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Pei JIA
>>

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