[ros-users] Cross-compilation and library locations

[Tom Panzarella]

>
> I loosely followed the gumros tutorial to built log4cxx and apr and  
> from there used a manufacturer supplied cmake toolchain file for  
> cross-compiling ros.
> It seemd to have worked so far, however after I copied the ros
> directories to the Nao robot, the binaries refuse to work as they  
> cannot
> find the necessary libraries.
> E.g., rospack cannot find librospack.so.
> I assume this is because ros is linked with the rpath option  
> pointing to
> an absolute path. The path to the ros libraries on my desktop used to
> cross-compile is different from the path where the libraries are  
> located on the Nao.
> The easiest workaround would probably be to just make the paths
> identical. However, I was wondering if there was a nicer solution,  
> which
> would allow the ros folders to be moved without the need to rebuilt  
> all
> of ros just to set the library paths.

Dan,

Nothing specific to ROS, but did you set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH  
environment variable to include the directory to where the ROS shared  
object files live?

Thanks,
Tom.