[ros-users] RViz on Windows

Geoffrey Biggs geoffrey.biggs at aist.go.jp
Wed Aug 4 02:47:47 UTC 2010


There is a patch on the tracker that makes ROS compile on Windows, but
it is quite old now and probably won't apply cleanly.

Geoff

On 04/08/10 11:01, William Woodall wrote:
> Hi guys, I took a quick look around and didn't find anything current or
> concrete on the topic, but I am trying to convince my lab to convert to
> ROS, but a lot of them are weary about limited Windows support.  I think
> it would go along way to up their adoption rates if some of the tools
> like RViz, rxconsole, and maybe the simulators ran on Windows.  I know
> that they are mostly written in Ogre3D and wxWidgets, so I think it
> should be possible, but understandably not a priority.  Has anyone had
> experiences or successes in using parts of ROS and its tools on Windows?
>  Any advice is welcome.



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