[ros-users] communicating with windows

[Daniel Stonier]

Just curious - as the willow garage guys have mentioned elsewhere, seems
that the major hurdle is the build system. I'm wondering how hard it would
be to do windows development with an ubuntu mingw toolchain.

I've tested cross-compiling with a partially crossed ros (native linux ros
building non-ros cross-compiled packages), and that seems to work no
problem. I wonder how hard it would be to go the extra step and do a full
cross with mingw (i.e. just basic stuff, roscpp, roslib etc). And how well
does mingw work with win7?

Regards,
Daniel Stonier

On 22 August 2010 17:17, Christian Verbeek <verbeek at servicerobotics.eu>wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> I would like to come back to the problem of communicating with a ROS
> system from windows. Especially in commercial applications it is highly
> appreciable to have a GUI for controlling, visualisation and
> parametrisation running on a Windows host as 99% of customers in
> industry run Windows. What ever one might think about this - its a fact
> and can not be ignored. The robot itself is equipped with a powerful
> Linux system running the whole ROS system.
>
> It is true that setting up a bridge from ROS to some other middle-ware
> like Ice is straight forward. On the other hand system complexity
> increases a lot when using a bridge. Also at least in the case of Ice
> licensing is a big issue when talking about commercial applications. The
> Ice license is extremely restrictive (and expensive).
>
> Some time ago I read about the intention to make roslib and roscpp OS
> independent. Is this really a big issue? In the situation described
> above one might need only a subset of the overall functionality.
> Starting in September 2010 I will have a trainee who's job will be to
> shed some light on this ROS-Windows stuff. Maybe we can discuss the
> steps to get roslib and roscpp compiling on Windows (using Visual Studio
> 2008 or later). Maybe someone started to work in this direction and can
> give some hints.
>
> Regards
> Christian
>
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