[ros-users] 3rd party libs

[Radu Bogdan Rusu]

:) Oh, and obviously, I need to start reading all my e-mails before replying, as Romain already described the solution here.

Cheers,
Radu.

Romain Thibaux wrote:
> While we wait for a better answer from someone else:
> 
> I believe you are looking for either:
>> rosdep install point_cloud_mapping
> which should install any system dependencies, or:
>> rosmake point_cloud_mapping
> which should build ann and flann, on which point_cloud_mapping depends.
> 
> Unless the problem is that you have checked out only
> point_cloud_mapping and not the point_cloud_perception stack (which
> contains ann and flann). You can get it via:
>> svn co https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/point_cloud_perception/tags/latest point_cloud_perception
> 
> I hope this helps,
> 
>   Romain
> 
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Andreas Hermann <hermann at fzi.de> wrote:
>> Hi ROS-Users,
>>
>> I am new to ROS. I got our labs Hokuyo-scanner to work with ROS within
>> minutes but got stuck with problems while trying to use a Swissranger 4k.
>> The problem is that I don't find a way to include external libs, namely
>> ANN, FLANN and cminpack which are required by point_cloud_mapping.
>> Could someone give me a hint about the basics... Do I have to create a
>> package manually and fill in the sources from the downloaded ANN/FLANN
>> archives? Where is rosmake searching for the built libs? Or did I miss
>> something and rosdep is able to install this stuff automatically?
>>
>> Has perhaps someone used the swissranger-driver-wrapper from Radu Bogdan
>> Rusu? It uses messages from deprecated-msgs that I replaced by
>> sensor_msgs. But it needs the mentioned external packages. I would of
>> course contribute the updated driver, if I get it to work.
>>
>> Perhaps this toppic was already discussed here, but the search
>> functionality of the archive at https://code.ros.org/discuss/ros-users/
>> seems to be broken (?). Also the link on the
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andreas
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