[ros-users] running ROS on FreeBSD

[Rene Ladan]

Hi Tully (and list),

a bit late reply from me.

I think the patches for rosdep were mostly complete (I now have to adapt them
to ROS 1.1.0).  Yesterday evening I could bootstrap ROS up to somewhere in
rosconsole, where the compiler (gcc 4.2.1) would error out.

If nobody objects I'll send in some FreeBSD-support tickets with trac.  By 'next
release' you mean 1.2.0 ? Is there a rough timeline for that?

Can I just do a 'make clean' in my ROS checkout or would a clean checkout with
re-applied patches be better?

Regards,
Rene

2010/3/10 Tully Foote <tfoote at willowgarage.com>:
> Hi Rene,
>
> Thanks for putting in the work to port to FreeBSD.  I looked at your diff.
> How close to complete are your patches for rosdep?  The look pretty good.
> If they are operational I'd like to look at integrating them into the next
> release.
>
> Also, if you are hitting any stumbling points relating to ROS in building
> packages for FreeBSD feel free to ask for help.
>
> Tully
>
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Rene Ladan <rene at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm rather new to ROS. It's being used at work for a few weeks now,
>> but that didn't lower my enthusiasm for it.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, I started looking if it would be feasible to run ROS
>> on FreeBSD. I made some patches against the core ROS code (
>> https://code.ros.org/svn/ros/stacks/ros/tags/latest ). Currently it
>> can bootstrap itself (including installing packages with pkg_add) up
>> to roslib. It encounters some compile errors related to boost there,
>> these are most likely due to search paths being different than
>> expected.
>>
>> The patch [1] is currently work-in-progress. Once I can get it to
>> bootstrap and install contributed stacks, I'll look into making ROS
>> packages for FreeBSD (the other way around) so that FreeBSD users can
>> do something like "pkg_add -r ros-core".
>>
>> [1] : ftp://rene-ladan.nl/pub/ros/
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rene
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