[ros-users] ROS Tutorial under OSX 10.6

[Nicholas Butko]

Felix, 

The problems with turtle_teleop are different than the ones for wx* that are the normal hangup. The turtle_teleop package requires linux bluetooth drivers, which is simply not the way things work on OSX. I'm not sure if osx has libbluetooth by default, or something else instead, but I tried looking around and didn't see a mac version of libbluetooth. 

Thus all the code for remote controls (playstation joysticks, etc.) seems like it will not work easily on osx.

However, turtle_teleop_keyboard works well. 

So, you can go to the turtle_teleop CMakeLists and comment out turtle_teleop_joystick, and go to manifest.xml and comment out the ps3joy, joy, wiimote, and spacenav_node dependencies. Then you should be able to build turtle_teleop and use the keyboard for input. 

I'm not sure if there's an easy way in ros's build system to encode platform specific build options, like "don't try to build turtle_teleop_joystick on OSX" 

--Nick 


 
On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:38 AM, Felix Ingrand wrote:

> I am trying to run the ROS Tutorial under an OSX 10.6 machine, but I am getting stuck here. Anybody managed to get beyond this point? or should I just run a VirtualBox with Fedora or Ubuntu.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> bash-3.2$ rosdep install turtle_teleop
> Failed to find rosdep bluez for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep libbluetooth-dev for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep python-bluez for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep libx11-dev for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep flex for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep libusb for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep bison for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports version:macports
> Failed to find rosdep joystick for package turtle_teleop on OS:macports version:macports
> ERROR: ABORTING: Rosdeps [u'bluez', u'libbluetooth-dev', u'python-bluez', u'libx11-dev', u'flex', u'libusb', u'bison', u'joystick'] could not be resolved
> bash-3.2$ roswtf
> 
> 
> 
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