[ros-users] communicating with windows

[Josh Faust]

For development though it's nice to be able to run just against your local
system, without a needing a separate box (or vm).

Josh

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Christian Verbeek <
verbeek at servicerobotics.eu> wrote:

>  Earlier in this thread I pointed out that my intention is to be able to
> create shiny windows GUIs while the robot runs Linux and the whole ROS
> system. Running a rosmaster on windows would mean that you try to run
> your robot with windows? Not a good idea if you ask me.
>
> The windows GUI is asked by our customers from which 99% use windows and
> do not want to use anything else. Bringing ROS to industry means ROS
> hits windows. But the robot itself can run Linux as nobody is interested
> in what is going on in the machine (as long as it is working).
>
> Am 04.10.2010 17:54, schrieb Ken Conley:
> > FYI: it would probably be good to start generating patches for these
> > changes soon. When we begin work on REP 100 (soon), there will be a
> > lot of changes to the underlying ROS code base.
> >
> > Feel free to update the Windows wiki page. In fact, it might be better
> > to host the instructions on the ROS.org wiki itself so that other
> > users can continue to contribute updates as they have on this e-mail
> > thread.
> >
> > Also, I noticed that you require a separate Linux install to use the
> > rosmaster -- what's the integration issue here? We've previously had
> > people use the rosmaster on Windows just by changing the path loader
> > (roslib.load_manifest). Assuming that rospack is accessible, it should
> > be even easier to use the rosmaster, so I'm curious as to what the
> > issues are. I know that the roscore can't be run on Windows due to
> > roslaunch, but rosmaster can be run separately.
> >
> >  - Ken
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Christian Verbeek
> > <verbeek at servicerobotics.eu> wrote:
> >> We made a ROS WIN32 web-page.
> >>
> >> http://www.servicerobotics.eu/index.php?id=37&L=2
> >>
> >> We also provide a binary distribution in form of a windows installer and
> >> examples how to use it. You might like to link our web-page this into
> your
> >> wiki.
> >>
> >> http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation/Windows
> >>
> >> From my point of view our work is the first approach that is really
> usable
> >> for windows development. We will add Visual Studio 2010 support within
> the
> >> next weeks.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Christian
> >>
> >> Am 01.10.2010 22:35, schrieb Josh Faust:
> >>> I have now run into another problem, I am getting lots of linking
> errors
> >>> related to xmlrpc++, which make me think that it is an incompatibility
> with
> >>> vs2010, because this is the same type of exceptions I got from log4cxx
> >>> before I found a vs2010 compatibility fix on a forum (see my previous
> >>> email).  However, xmlrpc++ hasn't been updated on sf since 2003 and I
> am not
> >>> finding anything about these problems or even anything related to
> vs2010 and
> >>> xmlrpcpp.  Here are the exceptions: http://pastry.se/1041001/.  I have
> >>> downloaded the source for xmlrpc++ and tried to compile it with vs2010,
> but
> >>> when converting the .sln's to vs2010 all of them failed to convert for
> some
> >>> reason or another, I haven't had time to investigate this issue yet.
> >> The version of xmlrpc++ we use is heavily modified, so you need to use
> the
> >> source from the ROS package.  It looks like it's included in that svn
> repo,
> >> under cturtle/3rdparty
> >> Josh
> >>
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