[ros-users] PR2 development on a MAC

Fri Sep 10 22:05:09 UTC 2010

am doing a dual boot with 10.04 Lucid and OSX 10.6.4 on a MBP
Works perfectly nice, I have cturtle pr2_all and all the pr2 stuff work

On 10 September 2010 23:22, <DRamachandran at hra.com> wrote:

> Patrick,
>
>
>
>       I have successfully got the following to work on  a mac:
>
>       -> Box turtle on 10.5 with nav_view working but not rviz
>
>       -> Cturtle on 10.6 without ogre_tools compiling (yet) and so no
> nav_view/rviz.
>
>        -> Dual boot install of Ubuntu 9.1 + ros 0.8 and all the above tools
> working.
>
>
>
>          These were all base_installs so no PR2 support (but it was enough
> to develop on another robotic platform we are building). Earliers mails on
> this thread indicated that it is not possible to get PR2
>
>        support anytime soon but that might not apply to simulation.
>
>
>
>           I basically followed the instructions on the OSX page of the ros
> wiki. For 10.6 you need to do some tweaks to make the python frameworks
>
>       play nice ( I think those are kind of explained in that page now).
>
>
>
>         As the Mac documentation states, packages on top of the
> base_install have not been tested and might have broken dependencies or need
> changes to work. I have had some luck getting
>
> help from the ROS package maintainers to get some stuff to work, but you
> might be better off trying the virtual box or dual boot option if you neeed
> PR2 but aren't tied to Mac OS X.
>
>
>
>        Anyway, I can try to answer specific issues you have run into on a
> Mac install.
>
>
>
> ~Deepak
>
>
>
>
>
> *Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com>*
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> 09/10/2010 01:59 PMPlease respond toros-users at code.ros.org
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>  To   ros-users at code.ros.org
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>  bcc   Deepak Ramachandran/HRA/ASC/HONDA
>  Subject   Re: [ros-users] PR2 development on a MAC
>
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> I believe Deepak was referring to installing ROS libraries unrelated
> to the PR2.
>
> As mentioned in the previous e-mail exchanges, you should use an
> Ubuntu setup to use the PR2. It is highly unlikely that you will get a
> proper set of PR2 libraries working on OS X. A Virtual Box setup will
> work if you are not doing visualizations or using the gazebo
> simulator. The best setup would be a dual-boot.
>
> - Ken
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am interested in using a Macintosh (running 10.6.4) as a development
> > platform for PR2 projects.  Right now, I don't know what I don't know.
> >
> > I followed the instructions given on the Wiki
> > (http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation/OSX) for installing the
> > software on a Mac.  While the software seemed to install fine (once I
> > created a case-sensitive disk image in which to install the code), the
> > tutorial falls apart at the "rosdep install turtle_teleop" step due to
> > a lack of Bluetooth and other libraries.  (I described this here:
> > https://code.ros.org/discuss/ros-users/browse_frm/thread/2061/8495).
> >
> > I found a thread
> > (https://code.ros.org/discuss/ros-users/browse_frm/thread/2086/8604)
> > where the poster (Deepak) claimed that CTurtle was successfully
> > installed on MAC OS 10.6, but he unable to get Ogre working.
> >
> > As I said, right now I don't know what I don't know.  And I would like
> > to rectify that.  I don't really know how much of what I don't know is
> > related to ROS, CTurtle, Ogre, Gazebo, or MAC OS incompatibilities in
> > general.
> >
> > So I'll ask the questions... please feel free to point me at
> > documentation I should have already read...
> >
> > What is involved in running a PR2 simulation development environment on a
> MAC?
> >
> > It seems to me that I would need to follow the MAC OS instructions
> > given on the Wiki and use rosinstall.  Is that the same as saying "I
> > have installed CTurtle"  or did Deepak mean something else when he
> > said that?
> >
> > I see in the Wiki several components require OGRE and I see
> > instructions for installing that.  I also see Deepak's post saying
> > that he tried that and ran into problems.  If I want to do PR2
> > development, do I need to install OGRE?
> >
> > If we were to assume that (for some reason) I had better luck than
> > Deepak, what else would I need to install?  I think I saw something
> > about installing NVIDIA Cg from the nvidia site.  What else would be
> > required?
> >
> > I just noticed a comment on the OS X page that "At the time of
> > writing, gazebo does not built on OS X, for reasons unrelated to
> > OGRE".  Is that still true?  Am I doomed to failure if I get to this
> > point?
> >
> > That's probably enough for now.  Thanks for reading this far.
> >
> > --wpd
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