[ros-users] communicating with windows

[Brian Gerkey]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Christian Verbeek
<verbeek at servicerobotics.eu> wrote:
> we successfully ported roscpp, roslib, actionlib, tf and messages to
> windows with cmake as build system to generate Visual Studio projects.
> Now we can enable our windows GUI to talk to the ROS system running
> somewhere else without the need of bridges.
>
> The question is: Would you provide a platform for (and implicitly
> support) such a windows port? Maybe its interesting enough so that we
> can make an ongoing project out of it.

hi Christian,

That's great news.  As Ken mentioned, we'll happily accept patches,
the smaller the better.  I'd also like to set up a Windows build slave
so that we can start building and regressing our code on that platform
(http://build.willowgarage.com).  I'm pretty ignorant of Windows
development tools; what would you recommend for a system configuration
to build ROS on Windows (OS version, VisualStudio/compiler version,
other stuff to be installed, etc.)?  I'm guessing that it'll be
easiest for us to replicate whatever environment you're currently
working with.

	brian.