[ros-users] communicating with windows

Geoffrey Biggs geoffrey.biggs at aist.go.jp
Tue Sep 14 22:32:04 UTC 2010


On 15/09/10 02:27, Brian Gerkey wrote:
> 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.

I recommend testing on Windows Vista and Windows 7, with Visual Studio
versions 2005, 2008 and 2010. You will also, obviously, need to test
against multiple versions of CMake based on the versions ROS supports.

Geoff



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