[ros-users] Ros on Windows

[Jonathan Bohren]

All,

I was looking at the documentation for getting ROS running on Windows, and
it was mentioned somewhere that one of the issues is that there's no
open-source dependency management on Windows. After a brief search, I came
across a new (very new) MS-supported initiative called "CoApp" (Common
Application Publishing Platform). It's basically a package manager for
open-source software on Windows. It seems like they're still in the very
early stages of designing the system, but it's clear that they've both put a
lot of thought into it already and have the experience and support to
actually make it a reality.

Has anyone looked into this already? It seems like it could really be a boon
for the development of an easy and viable ROS environment on Windows (since
we've all been spoiled by the debian package manager), and if anyone is
interested, it might be worth getting involved in their design discussions.

For more info, see: http://coapp.org/ and
http://coapp.org/Getting_Started/CoApp_Project_Governance

best,
-j

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Daniel Stonier <d.stonier at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi ros users,
>
> Ok, something more of an official announcement for the win-ros-pkg<http://code.google.com/p/win-ros-pkg/>
>  repository.
>
> We have a mingw compiled ros working (minimally for windows) and also
> started a stack to handle development of the tools and utilities. Some links
> if you are interested in diving in::
>
> Some tutorials
>
>    - http://www.ros.org/wiki/diamondback/Installation/Windows
>    - http://www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros
>    -
>    http://www.ros.org/wiki/mingw_cross/Tutorials/Mingw%20Build%20Environment
>    -
>    http://www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros/Tutorials/Mingw%20Runtime%20Environment
>    - http://www.ros.org/wiki/win_ros/standalone_clients
>
> To contact us, bug reporting, feature requests:
>
>    - http://www.ros.org/wiki/win-ros-pkg/Contact
>
> Note that this is only early days yet - only the core packages have been
> patched and we're also working on native msvc support, but any and all are
> welcome to test and even better, contribute.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel Stonier.
>
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