[ros-users] progress on ROS on OS X

[Brian Gerkey]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:34 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, we have been testing on Lion.  I am sad to say that wx is simply not
> working on it.  I would love to be proven wrong here, but even the 2.9
> "cocoa" version doesn't work on Lion because *we think* they are using
> deprecated cocoa calls that were removed from snow leopard to lion.  My
> colleague John <ash.gti at gmail.com> has been working on getting things
> rolling in Lion, maybe he would like to comment further.

Yikes, that's discouraging.  Well, we can still push through and get
the non-wx stuff working and tested.

> But, I am glad that this is becoming a priority, I look forward to better
> support in the future!

Me, too!  So please do suggest stacks to be added to the build, and
please do contribute source rosdeps for system depdendencies that
aren't available in MacPorts.

	brian.

> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey at willowgarage.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> Thanks to Stefan Schaal, who gave me a hard time last month for ROS
>> having mediocre OS X support, especially given that I carry a MBPro, I
>> can report on some progress.
>>
>> Wim and I started bringing up devel_electric builds of stacks on OS X.
>>  The dashboard is here:
>>  http://build.willowgarage.com/view/os-x/
>> The stacks that we're currently building (or trying to build) are
>> listed below.  More stacks are being added all the time, so check the
>> dashboard above to see current status.
>>
>> These builds are testing the Electric development branch of each stack
>> (often, but not always, trunk/default) against the Electric released
>> versions of the stacks it depends on.  The machine the builds are
>> running on is 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) and was bootstrapped according to
>> the standard install instructions
>> (http://www.ros.org/wiki/electric/Installation/OSX).
>>
>> I did *not* follow wjwwood's suggestion to configure MacPorts as
>> strictly 32-bit (https://github.com/wjwwood/ros-osx/wiki).  As a
>> result, I expect that we'll have trouble with anything using wx (e.g.,
>> rviz).  In the future, we'll probably bring up a OS X 10.7 (Lion)
>> machine, which reportedly will resolve these issues.  In the meantime,
>> we can make progress on building all the non-wx stuff.
>>
>> The goal of these builds is to keep track of what works, and to
>> prevent regressions.  A stack "works" when you can successfully
>> `rosmake --rosdep-install -t <stack>`, which means that all system
>> dependencies are correctly resolved, and everything builds and tests.
>>
>> How you can help:
>> * If you're working on OS X, suggest stacks that you know to build
>> that should be added to the list.
>> * A lot of the work is in resolving system dependencies, in particular
>> for things aren't available from MacPorts.  In those cases, we need
>> "source rosdep" definitions.  Have a look at
>> https://kforge.ros.org/rosrelease/viewvc/sourcedeps/ for examples.
>> * If you get email from Hudson about an OS X failure, please have a
>> look at it.  If you can't figure out what went wrong, forward it to me
>> and we can dig into it together.
>>
>>        brian.
>>
>> assimp
>> bond_core
>> bullet
>> common_msgs
>> common_rosdeps
>> diagnostics
>> driver_common
>> eigen
>> executive_smach
>> filters
>> geometry
>> image_common
>> nodelet_core
>> orocos_kinematics_dynamics
>> physics_ode
>> pluginlib
>> robot_model_tutorials
>> ros_comm
>> ros
>> ros_tutorials
>> rx
>> xacro
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