This is a layer to provide ROS Hydromedusa in an OpenEmbedded Linux system.
It provides a stable cross-compilation build system for many common ROS packages.
Currently, this layer is still under continuous development.
## IMPORTANT RESOURCES ##
* Source Code Repository: https://github.com/bmwcarit/meta-ros.git
* Issue Tracker: https://github.com/bmwcarit/meta-ros/issues
* Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/meta-ros
* Installation Guide: http://wiki.ros.org/hydro/Installation/OpenEmbedded
* Development Guides:
* https://github.com/bmwcarit/meta-ros/wiki/Guidelines-for-ROS-recipes
* https://github.com/bmwcarit/meta-ros/wiki/Developer-Guidelines
## MAINTAINERS ##
* Lukas Bulwahn, BMW Car IT GmbH <lukas.bulwahn@oss.bmw-carit.de>
* Stefan Herbrechtsmeier, Bielefeld University <stefan@herbrechtsmeier.net>
* Kristof Robot <krirobo@gmail.com>
## CONTRIBUTORS ##
* Lukas Bulwahn, BMW Car IT GmbH <lukas.bulwahn@oss.bmw-carit.de>
* Stefan Herbrechtsmeier, Bielefeld University <stefan@herbrechtsmeier.net>
* Tobias Weigl, BMW Car IT GmbH <tobias.weigl@bmw-carit.de>
* Kartik Mohta <kartikmohta@gmail.com>
* Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>
* Victor Mayoral Vilches <v.mayoralv@gmail.com>
* Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan <jin@dev.digitalstrom.org>
* Andreas Hildisch, BMW Car IT GmbH <andreas.hildisch@bmw-carit.de>
* William <william@friedcircuits.us>
* Kristof Robot <krirobo@gmail.com>
* Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
* Esteve Fernandez <esteve@apache.org>
* Jonas Sticha <jonas.sticha@bmw-carit.de>
## HOW TO CONTRIBUTE ##
We are still working on this development and are interested in other use cases.
If you are interested in this project, please contact us via email.
The more people are interested, the more we will be pushing this project.
If you want to contribute, please contact us and we can discuss open issues
and how to join forces.
## DEPENDENCIES ##
This layer depends on:
URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
branch: master
revision: HEAD
URI: git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded
layers: meta-oe
branch: master
revision: HEAD
bitbake > 1.20
## DEPENDENCIES ON RECENT COMMITS ##
Here, we list which parts of this layer depend on recent commits in the
bitbake, openembedded-core and meta-openembedded repositories. Using
`git blame` on the lines below, you can find the commits in meta-ros that
rely on the remote commits. In case of porting to other versions, you must
possibly revert some of those commits.
cv-bridge and dependent recipes, e.g., the image-transport recipes, depend on
7568bfdd114597956a1da68746f207ec7f93a48d@openembedded-core.
Some recipes that need the Eigen library, e.g., the pcl-ros recipe, depend on
424e3c1b930c0103c2cedfd4df1671e84a5256d5@meta-openembedded.
Using wildcards in bbappend versions part in name depends on
31bc9af9cd56e7b318924869970e850993fafc5f@bitbake and
991cbeedbde8bd25ce08c669b1bfac8b99e33149@bitbake.
octomap-ros and collada-urdf depend on
43073569cb67d98c11aa71211d77b566b64f9145@openembedded-core and
783fb88f476c94d5d4f4b954f7053464d9a6dff5@openembedded-core.
## INSTALLATION ##
The repository contains a layer for ROS that builds on top of the
OpenEmbedded Core layer and the meta-oe layer.
We try our best to keep up with the development of the current HEAD
of the layers mentioned above. If you notice any problems with the
current HEAD, please report this in our issue tracker.
You can use this layer with earlier versions of the layers mentioned above
and their release branches, dora and daisy, with a few minor adjustments.
The section "dependencies on recent commits" in this file provides a few
pointers to adjust this layer for other versions.
## USAGE ##
Currently, you can cross-compile the ROS packages with the commands:
source oe-init-build-env
bitbake <package-name>
Look at the meta-ros test reports for the description of the current state.
The recipe core-image-ros-roscore provides a minimal Linux system that runs
roscore.
You can compile the minimal Linux system with
bitbake core-image-ros-roscore
Then for example, you start this system in the qemu virtual machine with
runqemu <MACHINE> core-image-ros-roscore
On the Linux system, ensure that the own host's name in resolved by adding
127.0.0.1 <HOSTNAME>.localdomain <HOSTNAME>
to the /etc/hosts file, and set up the environment with
export ROS_ROOT=/usr
export ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311
export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr
touch /usr/.catkin
Finally, you can start roscore with
roscore
## LICENSE ##
All metadata is MIT licensed unless otherwise stated. Source code included
in tree for individual recipes is under the LICENSE stated in each recipe
(.bb file) unless otherwise stated.
The descriptions in the recipes of ROS packages have been extracted from
the ROS wiki (http://www.ros.org/wiki/) and are licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
unless otherwise noted.
This README document is Copyright (C) 2012 BMW Car IT GmbH.
## REDISTRIBUTIONS ##
The log4cxx recipe originated from the recipe in the OpenEmbedded (Classic) Development
(cf. http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded/tree/recipes/log4cxx)
licensed with the MIT License.
The yaml-cpp recipe originated from the recipe in Kartik Mohta's OpenEmbedded layer
(cf. https://github.com/kartikmohta/meta-km/blob/master/recipes-devtools/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp_0.3.0.bb)
licensed with the MIT License.
The libpoco recipe originated from the recipe in digitalSTROM's OpenEmbedded layer
(cf. https://gitorious.digitalstrom.org/dss-oe/dss-oe/blobs/master/dS/meta-dss11-production/recipes-support/poco/poco_1.3.6p2.bb)
licensed with the MIT License.
The core-image-ros-* recipes originated from the core-image-minimal recipe in OpenEmbedded Core
(cf. http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb)
licensed with the MIT License.
The original or modified files are redistributed here under the same MIT License.