rayckey / v_repextrosinterface

Package for V-REP & ROS Interface

ROS Interface plugin for V-REP

Compiling

1. Download

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/Rayckey/v_repExtRosInterface.git

2. Edit meta/messages.txt and meta/services.txt if you need to include more ROS messages/services. You need to specify the full message/service type, i.e. geometry_msgs/Twist rather than Twist.
3. Edit set(ENV{VREP_ROOT} ~/V-REP_PRO_EDU_V3_5_0_Linux) in CMakeLists.txt to the path of V-REP installation, and comment link_directories("/opt/ros/lunar/lib") if using older versions
4. Clone XR1_vrep_ros, return to work space and build using catkin build (catkin make may cause issues)

$ catkin build

5. IMPORTANT! After compiling, copy libv_repExtRosInterface.so from WORKSPACE/devel/lib/ to V-REP root folder, and do so whenever the meta/messages.txt or meta/services.txt files have been modified

Dependencies

1. For catkin build to work, some packages may need to be installed via apt-get, which include:

Essentials

$ sudo apt-get install python-catkin-tools python-rosdep python-rosinstall-generator python-wstool python-rosinstall build-essential xsltproc

cakin_tools

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu `lsb_release -sc` main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
$ wget http://packages.ros.org/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python-catkin-tools

v_repExtRosInterface