fatal error: ftdi.h: No such file or directory about kobuki_core

[hossamfadeel]

sudo apt-get install libftdi*
Solved my problem

[IkerZamora]

Which OS?

Ubuntu 14.04

Anyway, I fixed the issue by installing libftdi and libftdi-dev

sudo apt-get install libftdi libftdi-dev

[stonier]

Should be in /usr/include/ftdi.h. Do you have the rosdep installed? Which OS?

[smehrnia]

I am trying to create a bitbake recipe (Yocto) for Kobuki base and hopefully push it to the meta-ros git for everyone to use, but I am having the same issue when trying to cross compile the package using bitbake. The header files exist in the usr/include/libftdi1/ (in the build dir) I manually correct it, then I get a few of compiling errors & complains after the 30% mark of compiling.
so far this "kobuki_ftdi" is the only problematic package in the group and is blocking the job :)

[hugomatic]

I'm having a similar problem, trying to build from source on Fedora 22 (arm)

Linux localhost 3.10.93 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 17 13:30:25 KST 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

I have some libftdi-devel package installed:

 dnf list | grep ftdi
libftdi.armv7hl                            1.2-1.fc22                    @System
libftdi-c++.armv7hl                        1.2-1.fc22                    @fedora
libftdi-c++-devel.armv7hl                  1.2-1.fc22                    @fedora
libftdi-devel.armv7hl                      1.2-1.fc22                    @fedora
libftdi-python.armv7hl                     1.2-1.fc22                    @fedora
lirc-drv-ftdi.armv7hl                      0.9.2a-3.fc22                 updates

The package has an ftdi.h file, but its in a separate folder. When I create a link in /usr/include, it looks like the function signatures are not the right ones.

ll /usr/include/libftdi1
total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20667 Jun 23 16:49 ftdi.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6362 Jun 23 16:49 ftdi.hpp

[sole6]

@smehrnia did you manage to get a solution for it? i have the same issues you had

[sjnewbury]

I realise this is an old closed bug, but just for completion since I hit this in Gentoo with libftdi:

It's a bug in the libftdi-1.5 CMakeLists.txt where there are separate includedirs for C and C++ headers. The pkg-config/CMake config files etc do not take it into account and end up just using the libftdipp header directory.

This has been fixed upstream only fairly recently!
http://developer.intra2net.com/git/?p=libftdi;a=patch;h=cdb28383402d248dbc6062f4391b038375c52385