Build ROS from source

See install guide and scripts in _BuildGuide for details.

Currently, we just offer support for ROS noetic.

However it may offer some help for other versions as well.

How to use this Repo

• Set temporary environment variables

  Here is an example:

  ROS_BUILD_PATH=~/ros
  ROS_INSTALL_PATH=~/ros/noetic

  • Point $ROS_BUILD_PATH to the compilation path of ROS.

    In the path $ROS_BUILD_PATH/build/noetic there are some .rosinstall files and a src folder that stores the ROS Noetic source code.

  • Point $ROS_INSTALL_PATH to the install path of ROS.

    The compiled and installed ROS Noetic is located in the path $ROS_INSTALL_PATH

• Create compilation path

  sudo mkdir $ROS_BUILD_PATH
  sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $ROS_BUILD_PATH

  Fetch this repo to $ROS_BUILD_PATH, rename it to build and switch into $ROS_BUILD_PATH/build/noetic

  cd $ROS_BUILD_PATH && git clone https://github.com/hmxf/ROSource build
  cd $ROS_BUILD_PATH/build/noetic

• For subsequent operations, please refer to the documentation under the _BuildGuide path.

  For example, since you are in $ROS_BUILD_PATH/build/noetic now and is ready to do something big, you can use scripts like this:

  ../_BuildGuide/1.prepare_sysenv.sh
  ../_BuildGuide/2.prepare_rosenv.sh
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