ecl in Noetic

[fmrico]

Dear @stonier

There will be a release for Noetic? I am using kobuki, and it depends on ecl :)

Thanks!!

[stonier]

On their way

[m2kulkarni]

How can i build such that it is comaptible with noetic?

[stonier]

I haven't tried it myself but you should be able to just drop ecl_tools, ecl_lite, sophus and ecl_core into your workspace like any other ros repository.

[stonier]

Tracking RosDistro PR's

• ecl_tools
• ecl_lite
• sophus
• ecl_core ... coming

[m2kulkarni]

Hey, so i tried doing that. I cloned this repository into my workspace and then did catkin_make but there is a error Error: Packages with unknown build types exist Can not build workspace with packages of unknown build_type.

[stonier]

I suspect you've got the wrong branches. The default branch for ecl repositories now targets ROS2.

This ecl.repos should work for noetic, or at least give you the hint. I don't have noetic installed yet, so let me know how it goes.

[m2kulkarni]

Hey, so basically I am trying to run Champ . In that it automatically clones yocs_velocity_simulator. I saw your comment on yocs too.

Also as you suggested, i tried cloning the melodic release version but the errors persisted

[stonier]

That's a fairly generic message that usually indicates it's not around or has been skipped because catkin doesn't know what to do with it. You'll have to dig around earlier in the build output to grokk that. Unfortunately, I don't have a 20.04 installation yet, so can't try to reproduce here.

If there is something peculiar to 20.04, I'll get some signal from the build farm once those PR's get into rosdistro.

[stonier]

Looks like I need a noetic install after all - there are some critical warnings turning into errors being caught on 20.04 that weren't being caught on 18.04 :)

[m2kulkarni]

Hey, sorry for not replying. It actually did build successfully. I guess sopheus wasnt working with other packages so i built it in another workspace and ecl_toos, ecl_core and ecl_lite in another. Thankully now there are no errors when i try to catkin_make champ. BUT the models are still not working, but i guess that has nothing to do with ecl.(i have posted that as another issue

Thanks for the replies, it helped me figure out things. You may go ahead and close the issue. Thanks again

[stonier]

Ah, the release version in CI is setting stricter build flags I expect. And yes, I forgot with catkin you need sophus (pure cmake project) in an underlying workspace. Good to hear it works.

Keeping this open - still tracking the noetic release.

[stonier]

Debs are in.