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Catkin: How to build ViSP lastest release as a catkin package

Description: This tutorial explains how to build ViSP latest release as a catkin package

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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Installing ViSP from source

Introduction

ViSP library is packaged with bloom as a catkin package for ROS groovy, hydro and indigo distro. It can be simply installed using: 

sudo apt-get install ros-<distro>-visp

where "<distro>" is either groovy, hydro or indigo.

For some reasons, you may be interested in turning on or off some 3rd-party libraries that are used by ViSP. To this end, you need to rebuild ViSP release from source. Next section explains how to do it.

Installing ViSP from source

ViSP source code as a catkin package is available from GitHub repo https://github.com/lagadic/visp-release

Depending on ROS distro, you need to get the source of the right release branch 

cd /tmp
git clone -b release/<distro>/visp https://github.com/lagadic/visp-release.git

Now to build and install ViSP latest release just run: 

cd /tmp/visp-release
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/ros/<distro> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib .
make -j8
sudo make install

Wiki: visp/Tutorials/CatkinBuildViSPFromSourceRelease (last edited 2014-04-17 09:18:18 by FabienSpindler)

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