NOTE: the directory containing all files (i.e. package.xml etc) must be called sim_ros_interface, otherwise build will fail.
$ git clone https://github.com/CoppeliaRobotics/simROS.git sim_ros_interface
$ cd sim_ros_interface
$ git checkout coppeliasim-v4.5.0-rev0
NOTE: replace coppeliasim-v4.5.0-rev0
with the actual CoppeliaSim version you have.
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.$ catkin build
For ROS melodic / Ubuntu 18, use the 'melodic' branch