Use a catkin wrapper instead of PkgConfig

[nicolov]

Hi, thank you very much for open-sourcing the code, there's a lot to learn from.

In ROS, a common pattern to handle external pure-cmake projects is to create a catkin wrapper that compiles the shared libraries and exports the includes. By doing this, any other ROS package can just REQUIRED COMPONENTS the wrapper and the library gets linked in automatically.

IMHO, this is neater than having people install chilitags system-wide using CMake, as it plays nicer with the rest of the ROS ecosystem (.deb packaging, cleaning, multiple workspaces,..)

I've created such a wrapper here and pushed the (little) changes needed to use it in my fork.

Is this something you would be interested in merging?

[severin-lemaignan]

Is this something you would be interested in merging?

Definitely! Thanks a lot!

I'm away until September, so if I forget to merge it at that point, please ping the thread!

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[skohlbr]

Ping :) Just ran also into difficulties building, looks like the proposed package could make that more convenient.

[nicolov]

Install these first:

• catkin_simple
• the catkin wrapper I made for chilitags https://github.com/nicolov/chilitags_catkin

Then, you can use my fork of this package

Let me know how that goes, I've only tested on ROS Kinetic.

[severin-lemaignan]

@nicolov Alright, I had a look + I've forked chilitags_catkin. I'm happy to merge a pull request to support the wrapper, but I'm less keen on forcing people to use it (as it means one more bit of package to install).

Would it be possible to bundle chilitags_catkin directly with ros_markers so that it is almost transparent for the users?

[nicolov]

Thanks again, I've used the detector for some drone precision landing application, and it worked great!

We can have two folders/catkin packages in this repo, one with the wrapper, and one with the current code. Ros_markers would depend on the wrapper, so they would both get built.

If you're ok with that, I can prepare a PR.

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@nicolov https://github.com/nicolov Alright, I had a look + I've forked chilitags_catkin https://github.com/chili-epfl/chilitags_catkin. I'm happy to merge a pull request to support the wrapper, but I'm less keen on forcing people to use it (as it means one more bit of package to install).

Would it be possible to bundle chilitags_catkin directly with ros_markers so that it is almost transparent for the users?

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[severin-lemaignan]

Sounds good! Looking forward the PR.