[Feature] LaneLet2 python on Windows

[Jazzinghen]

I would like to be able to handle LaneLet2 files in a project on windows but at the moment there is no way to use the Python submodule on Windows (or on Linux without ROS) due to its ROS dependencies. Is there any way to use it as a separate package instead of part of the entire project?

[poggenhans]

We are currently working on conan support (see the conan_support branch). That would rid us of the ROS/catkin dependency. However, currently that does not work with the python bindings. It is also possible to build Lanelet2 purely without a ROS installation, as long as catkin is available. But that could be built and installed from source.

Regarding Windows: We are not developing for Windows, since we would be unable to test it in a CI environment and we are not using it ourselves. Even if we fix the catkin requirement, there might be issues in CMake due to incompatible flags and within Lanelet2 due to wrong filesystem paths.

These should be easy to fix, but we cannot guarantee that we wont introduce new issues in the future, since we don't test for them.

[FerGarrido]

Hello.

First of all, thank you for your work. I have tried to build the lib from windows by following the instructions in the documentation. Howerver, it does not work. I have the following error when executing the following code: conan create . lanelet2/stable --build=missing

X:\Lanelet2>conan install lanelet2/1.1.1@lanelet2/stable --build=missing
Configuration:
[settings]
arch=x86_64
arch_build=x86_64
build_type=Release
compiler=Visual Studio
compiler.runtime=MD
compiler.version=14
os=Windows
os_build=Windows
[options]
[build_requires]
[env]

lanelet2/1.1.1@lanelet2/stable: Not found in local cache, looking in remotes...
lanelet2/1.1.1@lanelet2/stable: Trying with 'conancenter'...
lanelet2/1.1.1@lanelet2/stable: Trying with 'conan-center'...
lanelet2/1.1.1@lanelet2/stable: Trying with 'bincrafters'...
ERROR: Permission denied for user: 'fgarrid2'. [Remote: bincrafters]

Do you know how to fix this issue?

For information, my conan user are the following (I modified the bincrafters, which was set to None):

X:\Lanelet2>conan user
Current user of remote 'conancenter' set to: 'fgarrid2'
Current user of remote 'conan-center' set to: 'None' (anonymous)
Current user of remote 'bincrafters' set to: 'fgarrid2'

Thanks in advance

[poggenhans]

I'm not really sure if you problem is related to this issue, to me it looks rather like a conan specific problem.

The command line output (conan install) is not consistent with your command (conan create), so probably it is related to this. If you are unsure, have look at how we do it in our (linux-based) CI: https://github.com/fzi-forschungszentrum-informatik/Lanelet2/blob/1e659dab3cade16ab8aebc62af1f44126ed525a7/.gitlab-ci.yml#L78-L80

If your problem persists, please open a new issue with more details to keep things separate.

Just to warn you: Even if this problem is solved, there is little hope this project will work on Windows out of the box. We are not supporting it and as far as I know it has never been tested on this platform, so expect to run into all the usual Windows-specific problems.

[FerGarrido]

I'm not really sure if you problem is related to this issue, to me it looks rather like a conan specific problem.

The command line output (conan install) is not consistent with your command (conan create), so probably it is related to this. If you are unsure, have look at how we do it in our (linux-based) CI: https://github.com/fzi-forschungszentrum-informatik/Lanelet2/blob/1e659dab3cade16ab8aebc62af1f44126ed525a7/.gitlab-ci.yml#L78-L80

If your problem persists, please open a new issue with more details to keep things separate.

Just to warn you: Even if this problem is solved, there is little hope this project will work on Windows out of the box. We are not supporting it and as far as I know it has never been tested on this platform, so expect to run into all the usual Windows-specific problems.

Hello @poggenhans and thanks for your reply. I did exactly in the same way as you quoted (as in the documentation). I will open a new issue in that case, hoping someone has already faced that in windows before.

I have also tried to create a Visual Studio project containing the code, but it fails to build both with C++11, C++14 and C++17.

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