gavanderhoorn
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3 years ago I originally contributed the manifest in #10.
if I I add ruckig to my package.xml and find it as a catkin package, ruckig fails to get built as a dependency.
do you mean you try to add it to find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS ..)?
If so: there is a difference between a plain-CMake package which can be used as a system dependency and has a package.xml to help tools like rosdep discover it, and a Catkin package.
Only Catkin packages can be added as a COMPONENT in a find_package(catkin ..) call.
But it's not needed for Ruckig, as it doesn't use any ROS infrastructure.
You should be able to just:
find_package(ruckig REQUIRED)
...
target_link_libraries(<your_target> PUBLIC ... PRIVATE ruckig::ruckig)and it should work.
I also build ruckig manually with ROS colcon which works, but it doesn't seem to install it in the files in a place that other ROS packages can find.
This suggests you are actually using ROS 2, which changes things somewhat.
IIRC, for ROS 2 tools to be able to find plain-CMake packages, you'd have to install a .dsv marker file in the appropriate location (so it gets registered in the Ament Index). I'm not exactly sure which parts are required, but see these lines.
But I would probably recommend to use Ruckig as a system dependency instead. The Ament Index registration would only be needed in specific circumstances, and AFAICT, you just need to be able to build Ruckig in a Colcon workspace -- that's what the package.xml already enables. CMake should take care of the rest.
ags-dy
I see you have a ROS package.xml, but if I I add ruckig to my package.xml and find it as a catkin package, ruckig fails to get built as a dependency.
I also build ruckig manually with ROS colcon which works, but it doesn't seem to install it in the files in a place that other ROS packages can find.
Is it possible to support it as a ROS package?
Thanks