Introduction:

Welcome to the Robotics @ Maryland source control system. It a multilanguage, multiplaform code base for control robotics system. It has a build system designed to place minimum work load on the developer. This is important because the code base uses several open source libraries and has many inter-connected subcomponents.

Getting Started:

In order to get started you need to run the 'bootstrap.py' script which gets you from a blank environment to one capable of compiling our code and running its programs (*). It will installs all dependencies to the directory you specify (/opt/ram/local is default) it also generates a 'setenv' file which is used to make sure you pull in the proper libraries and executables.

Please see 'python bootstrap.py --help' for more information on the exact options the program takes.

(*) Current it will not downloaded the extra software from the https://ram.umd.edu/software// dirctory, this needs to be done manually.

Compiling the Code:

After having run the bootstrap script, and having it complete with no errors you need to source the generated 'setenv' script, you do this by running "srouce scripts/setenv". This needs to be done for every new terminal you open Now you can build the code by running 'scons' in the root directory.
This will build everything. SCons also contains autoconf like functionality and by default our build system will ensure all dependencies are properly installed before attempting to compile anything.

Auther: Joseph Lisee