CMake error: could not find ros_industrial_cmake_boilerplate-config.cmake

[rr-tom-noble]

Hello,

When trying to build noether, I'm getting the following error message with the noether_filtering package. I've installed vtk7 and libpcl-dev through apt-get before running the build.

By not providing "Findros_industrial_cmake_boilerplate.cmake" in
  CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has asked CMake to find a package
  configuration file provided by "ros_industrial_cmake_boilerplate", but
  CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by
  "ros_industrial_cmake_boilerplate" with any of the following names:

    ros_industrial_cmake_boilerplateConfig.cmake
    ros_industrial_cmake_boilerplate-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "ros_industrial_cmake_boilerplate" to
  CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "ros_industrial_cmake_boilerplate_DIR" to a
  directory containing one of the above files.  If
  "ros_industrial_cmake_boilerplate" provides a separate development package
  or SDK, be sure it has been installed.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

[rr-tom-noble]

Ah, so the issue was being caused by the vcs command in my build script not pulling the dependencies in. I'm now getting the same error with pcl_msgs when building noether_msgs though

CMake Error at /opt/ros/noetic/share/catkin/cmake/catkinConfig.cmake:83 (find_package):
  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "pcl_msgs" with any
  of the following names:

    pcl_msgsConfig.cmake
    pcl_msgs-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "pcl_msgs" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "pcl_msgs_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
  "pcl_msgs" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
  been installed.

[rr-tom-noble]

I've checked against a workspace where noether is compiling correctly (one where I build PCL from source). The difference seems to be that there's no pcl_msgs package at /opt/ros/noetic/share when installing from libpcl-dev. I'm wondering if there are additional steps that need to be taken to make the library available?

[rr-tom-noble]

Just checked the Dockerfile for noether, and I don't see any extra steps I'm missing :confused:

RUN if [ "$ROSDISTRO" != "kinetic" ] && [ "$ROSDISTRO" != "melodic" ] ; then \
    apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    libpcl-dev \
    sudo && \
    apt-get clean && \
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* ; fi

[rr-tom-noble]

I believe a workaround may be manually installing the ros-noetic-pcl-msgs package through apt-get

[marip8]

I believe a workaround may be manually installing the ros-noetic-pcl-msgs package through apt-get

Correct. This is actually the nominal method of installing that package, not necessarily a work-around. The ros_industrial_cmake_boilerplate package is also distributed on the ROS build farm and can be installed via apt:

sudo apt install ros-noetic-ros-industrial-cmake-boilerplate

Just FYI in case you weren't aware, many ROS-based repositories (including this one) track their build-from-source dependences in a .rosinstall file in the repository. You can use tools like vcstool and wstool to automatically clone dependency repositories into your workspace so the project will build correctly.

Similarly, each ROS package contains a package.xml file that specifies its dependencies. You can use the rosdep tool to install all depedency packages that are distributed on the ROS build farm (i.e. binaries of packages that you don't need to build from source).

The build instructions in this repository cover mostly cover these steps. We probably should update with the rosdep step too though