ros-windows/win_ros

Windows support for Ros (Robot Operating System)

win_ros's Issues

ros::init crash

i do tutorial from http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/WritingPublisherSubscriber%28c%2B%2B%29#roscpp_tutorials.2BAC8-Tutorials.2BAC8-WritingPublisherSubscriber.The_Code

but program crashes at ros::init with Unhandled exception "0x77ba9328 (roscpp.dll)" in "ROS_test.exe": 0xC0000005: Access violation reading "0x00000000".

Thanks for some help!

Conflicting % symbol in string with error_rule function of rules.py

% symbol in string causes error in error_rule function of rules.py.

Fork and pull request actionlib

Work for groovy.

Slow on Windows

The following processes are much much slower than expected.

• catkin
• roslaunch
• non-persistent ros service calls

Post install script for pdb's

I don't believe cmake has a standard way of getting pdb's across in the install step.

Can it do a post-install script? We probably just need something to parse the required devel directories and copy across all pdb relevant files to the install directory.

winros_init_workspace fails

Hello,

when I try to initialize the Workspace under "C:\ws" the process aborts after a while with following error:

rosinstall.common.MultiProjectExeption: Error processing 'gtest' : [gtest] Checkout of http://googletest.googlecode.com/svn/tags/release-1.6.0 version none into C:\ws\src\gtest failed.

I checked the url and it says 404: not found.
Because the process fails, no CMakeLists.txt is build and the workspace is not valid. So I cannot run winros_make nor can I install other packages in the workspace.

Any ideas how to solve this issue?

Init workspace should accept url's

The following should be acceptable.

winros_init_workspace ecl https://raw.github.com/stonier/ecl_core/groovy-devel/ecl.rosinstall

Windows Groovy - Tracking Changes

Open issues are handled by forking the repos into this organisation and maintaining patches as commits in those repos. We use these repos in the rosinstallers instead of the originals until all patches have been catered for upstream. So remember to close our forks in this repo if any of the following stacks' pull requests are finalised. You'll probably also need to redirect the msvc_xxx rosinstallers.

Patches

• Catkin
  • help it find installed underlays [pull/397][pull/406]
• Ros_Comm
  • roslaunch batch scripts (just rosversion.bat now - need to fix this better) ros-windows/ros_comm@e447225
  • experimental workaround/blind spot for roslaunch handling children ros-windows/ros_comm@60ee92a
• Actionlib
  • bin destination for dll's ros-windows/actionlib@c3fc203, [pull/3]

Groovy Fixes

• Rospkg
  • Windows detection [pull/34]
• Rosinstall
  • Handle korean locales [pull/77][pull/78]
• Catkin_Pkg
  • pass Nice Windows Paths to Cmake[pull/35]
• Catkin
  • remove double quoting in batch file strings [pull/388]
  • remove arcanery for windows add_library [pull/390]
  • syntax bugfixes for batch distutils install script [pull/393]
  • remove redundant --install-scripts in python_distutils_install.bat.in [pull/394]
  • help windows find dlls [pull/391]
  • allow use of -C in catkin_make [#376]
  • remove use of workspace configuration [pull/377]
  • nosetest build folder generation not relative [pull/382]
  • generating cmake config modules properly for import deps [pull/378]
  • bugfix nmake targets appearing as inference rules [pull/383]
• Rospack
  • msvc port patching [pull/10]
• Ros
  • bugfix parent package path syntax in 10.ros.bat [pull/9]
  • bin destination for dll's [pull/8]
  • path manipulation for windows' 10.ros.bat etc/profile script [pull/6]
  • Ensure variables survive local scope in 10.ros.bat [pull/7]
• Roscpp Core
  • bin destination for dll's [pull/10]
• Ros_Comm
  • rosbag port [pull/189]
  • bin destination for dll's [pull/197]
  • remove redundant fctl code [pull/195]
  • bugfix initialisation of ROS_MASTER_URI [pull/193]
  • message filters port [pull/190]
  • roslaunch process killer [pull/191]

Genmsg nosetests broken

ros/catkin#381

Semi-automatic dependency installation

Pain in the ass installing one by one by one... Possible to do this via a script?

• Install python
• Install an msi for python-build-tools
• Run a script from python build tools that downloads and installs every dependency interactively.

Spaces in Paths

This is bound to fall over in all sorts of unglorious ways as the batch string handling is very messy and I doubt what we have will work.

Be brave and test with a space riddled workspace name to start chasing those bugs into the open.

Win_ros installation 'python _partent_package_path.py' is not recognized as an internal or external command?

Hello, yesterday I followed the win_ros installation instructions here:
http://wiki.ros.org/win_ros/hydro/Msvc%20SDK

After some problems with setting PATH variables, I got the demo/test talker/listener program to run in conjunction with roscore. However, today, after attempting to follow this tutorial:

http://wiki.ros.org/win_ros/hydro/Msvc%20SDK%20Projects

to be able to actually create my own nodes and stuff, I have somehow messed something up, because running the line

call C:\opt\ros\hydro\x86\setup.bat now produces the error:

' 'is not recognized as an internal or external command ... etc. 'python _parent_package_path.py' is not recognized ... etc.

Any idea what I screwed up, or how to fix it?

Thanks

no rosconsole command line tool

No rosconsole tool is available for Windows after building the SDK according to Msvc Compiled SDK

Roslaunch not killing rosout

It's hanging around after CTRL-C on roscore with 90% cpu usage.

I seem to remember seeing this before...

ROS_MASTER_URI not set in devel environment

Doesn't get set automatically with setup.bat.

Roslaunch can't execute rosmaster

Roslaunch got a 'The system cannot find the file specified' error while att
empting to run:

rosmaster --core -p 11311 __log:=C:\Users\snorri\.ros\log\212dc1de-8d16-11e2-8df
0-080027575465\master.log

Is this a problem of the .bath files?

Port rospack

Fork rospack and drop our old patches in and send a pull request.

Use pip for python dependencies

This might be easier than my manual msi builds/downloads. From mirza:

• Install pip (easy_install.exe pip)
• pip.exe install empy nose catkin_pkg

Only down side that I can think of is that I can't provide my own patched versions (till those patches get upstream).

Roslaunch can't terminate grandchildren

Linux uses group id's for a process and all it's children. So if roslaunch starts a process, it simply sends a kill to this group id.

The same python function isn't available on windows, so we need a different method. Currently it doesn't do anything except kill the child, so any processes started by that child will just hang as zombies.

We'll tackle it if we have a use case that suddenly requires it. If someone else wants to hit this bug, let me know and I can point them at the code.

Rostime algorithm errors

ros/ros_comm#160

Update ros tutorials for groovy

I can't remember if I'd patched these, or I was using the old win_ros tutorials.

Probably win_ros to avoid turtlesim.

fcntl porting for windows

The former is a linux only piece of code. Can't even import fctnl. I don't know exactly what is the equivalent code yet. Problem is in here:

https://github.com/ros/ros/blob/groovy-devel/core/roslib/src/roslib/network.py

Why did we not have this problem in fuerte though? There is branching there:

if _use_netifaces:
  # maybe this one got hit.
elif _is_unix_like_platform():
  # fcntl code
else():
  # single interface fallback

• Q) Why is windows falling into _is_unix_like_platform()?
• Q) Maybe it fell into the first option in fuerte?

Where is rostime.dll?

This doesn't seem to have been built anywhere, only the .lib...was it made?

Add os_detect for windows in rospkg

Currently missing in os_detect.py. We just need to add a windows class.

Probably platform.system() == 'Windows' is a sufficient check for now, but we should be careful - python platform detection is said to have some dark corners (can be unreliable).

• Create a fix locally
• Make a fork, edit and pull request to rospkg.

Reference about platform.system() on stack overflow

Rostest causing wierd build error.

Cmake is fine, however:

Executing nmake in the root build directory

makefile(1035) : fatal error U1086: inference rule cannot have dependents
Stop.

No ROS_PACKAGE_PATH, ROS_ETC_DIR in devel space

These variables aren't getting set properly....probably 10.ros.bat.

Boost chrono

5a0dd78

boost 1.50 (mingw) now needs chrono below thread...make sure to add them

• not upstreaming this one as its a way off yet and needs a better fix than dropping the required while both boosts are supported

Declspecs for stl member variables

These have me in a spin:

 warning C4251: 'ecl::StandardException::message' : class 'std::basic_string<_Elem,_Traits,_Ax>' needs to have dll-interface to be used by clients of class 'ecl::StandardException'

This is a common warning when you have something as simple as a std::string inside an exported class. Not sure of the right way of dealing with these.

Disconnection callback for publisher does not work

When subscriber is launched, connection callback function for publisher is called well, but disconnection callback is not called when it is closed.

Config generator for groovy broken

Someone had troubles with this - got mixed up with hydro?

http://wiki.ros.org/win_ros/groovy/Msvc%20Overlays?action=diff&rev1=7&rev2=8

Make sure the wiki page is updated afterwards as well.

Fork and pull request ros_comm

Drop our patches on a forked ros_comm.

rosversion failing in the install space

C:\opt\ros\groovy\x86\share\roslaunch>roscore
WARNING: unable to configure logging. No log files will be generated
Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile.
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Cannot locate [roslaunch]←[31mInvalid <param> tag: Cannot load command parameter [rosversion]: command [rosversion roslaunch] returned with code [1].

Param xml is <param command="rosversion roslaunch" name="rosversion"/>←[0m

winros_init_workspace still fails

Hello @stonier

after you updated msvc_hydro.rosinstall (gtest moved to github) it still doesn't work.
I noticed that, there's a comma missing at the end of the line you added.

Doubled up --install-scripts in python_distutils_install.bat.in

The batch script already has an --install-scripts option, but SETUPTOOLS_ARG_EXTRA also adds the same option. However, it doesn't enclose the path in double quotes.

• Don't add a redundant argument
  • Removing should solve the double quotes problem.

Tixml woes

How do we do this in windoze?

Tixml cmake shared build only builds dll, no .lib, so it's not exporting functions and classes properly (FAIL).

As a static build, rospack does not want to link to it (not sure why yet).

There's a ms visual studio soln file, should look into that.

Use exes, not batch scripts for global bin tools

Does away with the annoying terminate (Y/N).

provide setup.bash for win32 bash shell, like git-bash or cygwin

Debug mode crashes

Crashing in debug mode. Reported by flavio:

For me i found that only the release mode works when Msvc Gui. In the Debug mode i get
Unhandled exception at 0x760fc41f (KernelBase.dll) in ros_test.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: std::bad_alloc at memory location 0x003dec40..
i am pretty sure that i set all the settings according to the tutorial. However release mode just works fine. can you confirm this?

Python module install errors

Happens as soon as it hits a python package to install.

'\"C:/Python27/python.exe\"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
CMake Error at catkin/catkin_generated/safe_execute_install.cmake:4 (message):

  execute_process(C:/work/ws/build/catkin/catkin_generated/python_distutils_install.bat)
  returned error code
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  catkin/cmake_install.cmake:57 (INCLUDE)
  cmake_install.cmake:93 (INCLUDE)


NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'echo' : return code '0x1'
Stop.

Update visual express tutorials

Haven't tested these at all.

Also update the wiki page which is currently empty.

You might like to copy across information from the old fuerte wiki page and update.

Gtest found by catkin, but not compiled

Global bin tools not installed

roscore & co. are all missing from the install step.

Validate groovy runtime

roscore etc.

Environment script cannot do catkin python imports

Having problems calling generate_messages in cmake which sends a call out to one of the windows environment batch scripts and executes a python process. End result:

ImportError: No module named genmsg