Installation instructions

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Follow the official installation instructions for the platform. If instructions have not been published for the platform, use the instructions for Rolling Ridley.

For source build platforms, this includes the installation of dependencies and building the packages.

Setup

• DDS vendor: FastDDS
• BuildType: Binary
• Chip: Amd64
• Os: Windows

Links

• Installation instructions

Checks

• Install works

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You can find the code used to generate this test case here

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Using two Windows 10 virtualbox VM from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

Doing two tests:

• Binary install https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Installation/Windows-Install-Binary.html
• Source install https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Installation/Windows-Development-Setup.html

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I noticed the Python version is out of date on Windows.

ros-infrastructure/rep#349
ros-infrastructure/ros2-cookbooks#44
ros2/ros2_documentation#2406
ros2/ci#660

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I noticed the OpenSSL version is listed as 1.1.1L, but only 1.1.1n is listed on the page

Download the Win64 OpenSSL v1.1.1L OpenSSL installer from this page. Scroll to the bottom of the page and download Win64 OpenSSL v1.1.1L. Don’t download the Win32 or Light versions.

ros2/ros2_documentation#2407

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Investigating why this doesn't work after following the binary instructions:

C:\Windows\system32>ros2 run demo_nodes_cpp talker
failed to create process.

EDIT this was due to installing the wrong python version (I installed 3.10 but the binary archive is built with 3.8)

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I found I needed to install pip and setuptools first before the python dependencies would install

ros2/ros2_documentation#2425

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No need to mention the ROS 1 bridge on windows https://github.com/ros2/ros2_documentation/pull/2469/files

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Looks like the build type in the description is Binary, and that seems to work now. I'll call this done.