blueshift-ros

Setup Instructions

Note: these instructions are meant for Ubuntu. If you are using a different distribution, ie windows or macOS, it will be more complicated.

Install ROS Galactic following these instructions:

• https://docs.ros.org/en/galactic/Installation/Ubuntu-Install-Debians.html
• https://docs.ros.org/en/galactic/Tutorials/Configuring-ROS2-Environment.html
• https://docs.ros.org/en/galactic/Tutorials/Colcon-Tutorial.html
  • After creating a workspace, skip down to Setup colcon_cd

Clone this repository into the src folder of your workspace

git clone https://github.com/redshiftrobotics/blueshift-ros.git

Install rosdep

sudo apt install -y python3-rosdep
sudo rosdep init
rosdep update --include-eol-distros

Install Dependencies

Note: All commands after this point must be run in the root folder your colcon workspace

rosdep install -i --from-path src --rosdistro galactic -y

Build project

To build the whole project run colcon build. Note that you will need to follow the installation instructions in blueshift_web before it will build.

• if you get the error AssertionError: No verb extentions follow these instructions
• To build specific packages run colcon build --packages-select YOUR_PKG_NAME
• --event-handlers console_direct+ can be added to the end of any colcon command to enable verbose output