meta-ros/README

This is a layer to provide ROS Hydromedusa in an OpenEmbedded Linux system.
Currently, this layer is still under development and only provides 
cross-compilation of the basic ros-comm packages.

MAINTAINER
  Lukas Bulwahn, BMW Car IT GmbH <lukas.bulwahn@oss.bmw-carit.de>
  Stefan Herbrechtsmeier, Bielefeld University <stefan@herbrechtsmeier.net>

CONTRIBUTORS
  Lukas Bulwahn, BMW Car IT GmbH <lukas.bulwahn@oss.bmw-carit.de>
  Stefan Herbrechtsmeier, Bielefeld University <stefan@herbrechtsmeier.net>
  Tobias Weigl, BMW Car IT GmbH <tobias.weigl@bmw-carit.de>
  Kartik Mohta <kartikmohta@gmail.com>
  Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>
  Victor Mayoral Vilches <v.mayoralv@gmail.com>
  Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan <jin@dev.digitalstrom.org>

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE

  We are still working on this development and are interested in other use cases.
  If you are interested in this project, please contact us via email.
  The more people are interested, the more we will be pushing this project.
  If you want to contribute, please contact us and we can discuss open issues
  and how to join forces.


DEPENDENCIES

  This layer depends on:

  URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
  branch: master
  revision: HEAD

  URI: git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded
  layers: meta-oe
  branch: master
  revision: HEAD


INSTALLATION

  The repository contains a layer for ROS that builds on top of the
  OpenEmbedded Core layer and the meta-oe layer.

  We believe it should work with the current HEAD of the layers mentioned above.
  As a further reference, here are the version I currently work with:
    * commit 395b90054eccddc1c9062a9a8657ed4482b7710a of https://github.com/openembedded/oe-core
    * commit 2a5dea2399e2be5e5d964eda7465dcaf4c2e152b of https://github.com/openembedded/meta-oe
    * commit 324ed96e28ec31cff8cef1824d20d40f9a5d46ad of git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake in the bitbake directory


USAGE

  Currently, you can cross-compile the ROS packages with the commands:
    source oe-init-build-env
    bitbake <package-name>

  Look at the meta-ros test reports for the description of the current state.

  The recipe core-image-ros-roscore provides a minimal Linux system that runs
  roscore.

  You can compile the minimal Linux system with
    bitbake core-image-ros-roscore

  Then for example, you start this system in the qemu virtual machine with
    runqemu <MACHINE> core-image-ros-roscore

  
  On the Linux system, ensure that the own host's name in resolved by adding
  
    127.0.0.1	<HOSTNAME>.localdomain		<HOSTNAME>

  to the /etc/hosts file, and set up the environment with

    export ROS_ROOT=/usr
    export ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311
    export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr
    touch /usr/.catkin

  Finally, you can start roscore with
    roscore

    
LICENSE

  All metadata is MIT licensed unless otherwise stated. Source code included
  in tree for individual recipes is under the LICENSE stated in each recipe
  (.bb file) unless otherwise stated.
  The descriptions in the recipes of ROS packages have been extracted from
  the ROS wiki (http://www.ros.org/wiki/) and are licensed under 
  Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
  unless otherwise noted.

  This README document is Copyright (C) 2012 BMW Car IT GmbH.


REDISTRIBUTIONS

  The log4cxx recipe originated from the recipe in the OpenEmbedded (Classic) Development
  (cf. http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded/tree/recipes/log4cxx)
  licensed with the MIT License.
  The eigen recipe originated from the recipe in Kartik Mohta's OpenEmbedded layer
  (cf. https://github.com/kartikmohta/meta-km/tree/master/recipes-extended/eigen)
  licensed with the MIT License.
  The yaml-cpp recipe originated from the recipe in Kartik Mohta's OpenEmbedded layer
  (cf. https://github.com/kartikmohta/meta-km/blob/master/recipes-devtools/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp_0.3.0.bb)
  licensed with the MIT License.
  The libpoco recipe originated from the recipe in digitalSTROM's OpenEmbedded layer
  (cf. https://gitorious.digitalstrom.org/dss-oe/dss-oe/blobs/master/dS/meta-dss11-production/recipes-support/poco/poco_1.3.6p2.bb)
  licensed with the MIT License.
  The core-image-ros-* recipes originated from the core-image-minimal recipe in OpenEmbedded Core
  (cf. http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb)
  licensed with the MIT License.

  The original or modified files are redistributed here under the same MIT License.