This is a layer to provide ROS in an OpenEmbedded Linux system.
Currently, this layer is still under development and not fully functional.
MAINTAINER
Lukas Bulwahn, BMW Car IT GmbH <lukas.bulwahn@oss.bmw-carit.de>
CONTRIBUTORS
Lukas Bulwahn, BMW Car IT GmbH <lukas.bulwahn@oss.bmw-carit.de>
Stefan Herbrechtsmeier, Bielefeld University <stefan@herbrechtsmeier.net>
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 we could join forces.
PURPOSE of this document:
This document describes
- the state of the current work
- the installation and use of the git repository meta_ros
- license information and origin of redistributed files
STATE OF THIS WORK:
This repository provides
- Native compilation of ROS-fuerte
- Native compilation of ROS-groovy
- Cross compilation of ROS-groovy (under development)
INSTALLATION/SETUP:
The repository only contains a layer for ROS that builds on top of the existing OpenEmbedded Core layer.
Currently, I work with
* commit 1dab754cb1ec942f86a7cf9758e6b5169e50bff3 of https://github.com/openembedded/oe-core
* commit 324ed96e28ec31cff8cef1824d20d40f9a5d46ad of git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake in the bitbake directory
* and this patch for boost: http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2013-March/036973.html
USE for cross-compilation of ROS-groovy (in development):
Currently, we 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.
PREVIOUS USE CASES
INSTALLATION:
The repository only contains a layer for ROS that builds on top of the existing OpenEmbedded Core layer.
You can download the yocto poky-danny-8.0 archive, but then you should update the distutils.bbclass,
and maybe also the url of libarchive.
To install, unpack http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.3/poky-danny-8.0.tar.bz2 into a directory <dir>.
In the directory of the layers, clone this repository into the subdirectory meta-ros.
Add the meta-ros directory to your local bblayers.conf file.
USE for native compilation of ROS-fuerte on the qemu VM:
The commands
source oe-init-build-env
bitbake core-image-ros-fuerte
builds our specifically configured linux image.
With `runqemu qemux86 qemuparams="-m 2048" core-image-ros-fuerte` the linux image runs within a virtual machine with 2048 MB of memory.
We assumed that this is running on and compiled for an x86 architecture. For other architectures, some settings must be adjusted.
On the host system, run fetch-ros-fuerte.sh in a fresh directory, e.g. ~/ros-repos/.
It clones all ros repositories locally.
After starting the virtual machine, copy the installation script from the host system to the home directory with scp.
scp lukas@192.168.7.1:/<location of repository>/install-fuerte.sh .
Adjust configuration in install-fuerte.sh and then run
sh ./install-fuerte.sh
The installation script installs ros and starts roscore.
USE for native compilation of ROS-groovy on the qemu VM:
The commands
source oe-init-build-env
bitbake core-image-ros-groovy
builds our specifically configured linux image.
With `runqemu qemux86 qemuparams="-m 2048" core-image-ros-groovy` the linux image runs within a virtual machine with 2048 MB of memory.
We assumed that this is running on and compiled for an x86 architecture. For other architectures, some settings must be adjusted.
On the host system, run mk_srcarchive.sh in some clean temporary directory.
It copies all ros sources from their URLs and puts them into one src.tar.gz archive.
After starting the virtual machine, copy the installation script from the host system to the home directory with scp.
scp lukas@192.168.7.1:/<location of repository>/install-groovy.sh .
Adjust configuration in install-groovy.sh and then run
sh ./install-groovy.sh
The installation script installs ros and starts 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 core-image-ros recipe 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 libtinyxml recipe originated from the recipe in the OpenEmbedded meta layer
(cf. http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-support/libtinyxml)
licensed with the MIT License.
The modified files are redistributed here under the same MIT License.
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