Building gazebo and ros from source using catkin
Hi all,
I need to build gazebo 8 from source, since I am working on the implementation of a new sensor. I want to use gazebo 8, because I want to use actors. I will also need to build gazebo_ros_pkgs from source so that I can generate ros topics for the new sensor.
The documentation mentions that to use gazebo_ros_pkgs with gazebo8, ros will also be needed to build from source.
I started following tutorials to build each of these projects from source. I created a separate catkin workspace for each of these projects
- catkin_ros
- catkin_gazebo
- catkin_gazebo_ros
I downloaded the source file in the appropriate source folders, and used the build commands provided in the tutorials to build all the projects.
For gazebo this was :
catkin build -vi --cmake-args \ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \ -DBUILD_CORE_ONLY=ON \ -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \ -DUSE_DOUBLE_PRECISION=ON \
For ros this was:
catkin_make_isolated --install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
The problem is, that if I source both the catkin_gazebo/devel/setup.bash and the catkin_ros/devel/setup.bash files, the latter will overwrite the initial one.
I have tried putting all projects into one catkin workspace, but then I have no idea how to build all projects with a single command (I don't really get the difference between catkin build and catkin_make_isolated)
I hope someone can clarify the correct process to build both these projects from source.
