Goal

This is for people who want to:

• Develop relatively simple libraries/apps within the visual studio ide.

If you want to develop with msvc in the usual ros framework (which gives you access at automatic dependency handling, msg/srv generation etc), you should use the rosbuild2 build environment directly.

Installation

Boost

• boostpro : version 1.44 is known to work.

SDK

Download sdk-electric-x86-vs10.zip. You can extract it anywhere. You should then find:

ros-sdk/debug : debug versions of the libraries and headers.
ros-sdk/release : release versions of the libraries and headers.
ros-sdk/sdk_tutorials : unit test visual studio solution (listener/talker).
ros-sdk/setup.bat : sets library search paths and ros variables.

Testing

Edit setup.bat and modify variables appropriately for your environment. You'll need to choose one of debug or release here.

Roscpp Tutorials

Fire up a roscore on a linux machine with ROS_MASTER_URI and ROS_IP set appropriately (from above settings, it would be ROS_MASTER_URI=http://192.168.10.161:11311 and ROS_IP=192.168.10.161).

> setup
> cd %ROS_SDK_DIR%\bin
> talker        # listener, listener_unreliable...

Sdk Tutorials

Open the solution in sdk_tutorials. It should build without any modifications unless you installed a different version of boost or installed it in the non-default location. If you did, correct the include/link directory options for each project.

Note: you may wish to have a look at listener.cpp and talker.cpp - they outline how you might set the ROS_XXX variables via api rather than environment variable.

Again, run setup.bat in a shell to set your environment and then run the resulting talker, listener.