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No longer supported! Please use the groovy build instructions.

Overview

ROS Fuerte is EOL, and these instructions for getting it to work on Windows are severely outdated. They are only kept here for historical reasons.

Please do not expect these steps to work, or try to follow them.

For future Windows support, see the relevant ROS2 resources.

We now have enough functionality and enough to be useful in some situations. The mingw cross compiles are fairly stable and the msvc is now native thanks to a 100% cmake build environment codenamed catkin. To be practical, we are not targeting the windows environment as a full blown replacement for linux-ros as windows doesn't have the mechanisms to handle the scaling of complexity (e.g. rosdeps), but it needs to be useful in some simple use case scenarios. For example,

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Getting Started

WinRos on Windows

This is for native windows development with the microsoft 2010 compiler. Currently supporting either windows sdk 7.1 (cl/nmake) or visual studio 10.0.

For more advanced usage:

WinRos on Linux

This is for the control roboticists who love working in linux and get flustered when asked to build windows apps for the rest of the world (namely users/test engineers) there is the mingw cross-compiler. There is also qt support here - write the code once and compile your qt app for both windows and linux without any changes.

Where To Go From Here


2023-10-28 13:11