Markus Vieth

For your information: this also came up in PCL itself a few months ago: https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5598#issuecomment-1421569483 It was fixed by reordering the point type registration macros: https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5604 (the fix will be...

@SteveMacenski Are there still plans for a release?

melodic-devel

Did you make sure that boost is installed?

The speedup is obviously very nice, but as you said, duplicating the code of `pcl::fromPCLPointCloud2` is not a good idea. Future changes and improvements to that function would not reach...

@facontidavide Would you like to open a pull request at https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl with a first draft? Then we can discuss everything further there and decide whether that's the way we want...

So I tested my idea from above a bit (creating a new templated function `fromPCLPointCloud2 (const T& msg, pcl::PointCloud& cloud)` in PCL), but the time stamp in the header is...

Did you try to find out which package is required through which other package, for example with the answers from [this stackoverflow question](https://askubuntu.com/questions/132872/how-can-i-determine-why-apt-get-will-install-a-package)?

Found the problem, it is caused by VTK through PCL: VTK uses `CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH` during configuration in some versions, but does not properly reset it (see [here](https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/blob/master/CMake/vtk-config.cmake.in), search for `CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH`). More...

@mathstuf Thank you for your comment. I created an issue in the catkin repo, maybe the maintainers there can shed some more light on this