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Velodyne Driver Build Fails on Windows 10 with ROS1

Open kilocharlievictor opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

Hi, We have been trying to build the source for the Lidar Plugin integration in LG Simulator. Following link points to this git clone page: https://www.lgsimulator.com/docs/lidar-plugins. Having installed ROS for Windows from this page: http://wiki.ros.org/Installation/Windows, I am trying to build the source on WIndows machine. Fails to build with following failure. Is this source meant for building on Windows at all? Please advise.. Regards Capture Capture

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kilocharlievictor avatar Jul 19 '20 00:07 kilocharlievictor

Which branch are you using? I do not believe it has been tested on Windows. I know there are parts of the architecture (the UDP interface) that are Linux-specific but they can be replaced with something like udp_driver.

JWhitleyWork avatar Jul 19 '20 00:07 JWhitleyWork

Hi, I used the master. catkin_make fails.

kilocharlievictor avatar Jul 22 '20 05:07 kilocharlievictor

@kilocharlievictor Unfortunately, I need significantly more information than this to provide any help. I also do not have a Windows machine on which to test so I don't know how much help I can be. It is unlikely that I will be able to provide support for ROS1 on Windows so you will probably have to troubleshoot yourself. If you have any specific questions, I'll be as much help as I can. I'll leave this ticket open in case there is more discussion.

JWhitleyWork avatar Jul 29 '20 20:07 JWhitleyWork

@JWhitleyWork I also tried installing the package in windows. On performing rosdep install, i got the following error: ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved to system dependencies: velodyne_driver: No definition of [libpcap] for OS [windows] Continuing to install resolvable dependencies... #All required rosdeps installed successfully

Is there anything I can try to resolve this?

kinger-ml avatar Oct 01 '20 08:10 kinger-ml

@kinger-ml libpcap is a library that allows the reading of PCAP files from wireshark. I don't know of an alternative for this on Windows. I don't really even know how the ROS2 on Windows ecosystem works so any help with this would be appreciated.

JWhitleyWork avatar Dec 03 '20 22:12 JWhitleyWork

@JWhitleyWork winpcap is the windows alternative for libpcap. Currently, I have created a non-ROS application to capture the packets from Velodyne lidar and it is working correctly. I will check if using winpcap, I can resolve this issue during the ROS installation.

kinger-ml avatar Dec 03 '20 23:12 kinger-ml