cartographer_ros/docs/source/compilation.rst

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Compiling Cartographer ROS
==========================

System Requirements
===================

The Cartographer ROS requirements are the same as `the ones from Cartographer`_.

The following `ROS distributions`_ are currently supported:

* Kinetic
* Melodic
* Noetic

.. _the ones from Cartographer: https://google-cartographer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#system-requirements
.. _ROS distributions: http://wiki.ros.org/Distributions

Building & Installation
=======================

In order to build Cartographer ROS, we recommend using `wstool <http://wiki.ros.org/wstool>`_ and `rosdep
<http://wiki.ros.org/rosdep>`_. For faster builds, we also recommend using
`Ninja <https://ninja-build.org>`_.

On Ubuntu Focal with ROS Noetic use these commands to install the above tools:

.. code-block:: bash

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install -y python3-wstool python3-rosdep ninja-build stow

On older distributions:

.. code-block:: bash

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install -y python-wstool python-rosdep ninja-build stow

After the tools are installed, create a new cartographer_ros workspace in 'catkin_ws'.

.. code-block:: bash

    mkdir catkin_ws
    cd catkin_ws
    wstool init src
    wstool merge -t src https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cartographer-project/cartographer_ros/master/cartographer_ros.rosinstall
    wstool update -t src

Now you need to install cartographer_ros' dependencies.
First, we use ``rosdep`` to install the required packages.
The command 'sudo rosdep init' will print an error if you have already executed it since installing ROS. This error can be ignored.

.. code-block:: bash

    sudo rosdep init
    rosdep update
    rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro=${ROS_DISTRO} -y

    # Only on Ubuntu 16 / ROS Kinetic: src/cartographer/scripts/install_proto3.sh 

Cartographer uses the `abseil-cpp`_ library that needs to be manually installed using this script:

.. code-block:: bash

    src/cartographer/scripts/install_abseil.sh 

Due to conflicting versions you might need to uninstall the ROS abseil-cpp using

.. code-block:: bash

   sudo apt-get remove ros-${ROS_DISTRO}-abseil-cpp 

Build and install.

.. code-block:: bash

    catkin_make_isolated --install --use-ninja

This builds Cartographer from the latest HEAD of the master branch.
If you want a specific version, you need to change the version in the cartographer_ros.rosinstall.

.. _abseil-cpp: https://abseil.io/