Nix development environment for ROS 2

Preface

Easy to use Nix development environment for ROS 2 for COM2009.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• How to use
• Links
• Packages for MacOS

How to use

Follow the instruction on ./documentation.org for macOS.

For linux:

First build the current docker image.

docker build -t ros2_image .

docker run -it -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix --privileged ros2_image

You now have access to your ros2 dev environment (shared volumes etc coming soon)

Links

• Currently getting stuck due to upstream bug - ros2/ros2cli#713
• https://github.com/ros2-gbp - compiled releases?
• https://robostack.github.io/GettingStarted.html - robostack for mac.

Packages for MacOS

https://docs.ros.org/en/jazzy/Installation/Alternatives/macOS-Development-Setup.html#

asio assimp bison bullet cmake console_bridge cppcheck \ cunit eigen freetype graphviz opencv openssl orocos-kdl pcre poco \ pyqt@5 python qt@5 sip spdlog tinyxml2