br_ros

buildroot packages for Robot OS

DEPENDENCIES:

currently ROS needs boost 1.66 and not upper version to use "signal" component Currently only Buildroot 2018.05.x branch is available.

INSTALL:

$ git clone https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot.git -b 2018.05.x
$ git clone <this package URL>
$ cd br_ros
$ make -C <buildroot directory> O=${PWD}/output BR2_EXTERNAL=${PWD} BR2_CONFIG=ros_raspi3_defconfig defconfig
$ cd output
$ make

TODO:

• ros-comm/client-roscpp:
  it uses boost signal but this component of boost is deprecated since boost 1.67

• ros-actionlib:
  it uses boost date-time with subsecond_duration which is not any more supported.

• ros framework is composed by repositories with several sub-directories and cmake files.
  Buildroot package accept only one subdir entry inside a cmake package.
  An evolution of Buildroot should be to accept several subdir entries inside the same package

• catkin is an overlay on cmake. This tools allows to manage components installation outside the pkgconfig tools. Perhaps catkin should be integrated inside buildroot... may be... not sure... why another overlay???