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Building both librealsense and RealSense Camera from Sources
Description: Instructions for building both librealsense AND realsense_camera package from source files in the same workspace.Keywords: realsense, librealsense, build, source, sources
Tutorial Level: ADVANCED
Contents
Cloning sources into catkin Workspace
# Create the catkin workspace mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src cd ~/catkin_ws/src # Download the source files git clone https://github.com/intel-ros/realsense.git git clone https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense.git # Checkout the latest stable code cd ~/catkin_ws/src/realsense git checkout -b stable-branch stable cd ~/catkin_ws/src/librealsense git checkout -b stable-branch stable
Install Dependencies
# Update the dependencies database rosdep update # Attempt to install dependencies # Requires that your login has sudo privileges to instal as root using apt-get cd ~/catkin_ws rosdep -y install --from-paths src --ignore-src
Build the Packages
Build librealsense FIRST
cd ~/catkin_ws catkin_make --pkg librealsense
Build realsense_camera second
cd ~/catkin_ws # Remove any existing realsense_camera binaries catkin_make clean --pkg realsense_camera # Build the package catkin_make --pkg realsense_camera
Use the Package
source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash roslaunch realsense_camera r200_nodelet_default.launch
