ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

ROS compile script for Eclipse IDE

Compiling ROS nodes needs the ROS environment. We have to source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash to access the ROS environment in the current terminal. We can work from the system terminal because we already added this line to the .bashrc file, but when we work using Eclipse, we have to make a script to do this.

Create a file called eclipsemake in /usr/local/bin using the following command:

    $ sudo nano /usr/local/bin/eclipsemake
  

Enter the following commands in this file:

    #!/bin/bash
    
    source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash
    
    make "$@" VERBOSE=1 -j8
  

Figure 4: Script to source the ROS environment

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