ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Building an ROS package

Once you have your package created and you have some code, it is necessary to build the package. When the package is built, the code contained in it is compiled; this includes not only the code added by the user, but also the code generated from the messages and services.

To build a package, we will use the catkin_make tool, as follows:

    $ cd ~/dev/catkin_ws/
    
    $ catkin_make  

In a few seconds, you will see something similar to the following screenshot:

If you don't encounter any failures, the package is compiled.

Remember that you should run the catkin_make command in the workspace folder. If you try to do it in any other ...