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Adding ROS Catkin package to Eclipse

After doing the preceding configuration, we can start adding ROS packages to Eclipse IDE. Click on File Menu | Project... from the New Project wizard, select C/C++ | MakeFileProject with Existing Code:

Figure 6: Open the ROS package from the catkin workspace

There was a hello_world ROS package in ros_catkin_ws; we are opening this project. This package consists of two ROS nodes, talker.cpp and listener.cpp. You can open any packages on your workspace.

Give a name for this project as hello_world and browse the ROS package from the catkin workspace as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 7: Giving project ...

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