ROS的包编译有两种方法（我知道的），一种是用rosmake，这种方法简单；另一种是用catkin_make，这种方法更方便包的管理和开发。这两种方法都是先建立工作空间workspace（类似于vs下的解决方案，用来管理很多的项目），然后建立包package（类似于vs下的项目），最后利用rosmake或者catkin_make进行编译和运行。学会第一种方式，再去学习第二种就很简单了。源码附在每个小节的后面。

1、rosmake编译包package

 

1.1、创建工作空间

在开始具体工作之前，首先创建工作空间，并且为工作空间设置环境变量到~/.bashrc中，如果要查看已有的空间路径，可以用查询命令

$ echo $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH

你将会看到如下的信息：

/home/horsetail/dev/rosbook:/home/horsetail/catkin_ws/src:/opt/ros/jade/share:/opt/ros/jade/stacks

这里的创建空间实际上就是先建立一个文件夹，然后把文件夹的路径设置到环境变量~/.bashrc中。例如我们这里创建目录~/dev/rosbook作为工作空间。

首先执行命令：

$ cd ~$ mkdir -p dev/rosbook

然后将创建的路径加入到环境变量中，执行如下命令：

$ echo "export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/dev/rosbook:${ROS_PACKAGE_PATH}" >> ~/.bashrc$ . ~/.bashrc

这样，我们就完成了工作空间的配置，注意：ROS安装的时候，一定要把ROS的环境变量也加到~/.bashrc中。这里还需要把ROS。接下来就是在这个空间下创建包了。

 

1.2、创建包

 可以手动创建包，但是非常的繁琐，为了方便，最好使用roscreate-pkg命令行工具，该命令行的格式如下：

roscreate-pkg [package_name] [depend1] [depend2] [depend3] ...

命令行包含了要创建包的名字，依赖包。

我们的例子中，创建一个叫mypacakge1的 新包，命令如下：

$ cd ~/dev/rosbook$ roscreate-pkg mypackage1 std_msgs roscpp rospy

过一会弹出如下的信息，表示创建成功：

Created package directory /home/horsetail/dev/rosbook/mypackage1Created include directory /home/horsetail/dev/rosbook/mypackage1/include/mypackage1Created cpp source directory /home/horsetail/dev/rosbook/mypackage1/srcCreated package file /home/horsetail/dev/rosbook/mypackage1/MakefileCreated package file /home/horsetail/dev/rosbook/mypackage1/manifest.xmlCreated package file /home/horsetail/dev/rosbook/mypackage1/CMakeLists.txtCreated package file /home/horsetail/dev/rosbook/mypackage1/mainpage.doxPlease edit mypackage1/manifest.xml and mainpage.dox to finish creating your package

好了这样就完成了包的创建，我们发现在mypackage1的目录下有一个src文件夹，我们接下来就是网这里添加源程序了。

 

1.3、代码编辑和编译

 参考ROS官方网站的教程，我们编写一个编写简单的消息发布器和订阅器 (C++)，即编写俩个源文件talker.cpp和listener.cpp，并将他们保存到~/dev/rosbook/mypackage1/src目录中。

代码理解可以参考ROS_wiki：

发布器就是一个说话者talker，/mypackage1/srctalker.cpp代码如下：

#include "ros/ros.h"#include "std_msgs/String.h"#include 
     
      int main(int argc, char **argv){
      ros::init(argc, argv, "talker");  ros::NodeHandle n;  ros::Publisher chatter_pub = n.advertise
      
       ("chatter", 1000);  ros::Rate loop_rate(10);  int count = 0;  while (ros::ok())  {
        std_msgs::String msg;    std::stringstream ss;    ss << "hello world " << count;    msg.data = ss.str();    ROS_INFO("%s", msg.data.c_str());     chatter_pub.publish(msg);    ros::spinOnce();    loop_rate.sleep();    ++count;  }  return 0;}
      
     

订阅者就是一个听话人listener，他不停地接受talker广播出来的消息，并显示到屏幕上，/mypackage1/srclistener.cpp的代码为：

include "ros/ros.h"#include "std_msgs/String.h" void chatterCallback(const std_msgs::String::ConstPtr& msg){  ROS_INFO("I heard: [%s]", msg->data.c_str());}int main(int argc, char **argv){
      ros::init(argc, argv, "listener");  ros::NodeHandle n;  ros::Subscriber sub = n.subscribe("chatter", 1000, chatterCallback);    ros::spin();  return 0;}

好了，把上面的源文件放到mypackage1/src下就可以了。

接下来，要告诉编译器如何去找到这两个文件。你需要打开mypackage1/CMakeLists.txt，在文件的末尾添加两行命令：

rosbuild_add_executable(talker src/talker.cpp)rosbuild_add_executable(listener src/listener.cpp)

 添加后的文件结构是这样的：

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.4.6)include($ENV{ROS_ROOT}/core/rosbuild/rosbuild.cmake)# Set the build type.  Options are:#  Coverage       : w/ debug symbols, w/o optimization, w/ code-coverage#  Debug          : w/ debug symbols, w/o optimization#  Release        : w/o debug symbols, w/ optimization#  RelWithDebInfo : w/ debug symbols, w/ optimization#  MinSizeRel     : w/o debug symbols, w/ optimization, stripped binaries#set(ROS_BUILD_TYPE RelWithDebInfo)rosbuild_init()#set the default path for built executables to the "bin" directoryset(EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/bin)#set the default path for built libraries to the "lib" directoryset(LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib)#uncomment if you have defined messagesrosbuild_genmsg()#uncomment if you have defined servicesrosbuild_gensrv()#common commands for building c++ executables and libraries#rosbuild_add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} src/example.cpp)#target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} another_library)#rosbuild_add_boost_directories()#rosbuild_link_boost(${PROJECT_NAME} thread)#rosbuild_add_executable(example examples/example.cpp)#target_link_libraries(example ${PROJECT_NAME})rosbuild_add_executable(talker src/talker.cpp)rosbuild_add_executable(listener src/listener.cpp)

 万事具备，这样我们就可用rosmake命令来编译这个mypackage1包了。执行下面的命令：

$ rosmake mypackage1

输出下面的信息：

horsetail@horsetail-book:~$ roscore... logging to /home/horsetail/.ros/log/6eae5b9c-628d-11e5-8bd7-3859f9722953/roslaunch-horsetail-book-6447.logChecking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile.Press Ctrl-C to interruptDone checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.started roslaunch server http://horsetail-book:44362/ros_comm version 1.11.13SUMMARY========PARAMETERS * /rosdistro: jade * /rosversion: 1.11.13NODESauto-starting new masterprocess[master]: started with pid [6459]ROS_MASTER_URI=http://horsetail-book:11311/ ...(内容太长了，省去)              [ rosmake ] Results:                                                            [ rosmake ] Built 26 packages with 0 failures.                                  [ rosmake ] Summary output to directory                                         [ rosmake ] /home/horsetail/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20150924-164014

哇，编译通过，大家注意到实际上也是用catkin进行编译的，额。我们来运行一下吧。

 

1.4、运行

首先打开一个新的终端，启动初始化ROS，执行命令：

$ roscore

然后再打开一个新的终端，启动talker节点，执行命令：

$ rosrun mypackage1 talker

然后再打开一个新的终端，启动listener节点，执行命令：

$ rosrun mypackage1 listener

这个时候，可以看到listener的窗口不断的接收到数据，如下图所示：

[ INFO] [1443085572.809193925]: I heard:[I am the talker node][ INFO] [1443085572.909233411]: I heard:[I am the talker node][ INFO] [1443085573.009267370]: I heard:[I am the talker node][ INFO] [1443085573.109118292]: I heard:[I am the talker node][ INFO] [1443085573.209204095]: I heard:[I am the talker node][ INFO] [1443085573.309314244]: I heard:[I am the talker node][ INFO] [1443085573.409269818]: I heard:[I am the talker node][ INFO] [1443085573.509309147]: I heard:[I am the talker node]

这说明talker广播的消息是能够被listener接收到的，因此程序可以正常运行了。好了，至此基于rosmake的编译和运行完成了。

 

1.5、源码

最后，附上源码：

 

2、catkin_make编译包package

catkin命令创建工作空间和包相对要复杂些，但是熟悉以后对项目的管理是非常有利的，因此官方也建议使用第二种方式。

 

2.1、创建工作空间

在开始具体工作之前，首先创建工作空间，并且为工作空间设置环境变量到~/.bashrc中，如果要查看已有的空间路径，可以用查询命令

$ echo $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH

你将会看到如下的信息：

/home/horsetail/dev/rosbook:/home/horsetail/catkin_ws/src:/opt/ros/jade/share:/opt/ros/jade/stacks

这里的创建空间实际上就是先建立一个文件夹，然后把文件夹的路径设置到环境变量~/.bashrc中。例如我们这里创建目录~/dev/rosbook作为工作空间，和第一种方法类似。

下面我们开始创建一个：

$ mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src$ cd ~/catkin_ws/src

即使这个工作空间是空的（在'src'目录中没有任何软件包，只有一个CMakeLists.txt链接文件），你依然可以“build”它：

$ cd ~/catkin_ws/ $ catkin_make

接下来首先source一下新生成的setup.*sh文件，把它加入环境变量到~/.bashrc文件中：

$ source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash

到此你的工作空间环境已经搭建完成

 

2.2、创建包

 首先切换到之前创建的catkin工作空间中的src目录下：

$ cd ~/catkin_ws/src

现在使用catkin_create_pkg命令来创建一个名为'mypackage1'的新程序包，这个程序包依赖于std_msgs、roscpp和rospy：

$ catkin_create_pkg mypackage1 std_msgs rospy roscpp

这将会创建一个名为beginner_tutorials的文件夹，这个文件夹里面包含一个文件和一个文件，这两个文件都已经自动包含了部分你在执行catkin_create_pkg命令时提供的信息。

和第一种方法类似类似，把1.3节中的两个talker.cpp和listener.cpp拷贝到mypackage1/src下。

接下来，要告诉编译器如何去找到这两个文件。你需要打开mypackage1/CMakeLists.txt，在文件的末尾添加命令：

include_directories(include ${catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS})add_executable(talker src/talker.cpp)target_link_libraries(talker ${catkin_LIBRARIES})add_executable(listener src/listener.cpp)target_link_libraries(listener ${catkin_LIBRARIES})

整理后的mypackage/CMakeLists.txt内容结构如下：

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.3)project(mypackage1)## Find catkin and any catkin packagesfind_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS roscpp rospy std_msgs)## Declare ROS messages and services#add_message_files(FILES Num.msg)#默认是不注释掉的，编译会出错#add_service_files(FILES AddTwoInts.srv)#默认是不注释掉的，编译会出错## Generate added messages and services#generate_messages(DEPENDENCIES std_msgs)#默认是不注释掉的，编译会出错## Declare a catkin packagecatkin_package()## Build talker and listenerinclude_directories(include ${catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS})add_executable(talker src/talker.cpp)target_link_libraries(talker ${catkin_LIBRARIES})add_dependencies(talker beginner_tutorials_generate_messages_cpp)add_executable(listener src/listener.cpp)target_link_libraries(listener ${catkin_LIBRARIES})add_dependencies(listener beginner_tutorials_generate_messages_cpp)

注意：CMakeLists.txt中的有三那个命令是保留的:

## Declare ROS messages and services#add_message_files(FILES Num.msg)#add_service_files(FILES AddTwoInts.srv)## Generate added messages and services#generate_messages(DEPENDENCIES std_msgs)

这是关于服务消息方面的，这个项目中并没有用到，因此必须要注释掉，否则编译会出现错误如下：

Base path: /home/horsetail/catkin_wsSource space: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/srcBuild space: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/buildDevel space: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/develInstall space: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/install######## Running command: "make cmake_check_build_system" in "/home/horsetail/catkin_ws/build"####-- Using CATKIN_DEVEL_PREFIX: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/devel-- Using CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/devel;/opt/ros/jade-- This workspace overlays: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/devel;/opt/ros/jade-- Using PYTHON_EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/python-- Using Debian Python package layout-- Using empy: /usr/bin/empy-- Using CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING: ON-- Call enable_testing()-- Using CATKIN_TEST_RESULTS_DIR: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/build/test_results-- Found gtest sources under '/usr/src/gtest': gtests will be built-- Using Python nosetests: /usr/bin/nosetests-2.7-- catkin 0.6.14-- BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is on-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-- ~~  traversing 1 packages in topological order:-- ~~  - mypackage1-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-- +++ processing catkin package: 'mypackage1'-- ==> add_subdirectory(mypackage1)CMake Error at mypackage1/CMakeLists.txt:8 (add_message_files):  Unknown CMake command "add_message_files".-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!See also "/home/horsetail/catkin_ws/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".See also "/home/horsetail/catkin_ws/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".make: *** [cmake_check_build_system] 错误 1

这个错误也折腾了我一阵子，以此铭记之。

好了，接下来就是编译它了。

 

2.3、编译

  是一个命令行工具，它简化了catkin的标准工作流程。你可以认为是在CMake标准工作流程中依次调用了cmake 和 make。

使用方法:

# 在catkin工作空间下$ catkin_make [make_targets] [-DCMAKE_VARIABLES=...]

记得事先source你的环境配置(setup)文件，在Ubuntu中的操作指令如下：

$ source /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash

切换到catkin workspace ：

$ cd ~/catkin_ws/

执行编译:

$ catkin_make

输出如下编译信息：

Base path: /home/horsetail/catkin_wsSource space: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/srcBuild space: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/buildDevel space: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/develInstall space: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/install######## Running command: "make cmake_check_build_system" in "/home/horsetail/catkin_ws/build"####-- Using CATKIN_DEVEL_PREFIX: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/devel-- Using CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/devel;/opt/ros/jade-- This workspace overlays: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/devel;/opt/ros/jade-- Using PYTHON_EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/python-- Using Debian Python package layout-- Using empy: /usr/bin/empy-- Using CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING: ON-- Call enable_testing()-- Using CATKIN_TEST_RESULTS_DIR: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/build/test_results-- Found gtest sources under '/usr/src/gtest': gtests will be built-- Using Python nosetests: /usr/bin/nosetests-2.7-- catkin 0.6.14-- BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is on-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-- ~~  traversing 1 packages in topological order:-- ~~  - mypackage1-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-- +++ processing catkin package: 'mypackage1'-- ==> add_subdirectory(mypackage1)-- Configuring done-- Generating done-- Build files have been written to: /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/build######## Running command: "make -j4 -l4" in "/home/horsetail/catkin_ws/build"####Scanning dependencies of target talkerScanning dependencies of target listener[ 50%] Building CXX object mypackage1/CMakeFiles/listener.dir/src/listener.cpp.o[100%] Building CXX object mypackage1/CMakeFiles/talker.dir/src/talker.cpp.oLinking CXX executable /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/devel/lib/mypackage1/talker[100%] Built target talkerLinking CXX executable /home/horsetail/catkin_ws/devel/lib/mypackage1/listener[100%] Built target listener

恭喜编译成功了，接下来可以尝下先。

 

2.4、运行

运行的步骤和1.3是一样的，请参阅1.3的详细描述。因为按照两种方法编译了两个相同的包名和节点，因此在启动时会提示选择哪一个节点进行运行，按照提示选择即可。

 

2.5、源码

最后，附上源码：

 

参考资料

[1]. Aaron Martinez Enrique Fern andez, ROS机器人程序设计[B], P14-42, 2014.