setup_with_dev.md

Using Capabilities package (Development and Deployment)

The current package has been tested on Ubuntu and ROS2 Humble, Rolling and Jazzy. Complete following sections in order.

Base folder creation

Create the workspace folder by running following commands in the terminal.

mkdir -p /home/$USER/capabilities_ws/src
cd /home/$USER/capabilities_ws/src

Cloning the Package

Clone the package using Git

git clone -b develop https://github.com/CollaborativeRoboticsLab/capabilities2.git
git clone -b develop https://github.com/CollaborativeRoboticsLab/std_capabilities.git

Devcontainer

A devcontainer is provided for developing the capabilities2 meta-package. The container can be used with Microsoft Visual Studio Code and Remote Development Extention.

If there are multiple packages in the workspace as with the usual case, move the .devcontainer folder into the parent folder such that it is located as follows,

colcon_ws
--> build
--> install
--> log
--> src
    --> .devcontainer
    --> capabilities2
    --> pakcage ..

Close and reopen the vs code editor so that devcontainer is automatically detected. After that, Dependencies need to be installed in the container. Install the dependencies with rosdep:

# in the devcontainer
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y

Compile

Use colcon to build the packages:

colcon build