[Buildroot] [ros-users] Cross Compiling ROS

[Vadym Kochan]

Hi Mina,

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 04:28:09PM +0200, mina magdy wrote:
> Hello everyone. My name is Mina and I am working on a project that needs to
> cross compiler ROS with buildroot on RPi3 target but I faced many problems
> in the dependencies of ROS. So any one can guide me to build ROS whit a
> compatible version with buildroot. I hope to build an image that will be
> used in buildroot open source community.

I found looked at ros on github:

    https://github.com/ros

and there are a lot of packages for ROS, BUT it looks like there is catkin
(https://github.com/ros/catkin) which actually (as I understood) does
build, install, and dependency-handling for these packages (it look like
a cmake + pythton set of tools/macroses). So the first task I think
should be to add catkin as yet-another package manager (for example like
buildroot/package/pkg-waf.mk) into Buildroot, and after you can add
other minimal set of ROS-packages to build ROS image by Buildroot.

Regards,
Vadim Kochan