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Building RQt from Source

System Requirements

These instructions are written for the target platforms for Crystal Clemmeys (see REP).

  • Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 64-bit
  • Mac OSX Sierra 10.12.x
  • Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2017

Other Requirements

  • In ROS 2 Crystal the minimum Qt version is Qt5

Building From Source

In order to build RQt from source, first create a ROS2 workspace at ~/ros2_ws/. This is step is already covered in building ROS 2 from source. instructions, so we skip it here.

Download RQt Repositories

cd ~/ros2_ws
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PickNikRobotics/rqt2_setup/master/rqt2.repos
vcs import src --force < rqt2.repos

As an alternative to the hosted .repos file you can use rosinstall_generator to generate a custom one:

rosinstall_generator --rosdistro crystal --upstream-development --repos python_qt_binding qt_gui_core rqt <more-repos-with-rqt-plugins> > rqt2.repos

Install Dependencies

For non-Linux platforms, see the macOS RQt source install page or the Windows 10 RQt source install page before continuing here.

rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro bouncy -y --skip-keys "console_bridge fastcdr fastrtps libopensplice67 rti-connext-dds-5.3.1 urdfdom_headers"

Build The Workspace

Generally building a workspace is as simple as:

colcon build

For Windows, it is recommended to use the --merge-install option.

colcon build --merge-install

Advanced Colcon usages:

  • Show verbose output on the console:

    colcon build –event-handlers console_direct+

  • Only build one package and its dependencies:

    colcon build –packages-up-to rqt_shell

Source your environment

Linux or macOS

. install/local_setup.bash

Windows

call install/local_setup.bat

Using RQt

See Overview of RQt.