PRBonn / g2o_catkin

:octocat: G2O meets catkin

G2O meets Catkin

The package is a wrapper around G2O to allow using it easily with Catkin.

Funtionality

It features a CMake script that carries out main functions:

• downloads specified G2O tag from GitHub repository (newest by default)
• exports G2O includes, so they are available as ${g2o_catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS} for other catkin packages.
• exports G2O libraries, so they are available as ${g2o_catkin_LIBRARIES} for other catkin packages.

How to use?

Just copy it to your catkin workspace and run:

• catkin build g2o_catkin

Alternatively, you can run cmake from source:

• mkdir build
• cd build
• cmake ..

Also, you can pass git tag if you want to:

• cmake -DGIT_TAG=61ad5f87abf21b37fcb87d6343bab2512e58712d ..

It downloads and builds G2O. It takes a lot of time, so have patience.

Some details

This package does all the work in CMake phase. The reason for this is that we need to have access to all libraries built by G2O by the time we reach the end of CMakeLists.txt stored in this repository. There is no need to build (read: run make on) this repository as it does not define any new targets.