Overview

This is for people who want to develop ros applications on Windows using Microsoft Visual C++ 2010(Express).

Installations

Python packages:

• Python 2.7.2, and add C:\Python27\ and C:\Python27\Scripts to your PATH variable.

• PyWin32 217

• PyYaml 3.10

• Setup Tools 0.6c11

• WinRos Python Build Tools 0.2.5 - catkin-pkg, rospkg, vcstools, wstool, win_ros

SDK:

• win_ros pre-compiled sdk 0.3.1 - extract into C:\opt.

Additionally extract the following archives to C:\opt.

• rosdeps : boost 1.47.0, bzip2 1.06, log4cxx 0.10, tinyxml 2.6.2, eigen 3.2.1

Testing

In three shells:

> call C:\opt\ros\hydro\x86\setup.bat
> roscore

> call C:\opt\ros\hydro\x86\setup.bat
> roslaunch msvc_runtime talker.launch

> call C:\opt\ros\hydro\x86\setup.bat
> roslaunch msvc_runtime listener.launch

For information on how to develop with the sdk, proceed to the next tutorial Msvc SDK Projects.