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 - 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 groovy 0.2.0 - extract into C:\opt

• rosdeps - extract into C:\opt ( 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\groovy\x86\setup.bat
> roscore

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

> call C:\opt\ros\groovy\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.