Re: [Playerstage-users] Many basic questions

[Reed H. <re...@mo...>]

Hi Giuseppe,

I can only answer about compiling Stage in Windows, myself. Other people may 
have more information.  I have used MinGW and MSYS (not Cygwin) to compile part 
of Stage (the libstage part). It required installing several additional 
libraries (GTK, etc.) and a few modifications, but was not hard. If you search 
the mailing list archives, and also the Patch Tracker on sourceforge you may 
find my instructions and patches; or you I can send them to you.

I have not tried compiling Player, the Stage plugin to Player, or Gazebo. I 
would not expect that Player would be too difficult since like Stage it is 
mostly standard C and C++. You can disable any Player drivers that are 
problematic (e.g. some of them are Linux specific or rely on external 
libraries).

I don't know anything about Gazebo myself, if the CPU is powerful enough 
software emulation of OpenGL in Mesa may be sufficient for simple graphics, but 
it may end up impacting simulation performance anyway.

Reed


Giuseppe Marullo wrote:
> Hi,
> just trying to use the PSG suite, I got stuck on several "issues".
> 
> I was able to run successfully Player/Stage, but not Gazebo.
> 
> I would like to know:
> 
> - how difficult is to compile/run Player (and possibly Stage) under CYGWIN.
> I need player under windows. If someone did it, please enlight me.
> 
> - is it possible to run Gazebo without a OpenGl Card? I would like to run
> Gazebo in a vmware machine, but it seems that there are problems with the
> OpenGl emulation. I should have a couple of suitable computers with Nvidia
> cards, but I cannot run linux natively on them.
> 
>