[Roboticsprimer-users] to Jw

[Robotics P. u. h. l. <rob...@li...>]

Jw
Thank you for you response. I had already worked my way to a solution before I 
got your e-mail. I am not being critical but your responses don't tell me what I needed to know
The Library in question was produced by compiling the code in roboticsprimer/player
I know that now, but at the time I did not know if it came for player-2.0.4
or some other package or I was supposed to make it up or what???
My solution of hacking cr8.pc to roombaDev.pc allowed me to move on and discover how the 
system had been set up.
I am very impressed in the quality of the code in robotics-primer
everyone involved has done an outstanding job! 
Given the interest in this subject and the title "robotics PRIMER" (my emphasis) 
I suggest you will shortly be getting a lot of responses for people 
even more ignorant that myself, if that is conceivable.
My oh so humble suggestion is that you turn my catalog of errors
into advice for the un-initiated, I am willing to support this is any way.
You are, of course, permitted to ignore my humble suggestions 

roombaDev.pc is a file required by pkg-config to locate the roomba  
library - in your previous email, you said that you got the error  
when you tried to compile one of the exercises, right? roombaDev.pc  
should have been generated after you compiled the library. Retrace  
your steps - was there an error when you compiled the library that  
tells you roombaDev.pc could not be generated?

player-2.0.4/server/drivers/mixed/irobot/roomba is the driver from  
the Player server - you are looking for the library from the  
workbook. This is the wrong place to look.

As I said before, I'm away from my Linux machine at the moment, and  
cannot tell you exactly where this .pc file is. (it's usually in libs/ 
pkgconfig). If you can't wait, I would suggest that you write your  
own Scons/Makefile to compile the exercise code (assuming that you  
actually have the library and the only thing missing is the .pc file).

Jw

       
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