Re: [simspark-devel] preview of rcssserver3d-0.5.7

[Joschka B. <jos...@am...>]

Hi all,

On Mar 24, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Yuan Xu wrote:

> I updated the new preview of rcssserver3d-0.5.7 in
> http://xuyuan.cn.googlepages.com/rcssserver3d-0.5.7-preview.tar.gz
>

Thanks for putting together the release preview, Yuan!

> Could you take a look at it?
> if there is not any problem, I will publish it tomorrow.

I tested the code and came across a few issues, but I think they're  
all Mac OS X (Leopard) related:

* I had to add an include to lib/oxygen/simulationserver/ 
netmessage.cpp to provide otherwise missing types (I didn't have the  
problem in Tiger).

* I added the directory 'macosX' to EXTRA_DIST in the top-most  
Makefile.am; I couldn't compile the code without the files in that  
directory

* I had conflicting typedefs in /usr/local/include/ode/config.h and a  
system header (again, this was no problem in Tiger). I didn't know an  
elegant workaround for the problem right away, so I had to comment out  
the 'typedef unsigned short uint32' in the ODE config header; this  
way, the code compiles, but this hack is -- of course -- not  
satisfactory :-( Does anybody have a good idea how to prevent this  
conflict?

* I noticed that the user's manual is missing the references; maybe it  
was created without running Bibtex? Also, there are still some things  
missing and incorrect in the manual (I know for sure that the table  
with dimensions of the Soccerbot is still wrong, I didn't have time to  
correct it yet :-( ), so we should maybe tell people that this is  
still work in progress (but feedback is welcome of course :-) ).

After successful compilation, I could run the server without problems,  
but when I connected agentspark (using the composite bodies), I got  
the same error as reported by Feng Xue on the sserver-three-d list  
today (using ODE 0.9):

ODE INTERNAL ERROR 2: The centre of mass must be at the origin. in  
dBodySetMass()
(Core) caught signal 6
(Core) exit

Does anybody know what could cause this? I had this running without  
problems before.

Cheers,
Joschka