How to export header and library build flags for non-catkin projects?

Question

For some of our in-house ROS nodes, I want to link against some of our proprietary headers and libraries, none of which are built using catkin or cmake. What I would like to do is create a ROS package that acts as a wrapper, so that all my other ROS packages can just list the wrapper package as a dependency, and all the include and library C++ flags that point to our proprietary software are automatically included. What's the most efficient way to do that?

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Originally posted by Tom Moore on ROS Answers with karma: 13689 on 2014-04-08

Post score: 2

Answer 1

The easiest way to provide custom CMake logic with a catkin package is using an extras file:

http://docs.ros.org/api/catkin/html/dev_guide/generated_cmake_api.html#catkin_package

This allows you to specify a cmake file for catkin to include(...) anytime that package is find_package'ed.

Related:

http://answers.ros.org/question/93266/how-to-export-non-standard-include-directories-in-catkin/

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Originally posted by William with karma: 17335 on 2014-04-08

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 3

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Original comments

Comment by Tom Moore on 2014-04-08:
Great, thank you.