tf2 stamped datatypes tutorial fails to build

Question

I'm trying to walk through the tf2 tutorials following the instructions here: http://wiki.ros.org/tf2/Tutorials/Using%20stamped%20datatypes%20with%20tf2%3A%3AMessageFilter

Trying to build the source code with catkin results in

fatal error: tf2/transform_listener.h: No such file or directory.

Upon changing the two include files to
#include "tf2_ros/transform_listener.h" #include "tf2_ros/message_filter.h"

The code can find the header files but now the tf2 member functions are throwing errors. Changing things to tf2_ros:: fixes some errors but others arise. This results in a few questions on my end

1. What is the difference between tf2 and tf2_ros? Can people point me to documentation on this
2. Is syncing Stamped data to a specific transformation in time even done via message filters in tf2 or is this functionality replaced with tfBuffer?
3. Is there a tf2 tutorial that shows how to time sync transformations and stamped datatypes with the correct implementation?

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Originally posted by eddy.scott on ROS Answers with karma: 36 on 2016-01-16

Post score: 0

Answer 1

It should be fixed now. The code is versioned here : https://github.com/ros/geometry_tutorials/blob/indigo-devel/turtle_tf2/src/message_filter.cpp

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Originally posted by Vincent R with karma: 365 on 2016-08-25

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 2

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Original comments

Comment by gvdhoorn on 2016-08-25:
Thanks for reporting back and providing a solution.

For reference: ros/geometry_tutorials#24.