new package gazebo does not compile!

Question

Hello!

I checked out today the gazebo package, from simulator_gazebo: https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/simulator_gazebo/trunk and it does not compile! I get a lot of errors, concerning the urdf2gazebo. Here is the beginning of the error messages:

  /opt/ros/diamondback/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/src/urdf2gazebo.cpp:755: error: ‘class urdf::Link’ has no member named ‘addCollision’ 
/opt/ros/diamondback/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/src/urdf2gazebo.cpp: In member function ‘void 
urdf2gazebo::URDF2Gazebo::printCollisionGroups(boost::shared_ptr<urdf::Link>)’:
/opt/ros/diamondback/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/src/urdf2gazebo.cpp:801: error: ‘class urdf::Link’ has no member named ‘collision_groups’

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I reinstalled my ROS-System today, from: sudo apt-get install ros-diamondback-desktop-full

Can anyone tell me what I am missing? thanks

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Originally posted by Kike on ROS Answers with karma: 41 on 2011-06-03

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by Asomerville on 2011-06-05:
Actually the "edit" link below your posts allows you to edit it after the fact.

Comment by Kike on 2011-06-03:
of course, sorry! i will keep it in mind for the next time!

Comment by Asomerville on 2011-06-03:
If you don't mind, please put the error message in "code" formatting (the button is marked "101010"). It's much easier to read that way. (might want to drop the ! as well)

Answer 1

as mentioned, trunk or development branches are not meant to be stable, but if you really want to try and run from gazebo trunk, try compiling against unstable of robot_model and see if that fixes at least part of your problem as stated? hopefully a lot of the new features you might be looking for will be in the latest unstable release simulator_gazebo-1.3.0.

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Originally posted by hsu with karma: 5780 on 2011-06-03

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Original comments

Comment by hsu on 2011-06-05:
what are you looking for in the trunk and also, can you try and overlay/compile gazebo trunk against ros-unstable-simulator-gazebo instead of ros-diamondback-desktop-full?

Comment by Kike on 2011-06-03:
ah ok, thanks! i tried the new robot_model, and it fixed the errors above! But others occur, so i will stay with the older version of gazebo for now and just exchange my needed files per hand.

Answer 2

The head of trunk is not necessarily compatible with anything other than the bleeding edge (other trunk heads).

If you want to use an svn copy of gazebo you should probably download the diamondback branch. That one will work with your diamondback install:

stacks/simulator_gazebo/tags/diamondback/

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Originally posted by Asomerville with karma: 2743 on 2011-06-03

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