catkin generating lib packages instead of bin packages

Question

Hello all;

I am starting with ROS, groovy version. I have managed to compile some code in a package using catkin, but the executables generated are placed ~/catkin_ws/devel/lib/package_name.

In my CmakeLists.txt I have used "add_executable" and "target_link_libraries"

I think the executables should be in ~/catkin_ws/devel/bin/package_name., instead under lib directory.

Is this correct? Where could I have the error?

Thank you all in advance,

Best Regards,

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Originally posted by altella on ROS Answers with karma: 149 on 2013-05-15

Post score: 1

Answer 1

AFAIK this is correct and not an error at your side, although a bit ugly.

My guess is that this is used to not pollute the namespace in $PATH that adds bin/... and only run nodes via rosrun. A comment from the developers would be nice.

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Originally posted by dornhege with karma: 31395 on 2013-05-15

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by joq on 2013-05-15:
Not a developer, but I've been documenting catkin lately. Here's my current draft, which agrees with your answer: http://farnsworth.csres.utexas.edu/docs/catkin/html/howto/building_executables.html#installing

Comment by joq on 2013-05-15:
For an official answer, see REP-0122: http://ros.org/reps/rep-0122.html