Skip to main content

Questions tagged [genmsg]

The tag has no usage guidance.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
0 votes
1 answer
16 views

Cannot import custom rosmsg (actionlib)

Hi, I have very strange problem related to my custom action msg. I compiled my msg, but I can't import it. When I try to run my py action server I am getting next error: raceback (most recent call ...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
1 view

Which languages (and target names) does genmsg support?

The documentation for genmsg seems to indicate that generated targets follow language-name conventions. E.g. if you target foo depends on the C++ messages of your ...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
9 views

Dependency on actionlib when building .action files

Up to today's latest wiki page of actionlib lists actionlib as a required dependency with actionlib_msgs to build a package that ...
IsaacS's user avatar
  • 4,512
0 votes
1 answer
11 views

Cmake error when genmsg is added to the CMakeLists.txt during message creation

During the creation of a .msg file as mentioned in the ros tutorial, I have added genmsg package as well along with std_msgs [ in package.xml and also in CMakeLists.txt at find_package(...) ,...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
11 views

genmsg.base.InvalidMsgSpec: array is not a legal constant type

According to http://wiki.ros.org/msg, "With the exception of time and duration, you may declare any built-in type as a ...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
30 views

add_dependencies(*_generate_messages_cpp) needed when depending on own message package?

Hello, we've faced a really strange problem. We're moving message/service definitions into standalone packages, and we've faced this: virtual_camera_msgs/CMakeLists.txt: ...
Martin Pecka's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
3 views

Module fails dependency check in python script

When I attempt to install a module I just built into ROS, it fails to 'find' a required package because of an error in the associated check_deps.py file. The dependency it is trying to find is ...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
8 views

ImportError: cannot import name EXT_MSG

Hi,I am using ubuntu14.04+indigo I got an error when I run catkin_make ...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
1 view

gentoo: genmsg error at catkin compile

Currently, I'm following this tutorial to install ROS indigo. At compile I get the following complaint and I'm not really sure what to do or where to go from here. ...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
4 views

how to add message generator in ros buildform

Hi, I have updated our ros client message generation package (geneus : https://github.com/k-okada/jsk_roseus/tree/new_geneus/geneu)s, which depends on only python and genmsg. I'd like to ask add this ...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
8 views

how do I create packages that generate messages for all other packages

We're maintaining our custom made ros client library (http://wiki.ros.org/roseus). We'd like to create new package that holds all messages files that compiled into ...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
21 views

What is the difference between message_generation and genmsg?

Hello, I was following the tutorials and I have a question about the message generation. Once you generate a service with messages you need to modify the package.xml file: ...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
5 views

How to add another message generator for new ROS clients

I'm developing ruby ROS message generator genrb. I read http://docs.ros.org/api/genmsg/html/ and this package generates .rb message files if workspace contains msgs source package (like std_msgs). $ ...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
11 views

what is difference between message_generation and genmsg?

what is difference between message_generation and genmsg? [CreatingMsgAndSrv tutorial] find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS roscpp rospy std_msgs message_generation) [WritingPublisherSubscriber ...
user avatar
0 votes
3 answers
24 views

Trouble with Catkin: Compiling node and generating messages in same package

Hi Guys, I am currently catkinizing the ublox driver found here: https://github.com/tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/ublox The node "ublox_msgs" builds a library and generates a number of messages at ...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
3 views

ROS Tutorial clarification

Hi, I'm following the (catkin) tutorials to get started with ROS, and I run into the following. In CreatingMsgAndSrv tutorial it says I should add this to my CMakeLists.txt: ...
user avatar
0 votes
2 answers
3 views

Advantage of linking to genmsg in CMakeLists.txt / package.xml?

As of now (Nov 26 '12), rospy_tutorials/Tutorials/Makefile page states for package.xml: ...
IsaacS's user avatar
  • 4,512
0 votes
1 answer
2 views

genmsg dependency - em

I've installed genmsg package on my windows machine and is not able to run. template_tools.py in genmsg depends on module em, which I don't have. Could you please point me tot he place, where I can ...
user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
4 views

win-ros configure.bat - no module named genmsg

Hi, I followed the instructions from http://mirror.umd.edu/roswiki/win_ros(2f)Msvc(20)Build(20)Environment(202d20)Fuerte.html. All works fine but configure.bat returns: ...
user avatar