RTT ROS2 Create Package

This package is meant to provide the functionality of creating an orocos package ready to be compiled with the colcon-ROS2 build system.

usage

The only command that can be invoked is orocreate-colcon-pkg.

the basic use is

ros2 run rtt_ros2_pkg orocreate-colcon-pkg pkg_name

Please refer to the help for more info

ros2 run rtt_ros2_pkg orocreate-colcon-pkg --help

To generate a package named test_pkg with a sample compenent and the minimal deployment files, in a src folder, it suffices to execute the following in the root of a colcon workspace

ros2 run rtt_ros2_pkg orocreate-colcon-pkg --create deploy component  -d  src test_pkg
colcon build--symlink-install
source install/local_setup.bash

To deploy, the lua file can be invoked direclty (and interactive shell being available)

rttlua -i `ros2 pkg prefix test_pkg`/share/test_pkg/scripts/deploy.lua

OR via the generated launch file

ros2 launch test_pkg example.launch.py