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Create a catkin workspace

  • Make sure that catkin-tools is installed.

  • In a terminal run the following to create the my_workspace workspace and bring up linux terminals configured to the newly created workspace

    ros_session kinetic my_catkin_workspace -c

  • If a catkin workspace already exist then just run the following to bring up the terminals configured to that workspace:

    ros_session kinetic my_catkin_workspace

  • If another ros distribution is installed on the local machine such as groovy, then run:

     ros_session groovy my_catkin_workspace

List current catkin workspaces

  • In a terminal run the following command to list the current workspaces:
ros_session -l kinetic

The output should look like this:

ros catkin workspace: workspace_1
ros catkin workspace: workspace_2
	.
	.
	.

If using another ros distro then type that distro name instead

Workspace Context Commands

The following commands can be used within the context of a catkin workspace:

  • Source the workspace from any location

    catkin_ws_source

  • Create Eclipse Project

    create_eclipse_proj [pkg]

    This creates eclipse project files in the projects\pkg directory of the workspace. Then in the "Eclipse CDT" IDE you can import the project by selecting the "Existing Project Into Workspace" and then browsing to the projects directory and selecting your ROS package.

  • CD into several useful catkin workspace locations: The following ROS locations can be cd'ed with the roscd command:

    • src: Catkin workpace source directory
    • ws: Catkin workspace top level directory

    For instance:

    roscd ws

    Goes to the top level directory of your catkin workspace and

    roscd src

    Goes to the src directory of the catkin workspace