Using robotpkg to build openrobots

Robotpkg is a set of build and packaging tools, inspired by pkgsrc, designed to build and install OpenRobots packages.

Getting robotpkg

• Decide in which directory you'll install OpenRobots. We'll assume ${HOME}/openrobots in this document.

  mkdir -p ${HOME}/openrobots

• clone the git repository for robotpkg to your work space:

  cd ${HOME}/openrobots
  mkdir src
  cd src
  git clone git://git.openrobots.org/git/robots/robotpkg

Bootstrapping

• edit your shell startup file :

  • add ${HOME}/openrobots/bin:${HOME}/openrobots/sbin to your PATH

  • add a definition of PKG_CONFIG_PATH with ${HOME}/openrobots/lib/pkgconfig as its value.

  • If you're using [t]csh this can be done by adding the following to ${HOME}/.login:

    # OpenRobots
    setenv PATH ${HOME}/openrobots/bin:${HOME}/openrobots/sbin:$PATH
    setenv PKG_CONFIG_PATH ${HOME}/openrobots/lib/pkgconfig

  • If you're using bash or ksh, add the following to ${HOME}/.profile:

    # OpenRobots
    export PATH=${HOME}/openrobots/bin:${HOME}/openrobots/sbin:$PATH
    export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${HOME}/openrobots/lib/pkgconfig

• Run the bootstrap script from ${HOME}/openrobots/src/robotpkg/bootstrap/

  cd ~/openrobots/src/robotpkg/bootstrap
  ./bootstrap --prefix=${HOME}/openrobots

Building modules

• Go to the sub-directory of robotpkg corresponding to the package you want and run make install. For instance

  cd ${HOME}/openrobots/src/robotpkg/hardware/platine-genom
  make install

  will install the platine module and all its dependencies (pocolibs, genom, hardlib, etc.)