Installation

Installation#

Navground, ROS2, and navground_ros support Linux, macOS and Windows.

Navground#

Follow the documentation to install navground. This plugin does only depends on the navground_core and navground_sim C++ shared libraries.

You can install navground from source or install pre-build binaries.

Once installed, will need to source the environment to find navground

$ . <navground_install>/setup.zsh

$ . <navground_install>install/setup.bash

$ <navground_install>install\setup.bat

where <navground_install> is the directory where you installed navground (e.g., /opt/navground/ on Linux and macOS and C:\Program Files\navground in Windows).

ROS2#

Follow the installation instructions to install a supported version of ROS2.

Navground-ROS#

Clone this repository in your colcon workspace and run

colcon build --merge-install --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release --packages-select navground_ros

Note

When installing from source, you are free to build navground in the same colcon workspace or in a separate location, provided you source the environment.