.. _building_and_installing:

Building and Installing
=======================

First, create a colcon workspace (if you haven't already). The process is described
`in the official ROS 2 documentation <https://docs.ros.org/en/jazzy/Tutorials/Beginner-Client-Libraries/Colcon-Tutorial.html>`_.

We'll assume your workspace is in ``~/ros2_ws``.

Clone the ``robco_ros2`` repository to the workspace:

.. code-block:: bash

   cd ros2_ws/src
   git clone https://gitlab.com/robco-public/ros/robco_ros2
   cd ..

Next, use ``rosdep`` to install any dependencies:

.. code-block:: bash

   sudo apt update
   rosdep update
   rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src

Now, ``robco_ros2`` can be built:

.. code-block:: bash

   colcon build

To make use of the ``robco_ros2`` packages, don't forget to source the workspace install script:

.. code-block:: bash

   source ~/ros2_ws/install/setup.bash