An extension for colcon-core to support Gnu Autotools projects.
For all packages with configure.ac
and package.xml
files:
colcon build
will callautoreconf -i
,./configure
, andmake install
pip install -U colcon-ros-autotools
Follow the instructions at https://colcon.readthedocs.io/en/released/developer/bootstrap.html, except in "Fetch the sources" add the following to colcon.repos
:
colcon-ros-autotools:
type: git
url: https://github.com/colcon/colcon-ros-autotools.git
version: main
After that, run the local_setup
file, build any colcon workspace with autotools projects in it, and report any issues!