This branch is still under construction and is targeted for ROS 2 and/or ROS 1 M-Turtle.

Install ros2 (needed for ament at least and ros2's C++ api for the version of rviz in ros 2):

https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Installation

Currently the latest release (beta3) is not sufficient to build rviz so you need to build the ros2 master from source.

There will be a setup.bash file from your ros2 build you can source. The current state of this branch requires a from-source build though.

Install the following Ubuntu packages:

apt install libxaw7-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev qt5-default libyaml-cpp-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Source the setup file before continuing:

$ source path/to/ros2/install/setup.bash

Note Make sure to install all dependencies in either 32 bit or 64 bit version and do not mix.

This setup was tested for Windows 10 x64.

• Download CURL sources from GitHub
• Extract to local folder (e.g. to C:\ros2\curl-7.56.0)
• Create and change to build folder (e.g. C:\ros2\curl-7.56.0\build)
  • Configure CMake: cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ../
  • Build the project: cmake --build . --config Debug
  • Install to C:\Program Files: cmake --build . --config Debug --target Install

• Download Boost sources from https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.65.1/source/
• Extract to local folder (e.g. to C:\ros2\boost_1_65_1)

• Download yaml-cpp sources from GitHub
• Extract to local folder (e.g. to C:\ros2\yaml-cpp-release-0.5.3)
• Create and change to build folder (e.g. C:\ros2\yaml-cpp-release-0.5.3\build)
  • Configure CMake: cmake -G "cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ../ -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\ros2\boost_1_65_1
  • Build the project: cmake --build . --config Debug
  • Install to C:\Program Files: cmake --build . --config Debug --target Install

• add Qt binary files to PATH (e.g. C:\Qt\5.9.1\msvc2017_64\bin)
• set QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable (e.g. C:\Qt\5.9.1\msvc2017_64\plugins\platforms)
• Add Curl and yaml-cppto the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH environment variable
  • Example: C:\Program Files\CURL;C:\Program Files\YAML_CPP
• Add Curl binary to PATH (e.g. C:\Program Files\CURL\bin)
• Set BOOST_INCLUDEDIR environment variable to Boost include directory (e.g. C:\ros2\boost_1_65_1)
• Add patch.exe to PATH (e.g. from Git Bash, C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin)
• (For Testing) Add Cppcheck binary to PATH (e.g. C:\Program Files\Cppcheck)

Source the setup file before continuing:

$ call path/to/ros2/install/setup.bat

Create a new workspace:

$ mkdir -p ~/rviz2_ws/src
$ cd ~/rviz2_ws/src

Clone these repositories into the source folder:

$ git clone https://github.com/ros2/rviz.git
$ git clone https://github.com/ros/pluginlib.git -b ros2
$ git clone https://github.com/ros2/tinyxml2_vendor.git

Then build all the packages with this command:

$ ament build

Or specific packages with command, for example just rviz_ogre_vendor and then rviz_rendering:

$ ament build --only rviz_ogre_vendor
$ ament build --only rviz_rendering

More instructions and examples to come.