Prerequisites¶

Dependencies¶

• Boost >= 1.38 (for hardy available in the gar-installer, 1.34.1 untested)
• Boost.UUID (header-only, officially included in Boost since 1.42, headers from this version can be used with all older versions of boost, gar-installer package available [ignore this if you don't know what the gar-installer is])
• CMake (tested with 2.8)
• optional:
  • Doxygen for API generation
  • Lcov for code coverage analysis
  • cppcheck for static code analysis

cmake libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-signals-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-regex-dev

Supported Operating Systems and Compilers¶

• Linux (GCC 4.x)
• Windows (MS Visual Studio 9 2008)

Installation¶

• SVN URL: https://code.cor-lab.org/svn/rsc/trunk/rsc
• Build command:
  

  cd rsc/build && cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$prefix && make && make install
  

Other combination may be possible but are currently untested.

Contents¶

A brief summary of the library contents. More detailed information can be found in the source code documentation.

• Logging Adapter - Logging interface with support for different backends
• Math - Various base data structures and methods for common mathematical calculation in robotics
• Miscellaneous - Various small helpers and utilities that do not fit in any other category
• Subprocess - A python-inspired, platform-independent way to launch other processes
• Threading - Different helpers for managing threaded applications, includes a task abstraction, synchronized data structures and thread pools
• Runtime - Augmentation of the C++ runtime towards interactive and less strict handling of data and types
• Patterns - Implementations of some frequently used design patterns
• CMake Support Library - A collection of modules for using CMake, including find-modules for different 3rd-party libraries and applications