Availability of Binary Packages for Windows

[songyuc]

Hello,

I am working on a project using ROS 2 Iron on a Windows machine and am interested in using the urdf_tutorial package. I came across the Using URDF with Robot State Publisher tutorial which mentions "If you installed urdf_tutorial binaries, this should already be the case." I am wondering if there are binary packages available for Windows and if so, how I can install them.

If the binary packages are not available for Windows, could you please provide any guidance on how to compile and use urdf_tutorial on Windows?

Thank you for your time and assistance.

[DLu]

Apologies, I am not knowledgeable about that part of ROS 2. Perhaps @Yadunund or @clalancette has further insight.

[clalancette]

Currently, we only provide binary packages on Windows for anything listed in https://github.com/ros2/ros2/blob/rolling/ros2.repos . Since urdf_tutorials is not in there, there are no binary packages available for it at this time.

[songyuc]

Hello,

Would it be possible to consider providing binary packages for the urdf_tutorial package on Windows in the future? This would greatly facilitate development for those of us working in a Windows environment.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Best regards,
Yucheng Song

[clalancette]

Would it be possible to consider providing binary packages for the urdf_tutorial package on Windows in the future?

It is possible through the Robostack project: https://robostack.github.io/ . We have long-term plans to integrate more tightly with it, but we have no definitive timeline for that. In the meantime, you can see if RoboStack works for you.