colcon

The colcon command is used to interact with the build system of our ROS packages. This needs to be executed at the root of the workspace (highest level), and will produce the following items after building:

• A build directory to store temporary files needed for creating output files

• An install directory to store the final output files

• A log directory to store logging information from the build process

Usage

colcon [task] [args]

Tasks:

build

Build the current workspace. This produces the directories listed above, and needs to be run before attempting to run tests!

test

Run tests in the current workspace.

Optional Arguments:

–symlink-install

The –symlink-install command can be used to speed up installation by linking changes directly from source to install files