oscr-deps - Third-party (external) software needed for the oscr library

OSCR-DEPS is a set of C++ packages composed of third-party libraries which are dependencies of the oscr (Operational Space Control for Robots) library. It is highly recommended to use this package for compatibility with OSCR. However, if this package is not used, the required libraries need to be separately installed and available in your system (special care should be taken when linking).

Note that these third-party libraries have been reduced to contain the minimum functionalities needed by the OSCR library. The reduction refers to the elimination of some files but not the modification of the source code. For more details on each library, please refer to the documentation provided by the original library source.

Before installing this package, you must ensure that you have the eigen3 and boost libraries available in your system. You must install them in case they are not available. For Ubuntu 16.04, this can be done using the command: sudo apt-get install libeigen3-dev libboost-all-dev.

The oscr-deps package can be then installed as:

./install-deps  your_prefix  SET_BASH

where your_prefix is the PATH where the third-party libraries will be installed ), and SET_BASH is an optional parameter that must be included only the very first time the instruction is run since it will add the pkg-config to the .bashrc. For example, the following command:

./install-deps  ~/devel/control/install  SET_BASH

will install the dependencies to ~/devel/control/install. When SET_BASH is omitted, nothing will be added to .bashrc. In the above example, when recompiling, the SET_BASH should be ommited.

Note: it might be useful to check the output of the installation to see if there has been any issue.

For information about every library used in this package and the modifications that were done, please refer to DIFFS.md.