Catkin Simple

Catkin simple is a set of macros that can be used in normal catkin packages. The main idea is to simplify the CMakeLists of catkin packages in several ways:

• Dependencies are just listed once as build-depend in the package.xml, not also as run-depend etc.
• Dependencies do not need to be listed again in the CMakeLists.txt
• Explicit linking of dependencies is not needed anymore (e.g. no target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} ${catkin_LIBRARIES}) needed)
• Explicit inclusion of catkin include not needed anymore (e.g. no include_directories(${catkin_INCLUDES}) needed)
• Export and installation commands are both one-liners.

Example and Documentation

A very simple example project can be found here: https://github.com/simonlynen/catkin_and_catkin_simple

A description of catkin simple can be found here: https://github.com/catkin/catkin_simple/blob/master/README.md

Installation

We refer to your catkin_workspace as CATKIN_WS, which could e.g. be located under ~/catkin_ws:

cd $CATKIN_WS/src
git clone git@github.com:catkin/catkin_simple.git
cd $CATKIN_WS
catkin_make

Now you can use catkin_simple as shown in the documentation and example section above.