Instructions for running the simulations on binary installation of robotology-superbuild on Windows

[divyashah]

Since, I don't have much software background, I installed robotology-superbuild from binaries as instructed in conda-forge-based-robotology-superbuild-installation on my Windows laptop.

I would like to try and run these ergocub-gazebo simulation experiments on this system. But I think the installation instructions in the README.md do not work with such binary installation.

Could you please help me with the same??

Thanks!

@GrmanRodriguez @AlexAntn @Nicogene
cc @traversaro

[traversaro]

As I suspected, it is indeed quite easy to run at least basic simulations with gazebo-yarp-plugins installed via binaries, see:

Some fixes may be necessary (see #30) but I can modify the README to clarify how to install it in the case of robotology packages installed via binaries.

[Nicogene]

@traversaro added some nice info in #31, @divyashah it is what you needed?
There is a specific experiment you want to try in your setup?

[divyashah]

@traversaro added some nice info in #31, @divyashah it is what you needed?

Thanks! @traversaro, @Nicogene
Yes, I was now able to follow these instructions in installation using dependencies compiled from binary and install the repo.

I can add the stickbot now in gazebo:

There is a specific experiment you want to try in your setup?

I would like to replicate the experiments that you'll have already added in the repo like the hold_box or gym_session and maybe modify the stickbot dimensions.

However, I am still not able to run these experiments as per the instructions currently in the README. For example, for the ./hold_box.sh I get the following error:

[traversaro]

I would like to replicate the experiments that you'll have already added in the repo like the hold_box or gym_session and maybe modify the stickbot dimensions.

However, I am still not able to run these experiments as per the instructions currently in the README. For example, for the ./hold_box.sh I get the following error:

First of all, I noticed that we were lacking a dependency in the docs, this is fixed by: #32 . In your case, it should be sufficient to just run mamba install -c conda-forge -c robotology whole-body-estimators after enabling your environment.

Unfortunatly, bash files are extremely Unix-specific, so to run them on Windows you need to run them as following:

cd C:\Users\dshah\icub_tech_repos\ergocub-gazebo-simulations\experiments\hold_box
"C:\Program Files\Git\git-bash.exe" ./hold_box.sh

Furthermore, the bash script itself will require some fixes to run on Windows, provided in: #33 .

In theory you could just open a Git Bash terminal and call mamba activate ergocubsim as you do with Command Prompt, but this is not working due to: robotology/robotology-superbuild#1061 .