3cd1253977
Years update, references to WIND_BASE were removed, and WPILib license was moved to the root directory of the project. If there was already a comment block, a year range through 2016 was created using the first year in the comment. If there was no comment block, a block with just the year 2016 was added. Comments were not added to files from external sources (NI, CTRE). Change-Id: Iff4f098ab908b90b8d929902dea903de2f596acc
Components and Location
Simluation is a mix of wpilib and other components. The wpilib components are in their respective locations in the /wpilibc and /wpilibj directories.
The gazbeo plugins are currently built with CMake. Eventually they will be built with gradle.
Simulation delivery and installation
For 2016 FRCSim is only officially supported on Ubuntu 14.04 or greater. However it is possible on any platform that runs Gazebo. FRCSim is currently delivered via a zip file published by this project, and is available at first.wpi.edu/FRC/roborio/maven/PROMOTION_STATUS/edu/wpi/first/wpilib/simulation/simulation/1.0.0/simulation-1.0.0.zip where PROMOTION_STATUS is one of:
- development (the latest commit merged into wpilib)
- beta (used periodically before release)
- release (used just before kick-off and possibly a few other times)
- stable (used for old releases we want to keep around)
The zip contains most of the contents of ~/wpilib/simulation, such as C++ libraries, jars, and scripts
The exmple robot model files are seperate, and can be found under "file releases" on collabnet.
All together you need eclipse, gazebo, those two zips, g++ 4.9, java8, and a few other small packages. See the frcsim-installer script or the screensteps on manual install for all the nitty-gritty details
The frcsim-installer script is meant for quick and painless setup on Ubuntu 14.04, 15.04, or 15.10 A manual install is a more tedious process, so this is an easy option for students.
Building
See the top level README.md.