use_colcon

Colcon

Description

See in this wiki and in the official docuementation

How to?

In order to build you workspace using colcon you need to go to your workspace root and perform:

colcon build

See colcon build -h for how to build just a package selection.

To build and run the unit-tests:

colcon test 

with verbose output:

colcon test --event-handlers console_direct+

for selected package(s):

colcon test --packages-select package_name --event-handlers console_direct+

Visualize the dependency of your workspace

colcon graph --dot --legend | dot -Tpdf -o /tmp/dependencies_graph.pdf
firefox /tmp/dependencies_graph.pdf

colcon-cd and colcon-argcomplete

In order to activate the colcon-cd and colcon completion functionnalities you need to add these lines in you bashrc:

# colcon
source /usr/share/colcon_argcomplete/hook/colcon-argcomplete.bash
source /usr/share/colcon_cd/function/colcon_cd.sh