Catkin

ROS build tool. These are the patterns of use:

In order to help automate the merged build process, Catkin was distributed with a command-line tool called catkin_make. This command automated the above CMake work flow while setting some variables according to standard conventions. These defaults would result in the execution of the following commands:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ../src -DCATKIN_DEVEL_SPACE=../devel -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../install
$ make -j<number of cores> -l<number of cores> [optional target, e.g. install]

To get DSO (Direct Sparse Odometry) working.

I followed these instructions: https://github.com/JakobEngel/dso_ros/issues/32

I made /opt/catkin_ws

git clone –single-branch –branch cmake https://github.com/NikolausDemmel/dso.git
git clone –single-branch –branch catkin https://github.com/NikolausDemmel/dso_ros.git

catkin init

catkin config -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

catkin build