If you use Linux or OS X, then all dependencies can be installed either through a package manager or by OMPL's build system. In other words, you probably don't have to compile dependencies from source.
To compile OMPL the following two packages are required:
- Boost (required version 1.40, recommended version 1.44 or higher) and
- CMake (required version 2.8.2 or higher).
To be able to generate python bindings you need to install the Python library and header files.
- Note
- If you are using ROS, please see the ROS interface to OMPL.
Installation on Linux
Below are installation instructions for Ubuntu Linux. Similar steps can be taken for other distributions, but package names may not be identical.
Ubuntu Linux
Installation from repository
For Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid), 11.10 (oneiric) and 12.04 (precise), Willow Garage maintains deb packages for the latest version of OMPL. All you need to do is add the repository to your list of sources:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu `lsb_release -sc` main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
wget http:
and install OMPL:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ros-fuerte-ompl
Installation from source
- If using Ubuntu 11.04 or earlier, the supplied Boost version is too old. Ubuntu 10.04 and newer do include Boost 1.40+, which is sufficient, but for the complete functionality of OMPL (Python bindings and boost::numeric::odeint), you will need Boost 1.44+. You can install Boost from source, but it is simpler to add another repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:boost-latest/ppa
- The default version of CMake should suffice. If needed, you can download the latest version from here.
- Install Boost and CMake
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev cmake
Some versions of Linux offer multiple versions of Boost. It is strongly advised to install only one version.
- To be able to generate documentation, generate Python bindings, build the ODE extension, the following packages are also needed:
sudo apt-get install doxygen graphviz python-dev libode-dev curl
- Create a build directory and run cmake:
cd ompl
mkdir -p build/Release
cd build/Release
cmake ../..
- If you want Python bindings, type the following two commands:
make installpyplusplus && cmake . # download & install Py++
make update_bindings
- Compile OMPL by typing
make
.
- Optionally, run the test programs by typing
make test
.
- Optionally, generate documentation by typing
make doc
.
- If you need to install the library, you can type
sudo make install
. The install location is specified by CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
. If you install in a non-standard location, you have to set the environment variable PYTHONPATH to the directory where the OMPL python module is installed (e.g., $HOME/lib/python2.7/site-packages).
Fedora Linux
- Thanks to Rich Mattes, OMPL core is available as a package for Fedora:
- Installation from source is also possible if dependencies listed above are installed.
Installation on Mac OS X
- It is easiest to install the dependencies through MacPorts, a package manager for OS X, so install MacPorts first.
- If you do not need to modify or see the source code of OMPL, then the easiest way to install OMPL is with the MacPorts
port
command: sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install boost +python27 \; install ompl +python27
This is it. You are done. Demo programs can be found in /opt/local/share/ompl
.
- If you downloaded the source distribution of OMPL, then you need to install the dependencies Boost, and CMake. Optionally, you can also install the Open Dynamics Engine, Py++, and the Python libraries and headers. If you have MacPorts installed, type the following:
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install boost +python27 \; install cmake ode py27-pyplusplus-devel
If you omit the +python27
part, Boost.Python will not be installed, and the Python bindings for OMPL cannot be compiled.
- It is very important that you use the same installed version of Python for all dependencies and OMPL.app. If you are using MacPorts, then you must use the MacPorts version of python 2.7 (most likely installed in
/opt/local/bin
). To make this version the default python version, make sure /opt/local/bin
appears before /usr/bin
in your PATH. You can add a line like this to your ${HOME}/.bash_profile
: export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
Next, execute the following command: sudo port select python python27
You can check if the MacPorts-installed python 2.7 is the default one by typing the following command:
- To be able to generate documentation, Doxygen is also needed:
sudo port install doxygen
- Create a build directory and run cmake:
cd ompl
mkdir -p build/Release
cd build/Release
cmake ../..
- If you want Python bindings, type the following command: If you do not have MacPorts installed, you need to precede this command by:
make installpyplusplus && cmake . # download & install Py++
- Compile OMPL by typing
make
.
- Optionally, run the test programs by typing
make test
.
- Optionally, generate documentation by typing
make doc
.
- If you need to install the library, you can type
sudo make install
. The install location is specified by CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
. If you install in a non-standard location, you have to set the environment variable PYTHONPATH to the directory where the OMPL python module is installed (e.g., $HOME/lib/python2.7/site-packages).
Installation on Windows
It is possible to run OMPL natively on Windows, although it must be stressed that extensive testing on Windows is not performed at this time, and running OMPL on Windows is considered experimental. For best performance, the MinGW compiler is recommended. Visual Studio can also be used to build the core OMPL library, but currently it is not possible to generate the python bindings for OMPL with this compiler. However, if the bindings are generated with MinGW, the bindings can be compiled by Visual Studio with some minor tweaks to the code (not recommended, unless you are an experienced Windows developer).
Required Dependencies
- MinGW (recommended) or Visual Studio compiler
- Boost: OMPL requires Boost, version 1.44 or greater. It is recommended to make a complete Boost compilation from source. If using Visual Studio, this process can be automated using the BoostPro installer. Once complete, set the environment variables
BOOST_ROOT
and BOOST_LIBRARYDIR
to the locations where Boost and its libraries are installed. The default locations are C:\Boost
and C:\Boost\lib
. Ensure that BOOST_LIBRARYDIR
is also in the system PATH so that any necessary Boost dlls are loaded properly at runtime.
Optional Dependencies (Python bindings)
- A 32-bit version of Python 2.7. Ensure that this is installed before building Boost so that Boost.Python is properly compiled.
- Ensure that Python is added to the system
PATH
.
- Py++: To generate the Python bindings, Py++ and its dependencies must be installed. A batch file has been included to automate this process (analogous to the Linux/Mac installation) that can be executed via cmake. Instructions can be found here. Note that this process assumes the MinGW compiler, and installs gccxml to
C:\gccxml
. You will need to be in a shell with administrator privileges to execute this batch file. Once installed, it is recommended that you open a new shell to realize the new environment settings.
Build
- Once the dependencies are installed, CMake can be used to generate MinGW makefiles or a Visual Studio solution by specifying a specific GENERATOR:
cd ompl
mkdir build
cd build
mkdir Release
cd Release
cmake -G "GENERATOR" ../.. [-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install]
The CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable is set to C:\Program Files (x86)\ompl
by default.
MinGW
- The CMake generator for MinGW is
"MinGW Makefiles"
- To generate the python bindings (optional), execute the update_bindings make command before compiling:
mingw32-make update_bindings
Note: update_bindings
is never run automatically. If you change any of the OMPL header files, you need to regenerate the bindings for the changes to be reflected in the Python modules. See also the more detailed documentation on generating python bindings.
- Use
mingw32-make
to build OMPL.
- If you wish to install OMPL, use the install command to copy the binaries, demo code, and other resources to the cmake install prefix. Note that you will need to be in a shell with administrator privileges to install to the default directory.
- Make sure to add the install path's \lib subdirectory to the PATH so that the DLLs are found when code is loaded.
Visual Studio
- The CMake generator for Visual Studio depends on the version of Visual Studio to generate a solution for. The generator for VS 2010 is
"Visual Studio 10"
, and the generator for VS 2008 is "Visual Studio 9 2008"
. Consult the CMake documentation for other generators.
- Open ompl.sln and build the solution. A static library will be created (ompl.lib) to link your code against, as well as several demo programs.
- You can install OMPL by building the "INSTALL" project inside of the solution. Note that this will attempt to copy files to
C:\Program Files (x86)\ompl
(the default). The installation will fail unless Visual Studio is opened with administrator privileges, or a non-system install prefix is specified when cmake is run.