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* docs: remove obsolete note about transport drivers

Signed-off-by: Max SCHMELLER <[email protected]>

* docs: remove recommendation to clone into `src` directory

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* chore: update link to about page

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* chore: add cmake ignore to meta package

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Signed-off-by: Max SCHMELLER <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Wong <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: David Wong <[email protected]>
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18 changes: 6 additions & 12 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Nebula works with ROS 2 and is the recommended sensor driver for the [Autoware](
We recommend you get started with the [Nebula Documention](https://tier4.github.io/nebula/).
Here you will find information about the background of the project, how to install and use with ROS 2, and also how to add new sensors to the Nebula driver.

- [About Nebula](https://tier4.github.io/nebula/about)
- [About Nebula](https://tier4.github.io/nebula)
- [Design](https://tier4.github.io/nebula/design)
- [Supported Sensors](https://tier4.github.io/nebula/supported_sensors)
- [Installation](https://tier4.github.io/nebula/installation)
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> **Note**
>
> Boost version 1.74.0 or later is required. A manual install may be required in Ubuntu versions earlier than 22.04.
>
> **Note**
>
> A [TCP enabled version of ROS' Transport Driver](https://github.com/mojomex/transport_drivers/tree/mutable-buffer-in-udp-callback) is required to use Nebula.
> It is installed automatically into your workspace using the below commands. However, if you already have ROS transport driver binaries installed, you will have to uninstall them to avoid conflicts (replace `humble` with your ROS distribution):
> `sudo apt remove ros-humble-udp-driver ros-humble-io-context`
To build Nebula run the following commands in your workspace:

```bash
# In workspace
mkdir src
git clone https://github.com/tier4/nebula.git src
git clone https://github.com/tier4/nebula.git
cd nebula
# Import dependencies
vcs import src < src/build_depends.repos
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -y -r
vcs import < build_depends.repos
rosdep install --from-paths . --ignore-src -y -r
# Build Nebula
colcon build --symlink-install --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
colcon build --symlink-install --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=1
```

To launch Nebula as a ROS 2 node with default parameters for your sensor model:
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Expand Up @@ -10,24 +10,18 @@ Please see the [ROS 2 documentation](https://docs.ros.org/en/humble/index.html)
> **Note**
>
> Boost version 1.74.0 or later is required. A manual install may be required in Ubuntu versions earlier than 22.04.
>
> **Note**
>
> A [TCP enabled version of ROS' Transport Driver](https://github.com/mojomex/transport_drivers/tree/mutable-buffer-in-udp-callback) is required to use Nebula.
> It is installed automatically into your workspace using the below commands. However, if you already have ROS transport driver binaries installed, you will have to uninstall them to avoid conflicts (replace `humble` with your ROS distribution):
> `sudo apt remove ros-humble-udp-driver ros-humble-io-context`
To build Nebula run the following commands in your workspace:

```bash
# In workspace
mkdir src
git clone https://github.com/tier4/nebula.git src
git clone https://github.com/tier4/nebula.git
cd nebula
# Import dependencies
vcs import src < src/build_depends.repos
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -y -r
vcs import < build_depends.repos
rosdep install --from-paths . --ignore-src -y -r
# Build Nebula
colcon build --symlink-install --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
colcon build --symlink-install --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=1
```

## Testing your build
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cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14)
project(nebula_sensor_driver)
set(ignoreMe "${CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS}")

find_package(ament_cmake REQUIRED)
ament_package()

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