Compilation fails under Melodic

[chrisspen]

I'm trying to install it under ROS Melodic and Ubuntu 18.04 but the rosmake lsd_slam command is failing with the error:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/opt/ros/melodic/share/dynamic_reconfigure/cmake/gendeps", line 66, in <module>
      imp.load_module("__main__", f, srcfile, ('.cfg', 'U', 1))
    File "~/git/slam_test/test_lsdslam/catkin_ws/src/lsd_slam/lsd_slam_viewer/cfg/LSDSLAMViewerParams.cfg", line 20, in <module>
      gen.add("scaledDepthVarTH", double_t, 0, "log10 of threshold on point's variance, in the respective keyframe's scale. ", -3, -10, 1)
    File "/opt/ros/melodic/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dynamic_reconfigure/parameter_generator.py", line 274, in add
      self.group.add(name, paramtype, level, description, default, min, max, edit_method)
    File "/opt/ros/melodic/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dynamic_reconfigure/parameter_generator.py", line 145, in add
      check_description(description)
    File "/opt/ros/melodic/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dynamic_reconfigure/parameter_generator.py", line 69, in check_description
      raise Exception(r"""quotes not allowed in description string `%s`""" % description)
  Exception: quotes not allowed in description string `log10 of threshold on point's variance, in the respective keyframe's scale. `
  
  CMake Error at /opt/ros/melodic/share/dynamic_reconfigure/cmake/cfgbuild.cmake:78 (string):
    string sub-command REPLACE requires at least four arguments.
  Call Stack (most recent call first):
    /opt/ros/melodic/share/dynamic_reconfigure/cmake/cfgbuild.cmake:99 (gencfg_cpp)
    CMakeLists.txt:29 (include)
  
  
  -- [rosbuild] Found SSE3 extensions, using flags: -msse3 -mfpmath=sse
  -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
  See also "~/git/slam_test/test_lsdslam/catkin_ws/src/lsd_slam/lsd_slam_viewer/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
  See also "~/git/slam_test/test_lsdslam/catkin_ws/src/lsd_slam/lsd_slam_viewer/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
  /opt/ros/melodic/share/mk/cmake.mk:7: recipe for target 'all' failed

Is the package supported on Ubuntu 18.04 and Melodic? If so, how do I fix this error?

[thuliangjz]

as it said just delete those single quote, i.e. ' in

1. lsd_slam_viewer/cfg/LSDSLAMViewerParams.cfg
2. lsd_slam_core/cfg/LSDDebugParams.cfg

some other issues you might come across are posted on this blogthough I still have problems unsolved yet

[mirellameelo]

@chrisspen @thuliangjz Did you succeed compilation on Melodic?

[thuliangjz]

@mirellameelo I managed to compiled the project with this fork https://github.com/kevin-george/lsd_slam, the oringinal one seems to be not maintained for some time.