colcon §

I should really understand how colcon works. Not should, HAVE TO.

How are you going to contribute to code at NVIDIA if you don’t even know how colcon works.

Resources

• https://design.ros2.org/articles/build_tool.html
• http://design.ros2.org/articles/ament.html

A good exercise for this is building ROS2 from source, and actually seeing what is happening under the hood. Brian Chen did this https://chenbrian.ca/posts/ros2_m1/#8-patch-python_cmake_module on his M1 Mac, so you should learn from him.

colcon test §

Learned from ashwin at NVIDIA.

colcon test --packages-select PACKAGE_NAME

Then, if there is an error, you can do

colcon test-result --verbose