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Hi,

I have built the ARGoS Simulator from source and I'm trying to compile the examples. However the CMakeLists.txt file for the examples is hard coded to point to: /usr/share/argos2/FindARGoS.cmake.

In order to get the example to build, I copied FindARGoS.cmake to my source directory which contains the build bash script build.sh

I have modified the find_path parameters as follows:
However when I try to build this using the command:
developer@developer-vbox:~/Desktop/Workspace/argos2-examples-build$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../argos2-examples/

I receive the following error:
I think this might be related to the layout of the directories and location of the shared libraries which are as follows:

Location of libraries after installing from .deb on Ubuntu
user@devmach:/usr/lib/argos2$ ls
libargos2_common_control_interface.so
libargos2_simulator_povray_renderer.so
libargos2_common_utility.so
libargos2_simulator_qtopengl_renderer.so
libargos2_libs_freeimage.so
libargos2_simulator_sensors.so
libargos2_simulator_actuators.so
libargos2_simulator.so
libargos2_simulator_dynamic_linking.so
libargos2_simulator.so.2.0
libargos2_simulator_factories.so
libargos2_simulator_space.so
libargos2_simulator_physics_engines_dynamics2d.so
libargos2_simulator_text_renderer.so
libargos2_simulator_physics_engines_kinematics2d.so
libargos2_simulator_visualizations.so
libargos2_simulator_physics_engines_pointmass3d.so
libchipmunk.so
libargos2_simulator_physics_engines.so

Layout of the shared libraries after a build (relative to the directory containing build.sh):
./common/simulator/utility/libargos2_common_utility.so
./common/simulator/control_interface/libargos2_common_control_interface.so
./simulator/actuators/libargos2_simulator_actuators.so
./simulator/sensors/libargos2_simulator_sensors.so
./simulator/libargos2_simulator.so
./simulator/visualizations/libargos2_simulator_visualizations.so
./simulator/visualizations/povray/libargos2_simulator_povray_renderer.so
./simulator/visualizations/text/libargos2_simulator_text_renderer.so
./simulator/factories/libargos2_simulator_factories.so
./simulator/physics_engines/dynamics2d/libargos2_simulator_physics_engines_dynamics2d.so
./simulator/physics_engines/dynamics2d/chipmunk-physics/libchipmunk.so
./simulator/physics_engines/pointmass3d/libargos2_simulator_physics_engines_pointmass3d.so
./simulator/physics_engines/libargos2_simulator_physics_engines.so
./simulator/physics_engines/kinematics2d/libargos2_simulator_physics_engines_kinematics2d.so
./simulator/dynamic_linking/libargos2_simulator_dynamic_linking.so
./simulator/space/libargos2_simulator_space.so
./simulator/libs/FreeImage/libargos2_libs_freeimage.so

Any thoughts?

I also modified the CMakeLists.txt in the examples directory to point to the location where my modified FindARGoS.cmake file was located.

It isn't necessary to modify the FindARGoS.cmake script. In my experience, the fastest way to get what you want is to modify the base CMakeLists.txt file of the examples.
Just substitute the line that says:
with the following three lines:
Then erase the build/ directory of the examples and repeat the steps to configure the build.

Wow that worked perfectly! Cheers!

I have some errors regarding TinyXML (‘ticpp’ does not name a type) but they should be trivial to resolve.

Thanks again!

The error you get about ticpp should be solved if you add the "add_definitions(...)" line above. Without that line, the C++ extensions of TinyXML are not compiled and you get the error about ticpp.

Resolved. The line above should read:

add_definitions(-DTIXML_USE_TICPP)
not
add_definitions(-DTIXML_USE_CPP)

You're right. I should copy-paste more often Thanks for spotting it!