MOOS¶
To build the MOOS middleware, you need to install MOOS and pymoos (MOOS Python bindings) on your system.
The instructions below install the new MOOS V10 release. Information on
installing previous versions of MOOS and pymoos can be found on their respective
homepages: MOOS homepage and pymoos homepage.
The pymoos bindings require at a minimum that the core MOOS packages be
installed. pymoos is curently written for the pre-V10 header structure and so
MOOS must be compiled with the ENABLE_V10_COMPATIBILITY flag set. To install the
core MOOS components to your home directory:
$ cd ~/
$ git clone https://github.com/themoos/core-moos.git
$ cd core-moos
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ../ -DENABLE_V10_COMPATIBILITY=ON
$ make
pymoos also requires the Boost Python library compiled for Python 3. The Boost versions shipped with newer versions of Ubuntu include both 2.7 and 3.2 versions of the Boost Python library and CMake will select the appropriate version.
For older versions of Ubuntu (or other OS’s), the latest version of the Boost source code can be downloaded from Boost. To install, extract the contents of the archive and run:
$ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=path/to/installation/prefix --with-python-version=3.2
$ ./b2 install
Finally pymoos can be installed by:
$ git clone git@github.com:davidhodo/pymoos.git
$ cd pymoos
$ mkdir build
$ cmake ../
$ make
$ sudo make install
The installation can be verified by running import pymoos.MOOSCommClient
from a Python3 interpreter.