Failing to compile on Humble - cannot find serial

[jakobbak]

Hello

Hope it is ok asking through an issue here.
I am interested in using this package, but trying to compile the source in a workspace fails with the classic

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "serial" with any
  of the following names:

    serialConfig.cmake
    serial-config.cmake

I tried running $ rosdep install --from-paths src -y --ignore-src but get a response:

$ rosdep install --from-paths src -y --ignore-src
ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved
to system dependencies:
robotiq_description: Cannot locate rosdep definition for [serial]
robotiq_driver: Cannot locate rosdep definition for [serial]

I tried installing both ros-humble-serial-driver and libserial-dev, but neither of them seems to provide the requested serialConfig.cmake file.

May I ask you to point me in the right direction of what package you are using and how to get hold of it?

[jakobbak]

Immediately after posting this I did the obvious and searched for serial within the Picknik repositories and found https://github.com/PickNikRobotics/serial-release.
May I ask then, if it is indeed one of the various forks of William Woodall and John Harrison's serial library?
Perhaps https://github.com/PickNikRobotics/serial-release/tree/release/humble/serial?

[danzimmerman]

I'm working with Robostack, where the ros-humble-serial release isn't available.

I've found that https://github.com/RFRIEDM-Trimble/serial-ros2 builds with colcon and works with this repo.

[sea-bass]

In our repos, we are using the ros2 branch of https://github.com/tylerjw/serial/tree/ros2, and building it from source in the same workspace as ros2_robotiq_gripper.

[moriarty]

closing see #21