Installation on Linux, macOS or Windows with conda

These instructions for installing yarp on any Linux distributions, macOS or Windows, if you are using the conda package manager.

Install from binaries

To create a new environment called yarpenv with the yarp C++ library, tools and Python bindings, run:

conda create -n yarpenv -c conda-forge yarp

If you are experiencing problems with conda-forge binaries of yarp, please open an issue at conda-forge/yarp-feedstock GitHub repo.

You are now ready to check you installation, see Check your installation.

Install from sources

Required Dependencies

To create an environment called yarpsrcdev in which to compile yarp from source, run the following command

conda create -n yarpsrcdev -c conda-forge cmake compilers pkg-config make ninja ycm-cmake-modules ace tinyxml eigen sdl sqlite libjpeg-turbo robot-testing-framework libpng libzlib soxr libopencv portaudio qt-main ffmpeg

Compiling YARP

To get the source you can download the latest release at https://github.com/robotology/yarp/releases/ or clone YARP git repository from one of the following addresses:

(git read-only) git://github.com/robotology/yarp.git
(ssh read+write) git@g.nosp@m.ithu.nosp@m.b.com:robotology/yarp.git
(https read+write) https://github.com/robotology/yarp.git

For example:

git clone https://github.com/robotology/yarp.git

By default the master (development) branch is cloned, if you need a stable branches they are named yarp-<version>. For example

git clone -b yarp-3.3 https://github.com/robotology/yarp.git

Generate Ninja build files using CMake in the environment you created before, and specify that you want to install yarp in the same environment, by executing the following commands on Linux or macOS:

conda activate yarpsrcdev
cd yarp
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$CONDA_PREFIX ..

or on Windows:

conda activate yarpsrcdev
cd yarp
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=%CONDA_PREFIX% ..

Usually you want to check in the CMake output that "Compile GUIs" and "Compile YARP_math library" are enabled, if they are not, you are probably missing some dependency.

Compile:

ninja

ninja install