A step by step installation of ROS Kinetic on macOS 10.13.4 High Sierra

ROS_Kinetic_macOS_High_Sierra.txt

# A step by step installation of ROS Kinetic on macOS 10.13.4 High Sierra
# Similar in spirit to https://gist.github.com/lubiluk/361a018b267ca4e3ce10cdc68b17363d but for Kinetic and High Sierra.
#
# Assumptions:
# You already installed:
# homebrew
# XCode 9.3 (or in case you want to build CUDA, use CUDA 9.1 with XCode 9.2)
# Remove any anaconda, conda or similar from your path
# You're not afraid of the command line and can deal with potentially incomplete instructions like this file
#
# This file is meant to be used together with http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/OSX/Homebrew/Source
# Follow the above instructions until you get stuck with a failing build.

# First install some dependencies up-front, avoids some trial and error restarting the build
brew install [email protected]
brew install jq cmake python  poco eigen qt qt5 sip tinyxml tinyxml2  webp libpng assimp qhull
brew install pyqt5 --with-python
brew install gtest lz4 log4cxx

# And maybe these?
brew install urdfdom console_bridge

pip install -U pip setuptools wstool rosdep rosinstall rosinstall_generator rospkg catkin-pkg Distribute sphinx empy

# Edit src/geometry2/tf2/src/buffer_core.cpp and remove/comment out all log-entries (not in include files)

# Assuming you're using a modern boost library, tr1 include files will be missing in src/rospack, replace usages of boost::tr1, see example at http://thispointer.com/c-11-unordered_set-basic-usage-example/ for the modern non-boost-tr1-wrapper approch.

# Then build ROS:
./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING=OFF

# Eventually I only got it to build 124 out of 191 packages, src/geometry2/tf2 failed, so your mileage may vary...
# Since the above is probably too much work and might still fail, try a Docker or Linux-based ROS instead :-)
# See http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Installation for alternatives when the above fails