Tutorials: About the MRPT examples

Listed below are those examples for which explanations, screenshots or videos are available online; note however that MRPT includes many more ready-to-use examples.

Complete list of examples

If you downloaded a source package of MRPT, look at the samples/ directory.

They are also available online here: http://mrpt.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/

How to compile MRPT examples?

• Way 1: If you are compiling MRPT from sources, just turn on BUILD_EXAMPLES from CMake (as explained here). 

• Way 2: Create an empty directory and copy the CMakeLists.txt and test.cpp files of the example. Invoke CMake as usual indicating that directory as the SOURCE_DIR. This way provides you a good starting point to write your own programs (see this tutorial on getting started writing your own MRPT programs). This method requires MRPT to be compiled somewhere in your system (installing the libmrpt-dev Ubuntu package is also OK). If CMake can't find MRPT, set manually the CMake variable MRPT_DIR to the compilation directory.