This repository was created to share my experience using ROS on an M1 base MacBook. Feel free to make suggestions and pull requests as you see fit.
I am using a M1 Pro machine so this documentations has been tested on that.
Guides:
- Installing ROS Foxy/Galatic
- Installing ROS packages from index.ros.org
- Installing PCL for ROS
- Using docker
- Using ROS nodes in docker containers - Using docker containers helps a lot to make the code easely deployable and manageable on the target machine. The problem is that docker on MacOS runs the linux kernal on a VM making it not possible to have the
network=hostsetting. To use Rviz and other tools some adaptations are needed - Docker to make a Development environment - with vscode and all the dependencies
- Using ROS nodes in docker containers - Using docker containers helps a lot to make the code easely deployable and manageable on the target machine. The problem is that docker on MacOS runs the linux kernal on a VM making it not possible to have the
- MacOS connected to virtual machine
If you want to develop ROS based code on your personal M1 Mac you have 3 option:
- Install ROS on macos - See the guide here
- Docker dev env - See guide here
- Virtual Machine