More advanced user can also generate the files from the protobuf definition. In order to do this the go packages proto-gen-go and proto-gen-gorpc are required. This is already installed in the docker file available in tools/Dockerfile.
Build this dockerfile using
docker build . -t mavsdkRun the image using the following command with the volume with MAVSDK-GO mounted in the docker.
bash run_docker.bashThen run the script generate_from_protos.bash to generate the plugins. The script is more or less self explanatory.
Now the proto-gen-mavsdk can be used to generate the MAVSDK language related files using the jinja2 templates. In order to generate the plugin classes run the following command from the root of the MAVSDK-Go
export TEMPLATE_PATH="$(pwd)/templates/"
protoc --plugin=protoc-gen-custom=$(which protoc-gen-mavsdk) -I./proto/protos/action --custom_out=. --custom_opt=file-ext=go ./proto/protos/action/action.proto
If you are using an ARM 64bit device to build the image you might experience the error listed below:
qemu-x86_64: Could not open '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No such file or directory
If this happens use the below command that specifies the platform to use for the build:
docker build . -t mavsdk --platform linux/x86_64
There was a problem generating the plugins in docker. If you get similar problems, please generate the plugins on a normal machine (ubuntu)