roscompile is a tool that examines ROS (Catkin) packages, analyzes the files within, fixes common errors and tweaks the style. To run, simply navigate to a folder containing the packages you'd like to tweak, and type rosrun roscompile roscompile

• Checks for dependencies by looking in the source code and launch files.
• Inserts build and run dependencies into your package.xml
• Inserts dependencies into your CMakeLists.txt
• Sorts lists of dependencies (in both package.xml/CMakeLists.txt)

• Automatically looks for msg/srv/action/dynamic_reconfigure definitions and ensures they are properly documented in the CMakeLists.txt
• Enforces the ordering of the commands

• Removes auto-generated comments from your CMakeLists.txt and package.xml

• If you have python code, will automatically generate setup.py for you.

• If you use pluginlib, will search your code for PLUGINLIB_EXPORT_CLASS macros, and update your plugin xml accordingly.

• Reads the <author> and <maintainer> tags
• Allows you to specify a canonical name and email address to replace all variants on your name
• 'dlu', 'Dave Lu', 'David Lu'', 'dlu@TODO' can all become 'David V. Lu!!'

• Each of these features can be disabled by changing the ~/.ros/roscompile.yaml file, which is written after your first usage.