SlamTec RPLidar A1 Knowledge Base

The SlamTec RPLidar A1 needs a driver which can be downloaded from: https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers

Creating the static Library in Eclipse

Choose New C++ project as project typ choose static library. Disable debug configuration press advance configurations. In both Cros GCC and G++ compiler make the following changes.
Under preprocessor add:

_MACOS
_NDEBUG
NDEBUG

Under includes add:

${workspace_loc:/${ProjName}/include}
${workspace_loc:/${ProjName}/src}

Under optimization choose:

Optimize more (-O2)

Under Miscellaneous select:

Verbose (-v)
Position Independent Code (-fPIC)

Under other flags have:

-c -funsigned-char

The all option field for Cross GCC and G++ compiler should look similair like this:

-D_MACOS -D_NDEBUG -DNDEBUG -I"/Users/jacob/Dropbox/_9RPLidar/crossLidar/rplidar_sdk-v1.10.0/include" -I"/Users/jacob/Dropbox/_9RPLidar/crossLidar/rplidar_sdk-v1.10.0/src" -O2 -Wall -c -funsigned-char -v -fPIC

For Cross GCC Assembler also add the includes under general.

${workspace_loc:/${ProjName}/include}
${workspace_loc:/${ProjName}/src}

The all option field for Cross GCC Assembler:

-I"/Users/jacob/Dropbox/_9RPLidar/crossLidar/rplidar_sdk-v1.10.0/include" -I"/Users/jacob/Dropbox/_9RPLidar/crossLidar/rplidar_sdk-v1.10.0/src"

When create import the include and source directory. Using file system Then remove the not used architecture directories, i.e. on a Mac remove win32 and linux

Creating new program in Eclipse

Use the above settings.
Add in Cross G++ Linker under Libraries, in the libraries (-l) sections

rplidar_sdk

In the Library search path (-L)

${workspace_loc:/rplidar_sdk/Release}