Need Help with Driveworks SDK on Drive AGX Xavier Target System

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#1

Here’s the following info:
Hardware Platform: [DRIVE AGX Xavier™ Developer Kit]
Software Version: [Example: DRIVE Software 9]
Host Machine Version: [native Ubuntu 16.04]

Hello,

I am currently working on the Drive AGX Xavier and I checked that I have Driveworks SDK version 2.0.2081 installed on my target system however it seems I am missing some packages or files that were supposed to be included. Such as Renderer.h and GL.h for some camera C++ files. I was wondering if there was some way to manually add on these missing files or .h files using the documentation provided like here: https://docs.nvidia.com/drive/driveworks-3.0/Renderer_8h.html .

I also couldn’t find this directory: /root/apt-repos/binary-DWx, which is the directory to navigate for install of NVIDIA Driveworks on Linux Platform (https://docs.nvidia.com/drive/driveworks-3.0/dwx_installation_V5L.html).

If you could please provide help on how to get these missing references, installs, or files like Renderer.h and GL.h that would be great. I should also add that in my C++ files, Renderer.h has the include statement of <dw/renderer/Renderer.h> and Gl.h has the include statement of <dw/gl/GL.h>.

Please provide assistance if possible, thank you.

Sincerely,
Brendan Sting

#3

Hi @stin7931,

I don’t have DRIVE Software 9.0 on my host/target systems though but let me try to help you.

DriveWorks 2.0 SDK Reference isn’t easy to access online as 3.0 (the links in your post).
It is available at /usr/local/driveworks/doc/nvsdk_html/index.html (path for my DriveWorks 2.2) in your host system (with DRIVE Software installed) or you can download it from https://developer.nvidia.com/DRIVE/secure/docs/NVIDIA_DRIVE_SW_10_References.zip.

If you are looking for any files of DriveWorks, you can search them under /usr/local/driveworks/ and its subdirectories on your host system. Thanks!

#4

Hello @VickNV,

Thank you for the quick response and detailed download info. I would like to ask another question regarding Drive Software on Nvidia Drive AGX Xavier. My question is: do you recommend upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 OS along with Drive Software 10 on Drive AGX Xavier target system? Would I also have to upgrade my host-PC to 18.04 Ubuntu as well for this process? I also have to ask, going from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 along with Drive software 9 to 10, what would change internally in terms of files and programs within the AGX Xavier? Would there be more Drive Software tools?

I am just asking these questions to gauge if it is worth upgrading my target and host system to 18.04 Ubuntu and Drive 10 software. I also have some scripts that use ROS Kinetic so I am unsure if they are compatible with ROS Melodic when upgrading my AGX’s Ubuntu version.

Please get back to me with your recommendations and responses, thank you.

Cordially,
Brendan Sting

#5

Release notes are alwasy good starting point for considering a release.

You can check DRIVE Software 10.0 release notes below and other documents to understand the changes.
https://developer.nvidia.com/DRIVE/secure/docs/NVIDIA_DRIVE_Software_Release_Notes_10.0.pdf

Even the next release after 10.0 will stay at Ubuntu 18.04 on both host and target side so I would suggest you to move to Ubuntu 18.04 gradually. Thanks!