A makefile to install dependancies, build the catkin space and launc the simulator. Made for the Multi_UAV_simulator project by @malintha (https://github.com/malintha/multi_uav_simulator)

Makefile

# Author: Matteo Vidali (mvidali@iu.edu)
# Version: 0.3.0

SHELL := /bin/bash
LSB = $$(lsb_release -sc)
CMD = 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(LSB) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
UAV_REPO = 'https://github.com/matteovidali/multi_uav_simulator.git'

CATKIN_WS_NAME = '../catkin_ws'


ros_desktop_install:
	sudo apt install -y curl
	sudo sh -c $(CMD)
	curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.asc | sudo apt-key add -
	sudo apt update
	sudo apt install -y ros-noetic-desktop-full

deps:
# Armadillo
	sudo apt install -y liblapack-dev libblas-dev libboost-dev libarmadillo-dev
# Eigen
	sudo apt install -y libeigen3-dev
# ROS packages
	sudo apt install -y ros-noetic-eigen-conversions
# GSL
	sudo apt install -y libgsl-dev
# Catkin & wstool
	sudo apt install -y python3-pip python3-wstool python3-rosinstall-generator python3-catkin-tools 
	pip3 install osrf-pycommon
# Random Dependancies that caused failure
	sudo apt install -y libyaml-cpp-dev
    # This seems to be required -- tf2 vs tf?
	sudo apt install -y ros-noetic-tf ros-noetic-xacro ros-noetic-rviz

wstool-new:
	# Creating the directory
	mkdir $(CATKIN_WS_NAME)
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME); wstool init src
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME)/src; wstool set --git multi_uav_simulator $(UAV_REPO) -y
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME)/src; wstool update
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME)/src; wstool merge multi_uav_simulator/rosinstall/dependencies.rosinstall
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME)/src; wstool update

wstool-exists:
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME)/src; wstool set --git multi_uav_simulator $(UAV_REPO) -y
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME)/src; wstool update
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME)/src; wstool merge multi_uav_simulator/rosinstall/dependencies.rosinstall
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME)/src; wstool update

build:
	source /opt/ros/noetic/setup.bash
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME); catkin config --extend /opt/ros/noetic
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME); catkin build simulator_utils
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME); catkin build

launch:
	source /opt/ros/noetic/setup.bash
	source $(CATKIN_WS_NAME)/devel/setup.sh
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME); roslaunch multi_uav_simulator simu.launch

clean:
	cd $(CATKIN_WS_NAME); rm -rf devel logs build

To use this file, first run make deps which will install all the dependencies that I found to be needed. Then run make build which will build the catkin_ws and do all of the building necessary. Finally, run make launch to launch the simulator