For info about the backward-cpp project check https://github.com/bombela/backward-cpp
This wrapper should make it very easy to integrate backward_cpp into your ROS packages.
There's a foxy-devel branch and it has been released to the most recent ROS2 versions
Add backward_ros to your package.xml <depend>backward_ros</depend>
Add backward_ros to your CMakeLists.txt find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS your_dependencies backward_ros)
To get line numbers and more details, you need to build with debug information enabled (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE = Debug or RelWithDebInfo)
You're done, it should automatically add a library to your executables, when they crash, they should print a nice stacktrace like this:
