[Hackrf-dev] Install GNURadio on Windows

[Josh Blum]

> I downloaded and extracted the latest version of the PothosSDR
> binaries from http://downloads.myriadrf.org/builds/PothosSDR/
>
> Looking through the extracted files, I found hackrf.dll and the HackRF
> tool executables in "PothosSDR-2015.10.05-vc12-x64/$_OUTDIR/bin".  Do
> those tools work for you?
>
> The same directory also contains a copy of osmosdr.dll and what
> appears to be most of GNU Radio.  So you probably have almost
> everything you need already built.
>

Dominic,

So the hackrf.dll should be fine to use. But I don't think there is a 
osmosdr.dll. You probably saw SoapyOsmoSDR.dll from the SoapyOsmo 
project. But, I would be careful about copying dlls because there may be 
a mismatch in the version of GR or MSVC build version that would cause 
an ABI incompatibility. Also, I was building with GR 3.7.1 (and yes I do 
need to update that).

The PothosSDR environment is primarily using GNU Radio for the blocks. I 
actually disabled the swig build because it added time (and like 50Mb to 
the installer). But it wouldn't be difficult to build and include the 
complete GNU Radio + GrOsmoSDR as well. That would narrow down the post 
install tasks to setting the PYTHONPATH and installing some python 
dependencies for GRC.

So I'm not quite sure what Chocolatey's installer was missing, but I do 
try to package most SDR drivers that I can get my hands on. So if there 
is any interest, or someone would like a particular package, drop a note 
in the PothosSDR issue tracker, I think that would be easiest for me: 
https://github.com/pothosware/PothosSDR/wiki

There's always a bit of patching and iterating, so it will take me some 
time to update things.

Thanks,
-josh

> Dominic
>
>> 2015-11-15 19:00 GMT+01:00 Mitja kocjančič <veso266 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> you are right I gave up too because its just too many errors I know that
>>> Pothos has OsmoSDR binaries and hackRF libraries when you install windows
>>> binaries (maybe I could just copy everything from there to the right
>>> directorys (which I don't know where in GNU Radio installation directory
>>> they are)
>>>
>>> Hope someone can help with this
>>>
>>> 2015-11-15 18:28 GMT+01:00 Chuck McManis <chuck.mcmanis at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> For what its worth, I started down this road briefly and then gave up
>>>> and installed the free VMWare player on my windows machine, and inside
>>>> that ran ubuntu and brought up the tools that way. Not sure what that
>>>> says about the Windows development environment but it got me up and
>>>> running more quickly.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Dominic Spill <dominicgs at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 14 November 2015 at 19:59, Mitja kocjančič <veso266 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi to all I am trying to install GNU Radio on Windows with osmocom
>>>>>> source
>>>>>> and sink and HackRF Support So I've tried installing it via this
>>>>>> method:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/WindowsInstall#Chocolatey
>>>>>> (after installing lxml and Cheetah manualy) I finaly fired GNU Radio
>>>>>> but (as
>>>>>> I thougt) it was missing SDR Source and Sink (only UHD stuff were
>>>>>> there
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like the GNU Radio install from chocolatey uses the binaries
>>>>> published by the GNU Radio project [1].
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any way I can manualy add osmocom source and sink into GNU
>>>>>> Radio on
>>>>>> windows?
>>>>>
>>>>> You will need to build the HackRF library and tools on your Windows
>>>>> system.  You will need libusb [2] and cmake [3], both of which are
>>>>> available for Windows, and a compiler such as MinGW.  Instructions for
>>>>> building HackRF with MinGW are available [4], or for MSVC[5] which
>>>>> should help with building the HackRF and osmocom tools[6].
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://files.ettus.com/binaries/gnuradio/gnuradio_v3.7.3/
>>>>> [2]
>>>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb/files/libusb-1.0/libusb-1.0.20/libusb-1.0.20.7z/download
>>>>> [3] https://cmake.org/download/
>>>>> [4]
>>>>> https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/MingwInstallMain
>>>>> [5]
>>>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2013-08/msg00284.html
>>>>> [6] http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/GrOsmoSDR
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