[Hackrf-dev] Install GNURadio on Windows

[Josh Blum]

Update:

I updated the Pothos SDR installer to contain a full GNURadio and 
GrOsmoSDR install. Announcement here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pothos-users/zC2nHjJy5HU

Follow instructions for installing, python deps, GNURadio companion:
https://github.com/pothosware/PothosSDR/wiki/GNURadio

If anyone wants to volunteer a script for the python dependencies 
(downloading and install wheel files with pip). That would simplify 
post-install instructions a lot.

This effort took a lot of minor patches. Any help testing and 
up-streaming is appreciated. Less patches, more mainline...
https://github.com/pothosware/PothosSDR/tree/master/patches

Besides compile fixes, this patch should address avx2 detection in volk: 
https://github.com/pothosware/PothosSDR/blob/master/patches/volk_cpuid_count_for_msvc.diff 
But I don't have the hardware to confirm it. It would be awesome if 
anyone can get a data point for this.

And GNU Radio FIR filters segfault like crazy due to pointer truncation 
without this patch: 
https://github.com/pothosware/PothosSDR/blob/master/patches/gnuradio_fix_filter_truncation.diff

Enjoy the installer, please let us know if any problems come up: 
https://github.com/pothosware/PothosSDR/wiki/GNURadio#reporting-problems

Thanks,
-Josh

On 11/15/2015 10:05 PM, Josh Blum wrote:
>
>> 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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