[Hackrf-dev] Install GNURadio on Windows

Mon Nov 23 08:53:10 EST 2015

Thanks I will test this installer as soon as I come home

PS: How I can apply this 2 patches?
PPS: what is the best way to install OTA Projects like gr-drm, gr-baz and
gr-rds?

2015-11-23 6:51 GMT+01:00 Josh Blum <josh at joshknows.com>:

> 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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