Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unable to build GNU Radio on Mac OS X 10.6.4 for USRP2

[Elvis Dowson]

Hi Josh,

On Jul 13, 2010, at 7:14 AM, Josh Blum wrote:

> Dont blow up on me like the last guy... but the usrp2 gnuradio driver uses a 
> linux kernel-specific packet ring and will only build on linux. Hence the 
> error message that you saw.

I run Fedora 12 x86 64-bit on a VMware image on Mac OS X anyway, so I'll switch 
over to Linux. 

> However, the UHD uses userspace udp sockets and will build on macos and 
> windows as well. You may want to try: 
> http://ettus-apps.sourcerepo.com/redmine/ettus/projects/uhd/wiki

What's the benefit of using UHD, at the moment? I thought that was something 
that was being developed to better integrate with the National Instruments 
hardware ecosystem.

Elvis Dowson