On 03/08/2011 11:00 PM, Vijay Pillai wrote:
I initially tried to do everything on Cygwin. I spent
more than 4 days (12+hours per day) trying to get this running without
much success due all the issues about differing versions of compilers,
other errors on the board and so on. Only for experts like Don Ward,
would Cygwin be a feasible option.
Then finally this afternoon i tried Ubuntu (after a suggestion from the
folks at Ettus). It took me only 4 hours to get running (including
installing Ubuntu on my Windows machine which is easily done using
Wubi). I am very happy with what I am seeing and am much excited to
start using my USRP.
Considering what a hassle Cygwin has been, I think it would be a
disservice to future users to even have it listed there (unless maybe
it is clearly indicated in large red font that it could be a futile
endeavor) on the gnuradio page. There was a feeble mention of possible
issues on the webpage, which I think is a gross understatement just
going by my experience.
Best regards,
-Vijay
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My expectation is that eventually, there will be "conventional"
installers for Gnu Radio + UHD for
Windows, Linux, and MacOS environments, and that those installers
will be kept fairly up-to-date
with the development sources. But we're not there yet.
I used my own "build-gnuradio" script to do a GIT-based install of Gnu
Radio + UHD on a
Ubuntu 10.0 VM last week, and it went flawlessly--I didn't run into
the problem you had with
it being unable to find the libraries. But my script does a refresh
of ldconfig after doing the
"make install", so perhaps that's why I didn't run into the problem
you ran into.
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Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
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