Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 3.7.9.2 Win64 binaries ready + Build scripts

[Geof Nieboer]

Anon,

UHD 3.9.3 is the most current release from Ettus.

gqrx is on my to-do list, and in fact there are code stubs in the scripts already for it.  What stopped me is that it needs qt5 built, whereas GR is on qt4 still, so I wanted to get out what I had first before re-attacking that one.  But once I have that done (and Qt5 appears way easier to build than 4), then I'll get cracking on it.  gr-baz I have not taken a look at, but I will do so.

On the downloads page in the website, I tried to keep track of which library required what other libraries as I was going through it, so you'll see that listed, perhaps that might be useful in creating a dependency graph.  I don't guarantee it's 100% complete, though.

Yes, please let me know how the build goes.  Take a look at the "Issues" in the readme.  Biggest recurring irritation I had was downloads that would fail partway through then appear later as build failures.  I would like to move to a hash verification step after the download, but for the moment it is what it is.  And once the downloads have been successful once, you should be smooth sailing as it will keep them cached in the 'packages' subdir.

Geof

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Anon Lister <address@hidden> wrote:

This is awesome, I will test out the build process this weekend on 10. Any reason for the slightly older uhd release? I'd love to get gr-baz and gqrx working on Win.

I'm also somewhat interested in stealing a pre-compiled list of dependencies for my somewhat crazy project of building GR + some OOTs on RHEL 6. Talk about dependency hell. ;p

On Apr 14, 2016 6:24 AM, "Geof Nieboer" <address@hidden> wrote:

All,

Some may recall in the fall I posted a link to a beta windows installer.  I'm happy to report that I'm releasing new versions today for the 3.7.9.2 release, compatible with Windows 7/8/10.  All dependencies are included, and all are built natively using MSVC 2015, no Cygwin or MinGW required. It's about a 300MB package download.

I've also refactored the entire build process used to make the msi's and gotten it down to a series of Powershell scripts that can either:

1- Build the entire GNURadio windows dependency chain from source and then build GNURadio itself. 

2- Download a prebuilt "dependency pack" as binaries and then build GNURadio and a couple OOT modules

The binaries (for both GR and the dependencies) can be found at http://www.gcndevelopment.com/gnuradio.  The scripts themselves are hosted at http://github.com/gnieboer/gnuradio_windows_build_scripts.  While the binaries have no dependencies, the build scripts have several, but all mandatory dependencies are free to install.  The various patches required to make everything build on Win32/MSVC are either workarounds built into the scripts, patches downloadable on the website, or forked repos on my github account.  For the most part pull requests have been submitted upstream.

All GR components except gr-comedi are installed, and several OOT blocks are also included by default, including UHD 3.9.3, gr-fosphor, and gr-osmosdr with most drivers.  The windows audio sink has also been refactored to double buffer to avoid the skipping others have reported.

It uses OpenBLAS for numpy/scipy to stay GPLv3 compliant...users can replace it with an MKL-based version as a wheel from the downloads page should more performance be desired. 

More information is available on the website.  I hope both the binaries and scripts are useful and look forward to feedback.

Geof

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