Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OOT Block on Windows feasible?

[Gavin Jacobs]

Marcus,
Thanks for those words of encouragement; based on that I dived in.
1. Tutorial you mentioned says to clone the repository "git ...". Hmmm, I don't have git, but I can go the website, get a zip, extract to my working directory; different tool with same result.

2A. Tutorial says to use cmake. Hmmm, google search for cmake, download, install, and it detects that I have Visual Studio; it tests that and declares it usable (this is encouraging), but then barfs on a missing package called Boost.

2B. Google search for Boost turns up a nutritional supplement - probably not that. Second hit is a set of C++ libraries. Download, install, try cmake again: same problem - can't find Boost.
Stuck here for now.

3. Meanwhile, further on in the tutorial, I will need a tool called gr_modtool. No gr_modtool.exe found, but I did locate a .py file. Tried with Python and got this:
    python "C:\Program Files\GNURadio-3.7\bin\gr_modtool.py" nm
    Name of the new module: how2
    Could not find gr-newmod source dir.
I found a configuration file for location of the newmod directory, so I tried to override that to a local copy. No joy - same error.
There was someone on this list in 2014 named PEEL Luke who said he had gr_modtool working on Windows - I would like to know the steps.
Also stuck here for now.

Did some further digging and learned that the windows binaries that I downloaded were just recently assembled (i.e. prior to spring of 2016 you had to build it yourself), so not surpisingly the OOT stuff hasn't been tackled yet. Also, the hoops he had to jump through were many and varied including numerous dependencies, so I'm not confident that I could figure it out just by hacking along.

So, I still wanted to try creating a GRC block. I created a VM (Ubuntu 16.04) and installed the whole GR stuff there. Next I'll try that tutorial again.

Jake

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> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 14:15:41 +0200
> From: Marcus M?ller <address@hidden>
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> Hi Gavin,
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