Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] New to list, trying portaudio under OpenBSD

[Tom Rondeau]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Alan Corey <address@hidden> wrote:

I've got my disabled list down to:
--   * gr-comedi
--   * gr-qtgui
--   * gr-uhd
--   * gr-shd
--   * gr-fcd
--   * gr-wxgui
But mostly I've just been finding dependancies and installing them.

I think I'm going to have to give up on gr-fcd because there seems to
be some thread stuff in there that OpenBSD doesn't do.  OpenBSD's
pthread.h is quite a bit different than Debian's pthread.h.  OpenBSD's
had thread issues for a while.

I found it does have Jack audio in ports so I don't need portaudio to work.

I don't think I need fcd because my dongle isn't a Funcube but I think
I do need either wxgui or qtgui to work.  I'm completely new to
Gnuradio so I'm not sure what I need.

  Alan

Unless you want to prove that you can get all components working under OpenBSD, you definitely don't need to stress about all of them. gr-comedi, gr-fcd, gr-shd, and gr-uhd are specific to certain hardware systems. Just focus on the ones you are actually interested in.

You'll probably want one of the GUI components, though. I prefer gr-qtgui, but most of the GR apps and examples in the source code are based on gr-wxgui, so that might be the one you want to focus on.

Tom

 

On 12/14/12, Tom Rondeau <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Alan Corey <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I'm working on installing gnuradio under OpenBSD, just got GRC
>> working.  I have no audio, since gnuradio doesn't handle OpenBSD's
>> native "audio" and it also doesn't recognize my existing portaudio
>> which works with Audacity.
>>
>> I can set it up in my cmake cache but it still doesn't find it.  I'm
>> running the standard OpenBSD port portaudio-svn-1406p1 built from
>> sources.  I've had a little experience writing things in C that work
>> with native audio but I don't know much about portaudio except it's
>> working for other things like Fldigi.
>>
>> I see NetBSD has gnuradio-audio-portaudio which may be different than
>> their normal portaudio but I don't find source for it, only binaries.
>> OpenBSD audio is very similar to NetBSD's having borrowed a lot
>> including audio manpages.
>>
>> I'll have other questions, right now I've also got no working gui.
>> But I've only had my dongle since Monday.  It's an RTL2832 with a
>> R820T tuner.  I'm trying to get some software for it working, I try
>> Gnuradio, osmocom, sdr#, hdsdr in round robin fashion working on one
>> until I hit a stopping point then on to another.  Osmocom's rtl_fm is
>> the only thing even partly working so far.  I get little bursts of
>> audio about 1 per minute.
>>
>>   Alan, ab1jx
>>
>> --
>> Credit is the root of all evil.  - AB1JX
>>
>
>
> Hi Alan,
> I can't really help you or give much advice to working on GNU Radio in
> OpenBSD. But I if you make progress in getting things set up, please help
> us by updating the wiki's notes for building. And if there are specific
> issues that can be addressed by patches to the build system, please send
> them along (by using the Issues tracker on gnuradio.org).
>
> Tom
>


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Credit is the root of all evil.  - AB1JX