Re: Porting oot modules to gr 3.9 and pybind

[Volker Schroer]

Yes,
__PIC__ is required, and ENABLE_PYTHON, too.

With hardcoded  include directories to add_include in
 bindtool/core/generator.py I'm able to generate the bindings and build
the module.

But trying to run the blocks fails with typeError.

For instance

  File
"/home/schroer/gnuradiocomponents/gr-display.orig/python/qa_display_text_msg.py",
line 30, in test_instance
    instance = text_msg('TestString')
TypeError: __init__(): incompatible constructor arguments. The following
argument types are supported:
    1. display.display_python.text_msg(label: str, parent: QWidget = 0)

Invoked with: 'TestString'

Or

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/home/schroer/gnuradiocomponents/gr-display.orig/python/qa_show_image.py",
line 32, in test_instance
    instance = show_image(imagewidth ,
TypeError: __init__(): incompatible constructor arguments. The following
argument types are supported:
    1. display.display_python.show_image(imagewidth: int, imageheight:
int, parent: QWidget = 0)

Invoked with: 1024, 512, None


What am I doing wrong, or what is missing ?

The only difference I can see to my working gr-funcube is the use of a
QWidget as parameter.

Any hints ?

-- Volker

> In parseheader_generic.py, there is fpic defined, but I think it might
> need the __PIC__
>
>              generator_path, generator_name = utils.find_xml_generator()
>              xml_generator_config = parser.xml_generator_configuration_t(
>                  xml_generator_path=generator_path,
>                  xml_generator=generator_name,
>                  include_paths=self.include_paths,
>                  compiler='gcc',
>                  undefine_symbols=['__PIE__'],
>
> #define_symbols=['BOOST_ATOMIC_DETAIL_EXTRA_BACKEND_GENERIC', '__PIC__'],
>
> define_symbols=['BOOST_ATOMIC_DETAIL_EXTRA_BACKEND_GENERIC'],
>                  cflags='-std=c++11 -fPIC')
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 11:38 AM Volker Schroer <dl1ksv@gmx.de
> <mailto:dl1ksv@gmx.de>> wrote:
>
>     Josh,
>
>     meanwhile I found the add_include parameter
>     in bindtool/core/generator.py and hardcoded there the qt includes.
>
>     That leads to
>
>     INFO Parsing source file
>     
> "/home/schroer/gnuradiocomponents/gr-display.orig/include/display/display_text_msg.h"
>     ...
>     In file included from
>     
> /home/schroer/gnuradiocomponents/gr-display.orig/include/display/display_text_msg.h:33:
>     In file included from
>     /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtWidgets/qapplication.h:43:
>     In file included from
>     /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtWidgets/qtwidgetsglobal.h:43:
>     In file included from
>     /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtGui/qtguiglobal.h:43:
>     /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtCore/qglobal.h:1187:4: error: "You
>     must build your code with position
>             independent code if Qt was built with -reduce-relocations. "
>          "Compile your code with -fPIC
>             (-fPIE is not enough)."
>     #  error "You must build your code with position independent code if Qt
>     was built with -reduce-rel...
>          ^
>     1 error generated.
>     Error occurred while running CASTXML:  status:1
>
>
>     So I think , some compiler flags are needed, too.
>
>     I'm going to find out how to come across.
>
>     In the long run the bind tool will need an additional include-directory
>     parameter.
>
>     -- Volker
>
>
>     Am 01.07.20 um 17:02 schrieb Josh:
>      > Volker,
>      >
>      > Glad that the first one worked.  I had to do a little bit of
>     gymnastics
>      > to get the gr-qtgui files binded in-tree.  If you look at the
>     notes in
>      > gr-utils/bindtool/scripts/bind_gr_module.py, QTGUI required
>     passing as
>      > args the include directories to the QT installation.  This is because
>      > pygccxml does some sort of sandboxed compile of the target header
>     file.
>      > So gr_modtool bind will need to have those arguments or some other
>      > script to get around it.  I can take a look at this, but there
>     might be
>      > a workaround for getting the bindings generated now.
>      >
>      > Josh
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 5:50 AM Volker Schroer <dl1ksv@gmx.de
>     <mailto:dl1ksv@gmx.de>
>      > <mailto:dl1ksv@gmx.de <mailto:dl1ksv@gmx.de>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     Hi,
>      >
>      >     I'm just started to port some of my oot modules to gr 3.9 and
>     pybind. I
>      >     followed
>      >
>     https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/GNU_Radio_3.9_OOT_Module_Porting_Guide
>      >
>      >     and it worked flawless for my first module gr-funcube.
>      >
>      >     Now I'm trying to port gr-display , which requires qt5 to be
>     built.
>      >     When I run
>      >
>      >     gr_modtool bind display_text_msg
>      >
>      >     I get:
>      >     GNU Radio module name identified: display
>      >     INFO Parsing source file
>      >
>       
> "/home/schroer/gnuradiocomponents/gr-display.orig/include/display/display_text_msg.h"
>      >     ...
>      >
>       
> /home/schroer/gnuradiocomponents/gr-display.orig/include/display/display_text_msg.h:33:10:
>      >     fatal error:
>      >             'qapplication.h' file not found
>      >     #include <qapplication.h>
>      >                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>      >     1 error generated.
>      >     Error occurred while running CASTXML:  status:1
>      >
>      >
>      >     How can I come across this error ?
>      >
>      >     -- Volker
>      >
>      >
>      >