# About building gnuradio on mac os x lion behind a firewall **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [May 26, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-building-gnuradio-on-mac-os-x-lion-behind-a-firewall/235018 "2013-05-26T15:41:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alcina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@alcina](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alcina)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-building-gnuradio-on-mac-os-x-lion-behind-a-firewall/235018/1 "2013-05-26T15:41:26Z")
Hi, Is it possible to compile gnuradio in Mac OS X Lion. I am behind a college firewall and I can use only port 80 and sometimes 443. Svn, rsync etc. doesn’t work and so i can use neither fink nor macports. Some of the dependencies can be installed with Homebrew (package manager) using “git over https” but not all. I managed to build UHD. But while doing ‘make test’ on gnuradio 3.6.4.1, it failed almost all the tests. Thanks, swrangsar ---
**Author:** ![swrangsar\_basumatar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@swrangsar\_basumatar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swrangsar_basumatar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-building-gnuradio-on-mac-os-x-lion-behind-a-firewall/235018/2 "2013-05-26T21:49:29Z")
Hi swrangsar - I’m the MacPorts maintainer for the GNU Radio related ports. MacPorts can install all of this (GNU Radio, UHD, osmosdr for RTL devices), and should work correctly with Mac OS X Lion. I generally recommend against simultaneously using MacPorts and any other means of installing dependencies (e.g., via Homebrew of Fink), but this can be made to work. I would have expected Homebrew and Fink to provide a GNU Radio and UHD install, too, so maybe that is worth looking into. If you do decide to use MacPorts, and have issues, send me an email off-list and I’ll help you work through the issues. Good luck! - MLD ---
**Author:** ![swrangsar\_basumatar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@swrangsar\_basumatar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swrangsar_basumatar)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 7:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-building-gnuradio-on-mac-os-x-lion-behind-a-firewall/235018/3 "2013-05-28T07:13:20Z")
Hi michael, How do i install gnuradio with uhd support using macports. my guess is : sudo port install gnuradio +uhd thanks, swrangsar On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:40 AM, swrangsar basumatary \ **Author:** ![swrangsar\_basumatar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@swrangsar\_basumatar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swrangsar_basumatar)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 8:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-building-gnuradio-on-mac-os-x-lion-behind-a-firewall/235018/4 "2013-05-28T08:03:00Z") Hi swrangsar - I generally recommend doing: {{{ sudo port install gnuradio +full }}} to get all of the goodies, including python swig interface files and all possible components (wxgui, qtgui, etc). But, Qt takes a -long- time to build if if a non-standard install – the default install will be available as a downloadable binary which is much faster. Hence, there are variants for different installs depending on what dependencies folks already have or are willing to install. Do: {{{ port variants gnuradio }}} to see the list and make your selection. What you wrote (“sudo port install gnuradio +uhd”) will install the basic GNU Radio libraries along with binary/library support for UHD. But, it will not install the components for GUIs, SWIG bindings for the Python interface, nor GRC. Of course, not everyone wants all of the “bells and whistles” installed; so, maybe this would be all you need. As a side note, if you have Homebrew installed and want to move to MacPorts, I think the major thing you need to is change your shell environment to -not- access anything from Homebrew. So, change PATH, PYTHONPATH, any DYLD\*, and anything else that refers to Homebrew’s install location. I’ve never used Homebrew so I cannot comment on if there is anything else; but, generally, my experience has been that if the shell does not know where to look, it won’t find anything. You can always make a tarball of the Homebrew directory then remove (sudo rm -rf) it. Good luck! - MLD ---
**Author:** ![swrangsar\_basumatar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@swrangsar\_basumatar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swrangsar_basumatar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-building-gnuradio-on-mac-os-x-lion-behind-a-firewall/235018/5 "2013-05-26T21:51:50Z")
On May 26, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Michael D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Homebrew of Fink Homebrew -or- Fink 🙂