Hi Folks,
I’ve built GNU Radio under MacOS X 10.6.2 today. It is way easier than
when I last tried under 10.4
I’m building it without “Fink” or “MacPorts” as I intend to make
installer packages for the dependency libraries so a dummy user can
install it at the end.
The libraries I’ve built and installed are: boost_1_41_0,
cppunit-1.12.1, libusb-0.1.12, sdcc-src-2.9.0, swig-1.3.40, fftw-3.2.2
I’ve run into only one problem with GnuRadio itself. It doesn’t built
because all the makefile templates are called Makefile.am and not
Makefile.in. If I remember correctly this depends on the autoconf tool
versions. I’m using the ones which come with MaOS X (autoconf 2.6,
automake 1.10). Copying Makefile.am to Makefile.in in all the directory
tree made it compile.
One thing I’ve also noted is the lack of support for USRP2 which has
truly astonished me. Given MacOS X and Linux differ very little on the
API’s of network interfaces, I can’t understand why the Linux variant
wouldn’t run under MacOS X. Can anyone shed some light on what’s
stopping it from working?
Andreas Fink
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Hi Andreas - I can talk to one of your issues:
It doesn’t built because all the makefile templates are called
Makefile.am and not Makefile.in. If I remember correctly this
depends on the autoconf tool versions. I’m using the ones which come
with MaOS X (autoconf 2.6, automake 1.10). Copying Makefile.am to
Makefile.in in all the directory tree made it compile.
You need to run ‘bootstrap’ to convert the .am files to .in files,
then ‘configure’ to convert .in files to their final form. You’ll
need to rename one of the commands in ‘bootstrap’ from ‘libtoolize’ to
‘glibtoolize’ … this latter command should already be installed with
XCode on 10.6.2. It’s GNU’s version of ‘libtool’ … Apple has their
own version which can be used to compile executables to run on OSX,
but Apple’s version isn’t compatible with GNU’s version – hence the
name change (prepending the ‘g’ to GNU’s version).
If the above doesn’t answer your question, then you’ll need to be more
specific. You can also review my “GR on OSX install guide” on
radioware.nd.edu , which discusses various issues in the OSX
installation and how to work around and / or generally deal with them.
One thing I’ve also noted is the lack of support for USRP2 which has
truly astonished me. Given MacOS X and Linux differ very little on
the API’s of network interfaces, I can’t understand why the Linux
variant wouldn’t run under MacOS X. Can anyone shed some light on
what’s stopping it from working?
I’ll let Eric give the definitive answer, but I think we’re waiting
for VRT support to be finalized. You can search the GNU Radio
archives for more info on VRT.
Good luck with GNU Radio on OSX! - MLD