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Any movement on this? I'm also having trouble compiling for GR3.8

ckoval7 wrote:

Any movement on this? I'm also having trouble compiling for GR3.8

Have a look at this, it should compile for gnuradio 3.8.

https://github.com/igorauad/gr-osmosdr/tree/gr3.8

To convert the xml to yaml, you can use this script

https://gist.github.com/haakov/4228ff6a14486641add538483093e86b

st1905 wrote:

Have a look at this, it should compile for gnuradio 3.8.

https://github.com/igorauad/gr-osmosdr/tree/gr3.8

Thanks! Do you know if/when the branch will be merged back to the official repository ?

martymac wrote:

st1905 wrote:

Have a look at this, it should compile for gnuradio 3.8.

https://github.com/igorauad/gr-osmosdr/tree/gr3.8

Thanks! Do you know if/when the branch will be merged back to the official repository ?

I don`t know if it is going to be merged to the official repo but you can ask Mickey Vänskä >> https://github.com/mvaenskae

st1905 wrote:

I don`t know if it is going to be merged to the official repo but you can ask Mickey Vänskä >> https://github.com/mvaenskae

I've asked him, thanks!

st1905 wrote:

ckoval7 wrote:

Any movement on this? I'm also having trouble compiling for GR3.8

Have a look at this, it should compile for gnuradio 3.8.

https://github.com/igorauad/gr-osmosdr/tree/gr3.8

To convert the xml to yaml, you can use this script

https://gist.github.com/haakov/4228ff6a14486641add538483093e86b

I can confirm that gr-osmosdr is working on FreeBSD 12(Gnuradio 3.8) but i cant make gqrx work, it always segfaults.

Today i got GQRX working fine too, i had to use "built-in source types: soapy" only soapy is compiled otherwise gqrx segfaults or aborts. All working fine now.

Only UHD causes segfault, all other builtin sources work fine.

Added packages for FreeBSD 12 in case someone would like to use them.

st1905 wrote:

Added packages for FreeBSD 12 in case someone would like to use them.

Thanks!

I will update the port ASAP. Stay tuned...

martymac wrote:

I will update the port ASAP. Stay tuned...

Hello,

Well, I've just committed updates to comms/gr-osmosdr and comms/gqrx FreeBSD ports.

For gr-osmosdr, I've used the branch from : https://github.com/igorauad/gr-osmosdr/tree/gr3.8 (as well as a small fix for gnuradio-blocks detection : FILE and RTL_TCP were always disabled).

For gqrx, I've used the patch from that pull request : https://github.com/csete/gqrx/pull/696

To all people involved: thanks a lot for your hard work, comments and links, it helped me a lot!

Cheers,

Ganael.

EDIT: anyway, it would be nice if the gr3.8 branch could be merged upstream :p

martymac wrote:

st1905 wrote:

Have a look at this, it should compile for gnuradio 3.8.

https://github.com/igorauad/gr-osmosdr/tree/gr3.8

Thanks! Do you know if/when the branch will be merged back to the official repository ?

Thanks so much. I've been struggling for the better part of a week with this and now it works great due to your efforts. I was even able to do a successful build using gr3.9 by a simple edit to the cmakelists.txt file to have it look for 3.9 instead of 3.8.

FYI: We're actively looking for a new gr-osmosdr maintainer (or team of maintainers), who would then take care (among other things) of integrating gr3.8 support, see http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/osmocom-sdr/2019-September/001983.html

Feel free to step up! Thanks.

I had a quick look yesterday at the port to 3.8 on github (both are the same, with just one more commit). gnuradio-blocks wasn't found despite that "fix" because it's not complete / correct.

Adding more patches (from Maitland, the GR package maintainer for debian), I got a more complete version but :

- The updated build system is still far from being "proper".

The remaining issues are too numerous to list (and if I knew them all, I could fix them ... reviewing and finding them is the hard part).
But a couple of examples:

set(GR_REQUIRED_COMPONENTS RUNTIME PMT BLOCKS)

That stuff doesn't exist in 3.8 anymore

All the GrXXXX in cmake/Modules/... : In 3.8 policy is to always use the ones installed and not local copies anymore. They need to be removed and all the cmake logic adapted to work with the upstream ones.

- It's still missing updates version of the apps that ship with osmosdr. (osmocom-fft / osmocom-siggen / ...) Someone needs to pretty much rewrite those from scratch using the Qt widgets.

Only once someone submits something that fixes both the issue above will a 3.8 release be possible.

For what it's worth, I had no trouble compiling the current `master` (`af2fda2`, tag `v0.2.0`) against gnuradio 3.8 (the ubuntu 3.8.1.0~gnuradio~eoan-1 package) and using it with an rtl-sdr dongle.