On Mar 8, 2011, at 11:12 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > My expectation is that eventually, there will be "conventional" installers > for Gnu Radio + UHD for Windows, Linux, and MacOS environments, and that > those installers will be kept fairly up-to-date with the development sources. > But we're not there yet.
I did this once upon a time for Mac OS X (10.5, universal) and GRC (when it was still called that) using MacPorts to provide all of the dependencies -- it is -very- thorough in keeping itself separate from the OS, and so it uses internal versions of already-installed dependencies (e.g., libiconv, expat). Even when removing as much cruft as I could, and compressing the resulting archive, the end-result file was some, IIRC, 900 MB. Looking at 'du' for just what GNU Radio installed shows maybe 100 MB before compression -- so a LOT of "extra" space just for background stuff. GRC did work as expected though ... ;) I never made this install available, since it's just so !@#$ big. I also tried to create a version, using special MacPorts scripts, that would use the OS-installed dependencies as much as possible. Implementing this concept was much more difficult than expected, and I gave up a few days. Seems like there has to be a way to do this "fewer dependency" version ... Anyway, just know that these conventional installers will take work, primarily because of the dependencies issue. - MLD _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
