Hi Gavin On 06/26/2016 10:53 PM, Gavin Jacobs wrote: > Marcus, > Thanks for those words of encouragement; based on that I dived in. > 1. Tutorial you mentioned says to clone the repository "git ...". > Hmmm, I don't have git, but I can go the website, get a zip, extract > to my working directory; different tool with same result. > I don't know/think the .zip contains the volk submodule; I'm currently travelling, so I can't check. You should get git, anyway (it really makes a lot of sense when working with out-of-tree modules or source code in general).
> 2A. Tutorial says to use cmake. Hmmm, google search for cmake, > download, install, and it detects that I have Visual Studio; it tests > that and declares it usable (this is encouraging), but then barfs on a > missing package called Boost. > > 2B. Google search for Boost turns up a nutritional supplement - > probably not that. Second hit is a set of C++ libraries. Download, > install, try cmake again: same problem - can't find Boost. > Stuck here for now. Yeah, finding libraries under windows is a pain. You'll need to manually tell CMake where to find boost. I know I did that under Windows once, but can't remember how that looked like :/ Also, I think it'd be a very good idea to use the same boost version as was used to build the GNU Radio you're using – I don't know which one that is, though :( you might need to find out yourself by finding the boost.dlls that came with your GNU Radio installation and looking at their version. > > 3. Meanwhile, further on in the tutorial, I will need a tool called > gr_modtool. No gr_modtool.exe found, but I did locate a .py file. > Tried with Python and got this: > python "C:\Program Files\GNURadio-3.7\bin\gr_modtool.py" nm > Name of the new module: how2 > Could not find gr-newmod source dir. Uff, yeah... hm. That's probably one of the rough edges of the Windows build try something like python "C:\Program Files\GNURadio-3.7\bin\gr_modtool.py" nm "--srcdir=C:/path/to/GNU Radio/share/gnuradio/gr-newmod" you might have to use a file search program to find the gr-newmod directory. Sorry, really never tried to do that. > I found a configuration file for location of the newmod directory, so > I tried to override that to a local copy. No joy - same error. > There was someone on this list in 2014 named PEEL Luke who said he had > gr_modtool working on Windows - I would like to know the steps. > Also stuck here for now. > in 2014, both gr_modtool and windows support were totally different. No parallels can be drawn, sorry. > Did some further digging and learned that the windows binaries that I > downloaded were just recently assembled (i.e. prior to spring of 2016 > you had to build it yourself), so not surpisingly the OOT stuff hasn't > been tackled yet. Also, the hoops he had to jump through were many and > varied including numerous dependencies, so I'm not confident that I > could figure it out just by hacking along. > > So, I still wanted to try creating a GRC block. I created a VM (Ubuntu > 16.04) and installed the whole GR stuff there. Next I'll try that > tutorial again. Either way, we'll definitely look forward to hearing from you! Best regards, Marcus
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