Hello Franco,
Thank you for your work supporting the SDRplay receivers in GNU Radio!
I would recommend using the Anaconda based approach. Here is a direct
link to the page that covers it in more detail. This is the current best
method to get a fully native setup on Windows that supports developing
out of tree modules. I run and develop with GNU Radio on a daily (or at
least weekly) basis and this approach does work fairly well.
https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/CondaInstall
If you have any questions or hit issues I'm happy to help and the chat
channels are quite active and include Ryan Volz, the main packager for
GNU Radio in Conda and author of that guide.
Regards,
Derek
On 1/15/2022 3:10 AM, Franco VENTURI wrote:
I am the developer of the GNU Radio OOT module 'gr-sdrplay3' to
support the SDRplay RSPs as native GNU Radio sources, and I received
some inquiries about running it on Windows (I run Linux here and
that's what I use for GNU Radio and other SDR applications).
Since I wrote that OOT module for GNU Radio 3.9+ (i.e. 3.9 and 3.10)
because of the pybind11 bindings (no SWIG), I took a quick look at
this page in the Wiki
(https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/WindowsInstall), and I see that
there are a few options:
- Geof Nieboer's binary installer for Windows (but it looks like
there's only a version 3.9.0.0 beta, and the last commit to that
GitHub repo was from about a year and a half ago)
- radioconda (latest release October of last year, GNU Radio version
3.9.3.0)
- Pothos SDR development environment (not sure of the version of GNU
Radio there)
- various ways of building from source (MSYS, Cygwin, WSL)
Since I would like to give it a try and see if the 'gr-sdrplay3' OOT
module can run on Windows (and perhaps package it somehow), I was
wondering for those of you who are running on a daily basis a recent
version (3.9+) of GNU Radio on Windows, what is the preferred option
both in terms of day-to-day usage and development?
Thanks in advance,
Franco Venturi
