Performance counters in GNU Radio

[GNU Radio, the Free & Open-Source Toolkit for Software Radio]

Hi,
I am using GNU Radio which I installed from binary (3.10.1.1). I am
creating my own OOT and I would like to use *Performance Counters* features
like pc_nproduced() function. Here
<https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/Performance_Counters> I found that
they are not enabled by default and I saw that this function returns 0.0 .
Does it force me to install GNU Radio from source and during compile time
enable the *Performance Counters? *
Thanks