Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GR on MacOS X?

[Michael Dickens]

Jon - Do I take it that you're compiling from source, not using Fink  
or DarwinPorts (DP)?  If that's the case, mucho respect for you ... I  
tried that and gave up on wxPython - just never got the correct  
configurations to make things work.

USRP should compile without issue once you've gotten the correct  
library dependencies down in the configure file (and whence, the m4  
file).  It's an easy change; here's my diff to usrp/config/ 
usrp_libusb.m4:

% diff usrp_libusb.m4 usrp_libusb.m4.orig
30,33d29
<   case "$target_os" in
<     darwin*)    LIBS="$LIBS -lIOKit" ;;
<     *) ;;
<   esac

I just joined (today) the gnuradio discuss & patch lists, and haven't  
taken time to submit this patch.

GR-USRP should compile once USRP is installed, without any further  
changes.

If you're using DP, then the biggest issue I've had is that the "gnu  
libtool" and "gnu libtoolize" are renamed "glibtool" and  
"glibtoolize" (so as to not compete with Apple's "libtool"), and thus  
bootstrap won't execute properly.  This is a simple change to the  
bootstrap script (each of them), and there's probably a simple way to  
patch those files but I haven't taken the time.

DP provides the latest releases of most applications/libraries,  
though the SDCC version is what GR requires (2.4.0).  I've found only  
2 bugs in their patches, and both were easy to work around; 1 bug  
looks fixed now (from SMPEG, a dependency of something else I no  
longer remember); I reported both bugs a while back.

Using DP took me maybe 1 week to get everything to compile (well, not  
the ALSA stuff), including the 2 compilation bugs (I also don't have  
lots of spare cycles to do this work just yet).  I have a set of  
directions, including a script for the DP dependencies, which I'll  
get up on a WWW page soon.  Nothing really technical to get things  
working when using DP: just reading man pages, searching files, and  
some good programming knowledge. - MLD