Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 3.7.8 Windows Binaries available for testing

[Geof Nieboer]

Nathan,

Thanks!  Yes, there were some changes required, the good news that they were fairly minor for GNURadio/volk.   I'm going to refactor the build environment next for the release version, and as I do, I'll post bug reports and upload patch files etc..  I do have a fork set up for GNURadio on github, but haven't uploaded the changes to it yet.  I will though for incorporation.

Geof

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:37 AM, West, Nathan <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Geof Nieboer <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello all,

I've completed a *beta* version of a windows binary installer for GNURadio 3.7.8.

Information about it is available at http://www.gcndevelopment.com/gnuradio as is the download itself of course.

Essentially I compiled every package in the dependency chain from source in 64-bit VS 2015, so it contains everything needed to run.  It also includes UHD/osmocom drivers for UHD, RTLSDR, HackRF, BladeRF, FCD, and AirSpy.  It should run on Win 7+ and has been roughly tested on Win 7 & 10.

IMPORTANT: This is just a beta version; is 64-bit only, and I set all the optimizations for AVX2, so it will NOT run on any CPU prior to Haswell.  Sorry about that, the 'production' version will come with two options, AVX2 or SSE2+.

So I'd sure appreciate feedback as I prep the next version, even if Windows isn't your primary platform.  The install is completely removable and doesn't impact any other Python installations or environment variables (see the website for more details).  It's ~400MB download.  Documentation and notes as to "why" are available on the site.

Cheers,

Geof

Hi Geof,

First, congrats on this achievement. Were there changes to GNU Radio and/or VOLK required to do this? Assuming some changes were required: do you have a public repo with your modifications and are you planning to submit them for merging in to GNU Radio and VOLK?

Cheers,

-Nathan