Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio release 3.3.0-rc0 available for testing

[Michael Dickens]

On May 17, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote:
> If I had access to an OSX box, I'd see about getting qtgui to work
> better on it.

Well ... IIRC, the issue is that there is no standard install of Qt on  
OSX; one must do it by hand from source or use MacPorts / Fink /  
whatever.  At least for MacPorts, Qt is installed into $prefix/libexec/ 
qt4-mac , but then symlinks are dropped into $prefix/lib/pkgconfig  
with the hope that pkg-config is provided with the correct names to  
determine where Qt is installed.  The Qt .pc files are:

Qt3Support_debug.pc, QtAssistant_debug.pc, QtCLucene_debug.pc,  
QtCore_debug.pc, QtDBus_debug.pc, QtDesignerComponents_debug.pc,  
QtDesigner_debug.pc, QtGui_debug.pc, QtHelp_debug.pc,  
QtMultimedia_debug.pc, QtNetwork_debug.pc, QtOpenGL_debug.pc,  
QtScriptTools_debug.pc, QtScript_debug.pc, QtSql_debug.pc,  
QtSvg_debug.pc, QtTest_debug.pc, QtUiTools_debug.pc,  
QtWebKit_debug.pc, QtXmlPatterns_debug.pc, QtXml_debug.pc,  
phonon_debug.pc

though the non "_debug" versions are in $prefix/libexec/qt4-mac/lib/ 
pkgconfig .  I don't know why they do it this way, but I'll look to  
see if there are any tickets open to change this behavior.

I don't remember how GNU Radio checks for Qt; maybe you can look into  
that & add in the debug variants & make sure a non-standard install  
location would work?  I'd love to use Qt with GNU Radio on OSX, so I'm  
happy to collaborate with you on the side to get this working. - MLD