-Building and using gnuradio on windows (win32) using mingw

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-Required tools and libraries

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-MingW and Msys

-Download the latest stable version from the mingw site oand follow their installation instructions)

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-Python for windows version 2.4 (or higher)

-You do not need to build this yourself.

-You can just install the windows executable which you can find on the python site.

-I am not sure if it will work if you have speces in your python pathname.

-I recommend installing it in C:\Python24 or D:\Python24

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-Libtool

-If you are building from cvs you need a recent libtool

-msys comes with libtool, but the version distributed with current mingw doesn't work with gnuradio.

-download, build and install a recent libtool

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-cppunit

-Build and install cppunit

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-boost

-build and install boost (maybe you can get away with only unpacking the source, we only use the boost header files)

-If you build boost, you first have to download jam (boost jam) for win32. (Do not use build and use the cygwin version)

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-build environment:

-You need to have the following files on your PATH:

-python.exe python24.dll libcppunit-1-10-2.dll libfftw3f-3.dll fftwf-wisdom.exe cppunit-config

-If you have cygwin installed Make sure that NO cygwin executables are on your path.

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-needed on PATH:

-/usr/local/bin

-/mingw/bin

-/bin

-/c/Python24/ python.exe

-/c/Python24/libs python24.dll

-/c/Python24/DLLs

-/usr/local/bin or /mingw/bin or /my/special/installed/lib/folder/bin

- libcppunit-1-10-2.dll

- libfftw3f-3.dll

- fftw-wisdom-to-conf

- fftwf-wisdom.exe

- cppunit-config

-/c/WINNT/system32

-/c/WINNT

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-I made a little script set_clean_path.sh to set my path for building gnuradio where I just discard the original PATH (to get rid of the cygwin executables on my default path) and just include what is needed:

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-#!/bin/sh

-export PATH=".:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/Python24:/c/Python24/DLLs:/c/Python24/libs:/my/special/installed/lib/folder/bin:/c/WINNT/system32:/c/WINNT:/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:.

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-You need to source this script to set the PATH.

-. ./set_clean_path.sh

-(notice the extra dot and space in the beginning of the line, this means source this file. Sourcing means execute it and remember all environment variables set in this script)

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-If you are building from cvs it is recommended that you edit bootstrap to your needs and use it

-If you built a recent libtool and didn't overwrite the original libtool

-(because you installed the new version in /usr/local) then you have to tell aclocal to use the more recent libtool m4 macros.

-You can do this by appending -I /usr/local/share/aclocal to the aclocal commandline

-I also changed the aclocal and automake invocations to use the most recent version in my bootstrap script

-Here follows the bootstrap script I use

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-#!/bin/sh

-rm -fr config.cache autom4te*.cache

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-aclocal-1.8 -I config -I /usr/local/share/aclocal

-autoconf

-autoheader

-libtoolize --automake

-automake-1.8 --add-missing

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-If you run this script it will convert a clean cvs checkout to a version which you can configure, build and install

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-So now you can configure gnuradio.

-On win32 / mingw you need to give it a few parameters:

- - You need to tell it where cppunit is installed

- - where boost include files are to be found

- - where the pkg-config of libfftw is to be found

- - to use a generic cpu (no 3Dnow, SSE, MMX) (This option will not be needed anymore soon)

- - If you have boost installed in C:\boost_1_32_0 and cppunit and fftw in /usr/local then you would need the following configure commandline:

- $ ./configure --with-md-cpu=generic --with-cppunit-prefix=/usr/local --with-boost-include-dir=/c/boost_1_32_0/include/boost-1_32 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

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-If everything went well you can now do:

- $ make

- $ make install

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-Now you have a working gnuradio-runtime.

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-Now you can go on building and installing gr-audio-windows and windows and wxgui.

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-Remember that all gnuradio and python dlls need to be on your path to use gnuradio.

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-The gnuradio dlls are installed at:

-/c/Python24/Lib/site-packages:/c/Python24/Lib/site-packages/gnuradio:/c/Python24/Lib/site-packages/gnuradio/gr