Re: {Disarmed} Re: [WVURAIL/gr-radio_astro] Installation difficulty (#20)

[Glen I Langston]

Wow!

That’s fantastic Ron.

Very glad you showed how to accomplish the upgrade.

Thanks

Glen

I agree with your first point about CMake.  The previous version just seemed
to work.  The new version of CMake should have maintained compatibility with 
the previous
version instead of breaking everything.

> On Jun 12, 2020, at 3:22 AM, Ron Economos <w6rz@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> The GNU Radio porting to 3.8 guides instruct you to edit CMake files. You 
> should never have to edit CMake files. CMake is over the heads even of the 
> best of us.
> 
> The good news is that you can leverage gr_modtool to create the correct CMake 
> files for you. It's a little more work, but a successful build is much easier 
> to accomplish.
> 
> Here are the steps for GNU Radio 3.8.
> 1) Clone your repo.
> 
> 2) Rename it to something else. For example gr-radio_astro37.
> 
> 3) Create a new OOT with gr_modtool using the old name. For example, 
> gr_modtool newmod radio_astro
> 
> 4) Use gr_modtool to add all of your blocks.
> 
> 5) Copy over the newly created block files with your old block files.
> 
> 6) In the old repo, run gr_modtool update --complete
> 
> 7) Copy over the newly created .yml files.
> 
> 8) Copy over your .grc example files.
> 9) Build and install. If you have Python blocks, you may have to update them 
> for Python3 (mostly adding parentheses to Print statements).
> 
> 10) Regenerate all of your .grc files from XML to YAML.
> I went ahead and converted your OOT. Here's the log of shell commands (with a 
> working directory of ~/xfer):
> 
> git clone https://github.com/WVURAIL/gr-radio_astro.git
> 
> mv gr-radio_astro gr-radio_astro37
> 
> gr_modtool newmod radio_astro
> 
> cd gr-radio_astro
> 
> gr_modtool add dedispersion
> gr_modtool add detect
> gr_modtool add vmedian
> 
> cd lib/
> 
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/lib/dedispersion_impl.* .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/lib/detect_impl.* .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/lib/vmedian_impl.* .
> 
> cd ..
> cd include/radio_astro/
> 
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/include/radio_astro/dedispersion.h .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/include/radio_astro/detect.h .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/include/radio_astro/vmedian.h .
> 
> cd ../..
> 
> gr_modtool add chart_recorder
> gr_modtool add csv_filesink
> gr_modtool add dedisperse
> gr_modtool add hd5_sink
> gr_modtool add powerSpectrum
> gr_modtool add ra_ascii_sink
> gr_modtool add ra_event_log
> gr_modtool add ra_event_sink
> gr_modtool add ra_integrate
> gr_modtool add ra_vave
> gr_modtool add ra_vmedian
> gr_modtool add systemp_calibration
> gr_modtool add correlate
> 
> cd python
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/chart_recorder.py .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/correlate.py .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/csv_filesink.py .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/dedisperse.py .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/hdf5_sink.py .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/powerSpectrum.py .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/ra_ascii_sink.py .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/ra_event_log.py .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/ra_event_sink.py .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/ra_integrate.py .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/ra_vave.py .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/ra_vmedian.py .
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/python/systemp_calibration.py .
> cd ../..
> 
> cd gr-radio_astro37
> 
> gr_modtool update --complete
> 
> cd ..
> 
> cd gr-radio_astro/grc
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/grc/*.yml .
> 
> cd ..
> cd examples/
> 
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/examples/*.grc .
> 
> cp ~/xfer/gr-radio_astro37/examples/*.conf .
> 
> cd ..
> mkdir build
> cd build/
> cmake ../
> 
> make
> sudo make install
> sudo ldconfig
> cd ..
> 
> cd examples/
> 
> gnuradio-companion vectordemo.grc
> Ron
> On 6/11/20 13:06, Glen I Langston wrote:
>> 
>> We’ve been making half hearted, repeatedly failed, attempts to get our code
>> running with 3.8.  There are just too many changes to figure them all out.
>>