Conda installation on Windows broken, both minconda & radioconda installer (Was: Please help out a new guy)

[Marcus Müller]

Good Morning!

I'm looping the mailing list back in, so that more people can look at it!

So, this looks generally pretty good; you have exactly one environment. But: that might 
mean when you said you were using miniforge, you might have installed things into the same 
environment, so that problems stemming from that might persist.

Hm; aside from trying to make a new environment, activating it and installing GNU Radio in 
there, my honest assessment is that I'm out of my conda depth!

I hope someone else on the list has a clever idea.

Best regards,
Marcus

On 29.02.24 14:54, Dave Borch wrote:
> Good morning, Marcus.
> Here is the result of my query:
>
> (base) C:\Users\Dave>conda info --envs
> # conda environments:
> #
> base                  *  C:\Users\Dave\radioconda
>
> Does this shed any light on the problem?
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 6:24 PM Marcus Müller <marcus.mueller@ettus.com> wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > welcome to the GNU Radio community! We certainly try to make it entry-friendly; 
> > and the
> > good news is that the errors you're seeing don't seem to be UNIX-related :)
> >
> > So, I'd have to guess a lot here, but the error you're describing could mean 
> > there's a
> > wrong version of a library being found – which is supporting, usually *conda 
> > installations
> > are quite self-contained!
> >
> > This is but a stab in the dark, but: Is it possible you set up radioconda, and 
> > used the
> > same conda prefix as you used for miniforge? Don't really understand how that 
> > would break,
> > but it's my best guess for now.
> >
> > Maybe there's multiple conda environments? Does `conda info --envs` say 
> > something to that end?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Marcus
> >
> > On 27.02.24 22:22, Dave Borch wrote:
> > > Friends,
> > > I'm brand new to Gnu Radio and haven't really used Unix for years. So
> > > please be patient with me here. I loaded Gnu Radio Companion onto my
> > > Windows 10 system and whenever I try to execute a flow graph involving
> > > any of the QT tools I get the following message:
> > >
> > > DLL load failed while importing qtgui_python: The specified procedure
> > > could not be found.
> > >
> > > Listed below are the packages that didn't load properly:
> > >
> > > Failed \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\
> > > Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\volk.dll
> > > Failed 
> > > \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\Qt5Gui_conda.dll
> > > Failed 
> > > \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\Qt5Gui_conda.dll
> > > Failed \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\icuuc73.dll
> > > Failed \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\icudt73.dll
> > > Failed \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\libomp.dll
> > >
> > > I get the same error whether I load radioconda using the radioconda
> > > installer from github or by using miniforge.
> > >
> > > Running Gnu Radio Companion on a laptop, also running Windows 10, I
> > > don't experience this problem. I don't experience the problem on my
> > > Raspberry Pi either.
> > >
> > > I'd be grateful for any help, and please direct me to the appropriate
> > > forum if I'm here in error.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dave