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

[Dave Borch]

Marcus,
Many thanks for giving it a shot.
Best regards,
Dave

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 9:25 AM Marcus Müller <marcus.mueller@ettus.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >>>