Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Quick Change to fusb_darwin

[Jan Schiefer]

Michael Dickens wrote:
> ps> Has anyone successfully gotten GNURadio (and thus background 
> libraries and includes) to install and execute on an Intel-Mac?  It 
> was good to see the note about ".align 4" versus ".align 16", so I 
> know that folks are making progress.  I hope to have access (remotely, 
> without USRP hardware) to an Intel-Mac soon and will start working my 
> way through the process.  I will update my install guide (2) with 
> advice once I get it working, but I certainly welcome advice from 
> others who have already done this or are in the process of doing it.
I am almost there and I'll send you my notes once I am a little further 
with the USRP. I tried a few examples without the USRP, and everything I 
tried showed signs of life. I am still working on the USRP part, and it 
is looking promising. As soon as I can pry the machine out of my wife's 
hands, I'll continue my quest.

The prerequisites weren't hard, the process I used for the wxPython 
libraries is somewhat questionable, but it appears to work. 
fftw-3-single didn't build from darwinports, and that's because the 
Portfile enables Altivec. Once I changed that, it built fine. Then 
there's the alignment issue in gnuradio-core, but that's pretty much all 
I had to do so far.

One question, do you have a pointer to a concise description of the USB 
problems? I'll be happy to test your fix for applicability to the Intel 
Macs.

Cheers,
   Jan