Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Building gnuradio with MinGW and Windows

[Don Ward]

Patrick Murphy wrote:

 I have built the gnuradio-3.0.2 tarball using MinGW under WinXP.  During this process, I encountered some issues that I thought I would be useful feedback for the GNU Radio development team.

- I didn’t bother to install tools to create HTML documentation files from XML files.  This causes an error when doing “make install” for 2 of the gnuradio packages:

   1) In the makefile for gnuradio-3.0.2/usrp/doc, an error occurs in the install-data-local rule (approx. line 755).  Since DOCBOOK_HTML_FILES is blank, the “for i in $(DOCBOOK_HTML_FILES)” statement causes a fatal error during “make install”.

   2) In the makefile for gnuradio-3.0.2/gr-trellis/doc, an error occurs in the install-data-local rule (approx. line 588).  Since HTML_FILES is blank, the “for i in $(HTML_FILES)” statement causes a fatal error during “make install”.

This is a problem with MSYS bash 2.04; bash 3.1 does not have this problem (at least not with MSYS 1.0.11).

- I have put together some detailed instructions and notes during this process, based on some existing info out there, and updated with current info.  I wouldn’t mind sharing this info.  Where should I put it?  On the wiki page at http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/WindowsInstall?  If so, do I add to the info already there, or edit it?  I’m a little hesitant to modify any info someone else added to the page.

WindowsInstall has an empty pointer to MingwInstallMain that I've been planning to work on.  I would be happy to have you do it or make it a joint effort.  (I have also been working on MinGW install issues, both for the tarball and SVN releases.)

 

-- Don Ward