Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MinGW install problem

[Don Ward]

Rob Walker wrote:

> I have a working version of GNU Radio 3.0.4 on a MinGW system and noticed 
> that new instructions had been posted for 3.1.2 so thought I'd give it a 
> shot but ran into the following problem when running the ./bootstrap 
> command just after the makefiles patch:
>
> $ ./bootstrap
> configure.ac:21 <http://configure.ac:21/> : error: Autoconf version 2.57 
> or higher is required
[...]
> I'm pretty sure I followed all the instructions up to that point and used 
> all the correct file versions, but when I did an "autoscan -V" I saw that 
> I have version 2.56 of autoconf.Can anyone help?

GNU Radio 3.1.2 requires several MSYS/MinGW packages that were not required 
by earlier releases.  You need the following:

- autoconf 2.59 (or later)
- automake 1.9.5 (or later)
- libtool 1.5 (or later)

These are available from the sourceforge MinGW/MSYS repository as 
autoconf-2.59-mingwPORT.tar.bz2, automake-1.9.5-mingwPORT.tar.bz2, and 
libtool-1.5.22-mingwPORT.tar.bz2.  To install these, download the files to 
/usr/src, unpack them with tar jxf, cd to the each unpacked directory, and 
build the package with "./mingwPORT.sh".

If you get "wget: command not found", you will first need to download 
wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.gz, unpack it with tar zxf, and copy 
mingwPORT/wget.exe to /usr/local/bin.

I also needed an extra step to work around a problem in automake:

aclocal_exe=`which aclocal`
sed s,C:/,/C/,g $aclocal_exe > aclocal.tmp
mv -f aclocal.tmp $aclocal_exe

You may need to repeat the above step, substituting "autoconf" for 
"aclocal".

You may need to start a new MSYS shell for the new versions of the above 
tools to be seen.

These added requirements are also required for building from the svn 
repository.  They are needed because the Windows versions of libtool do not 
know how to track interlibrary dependencies.

Let me know if these instructions work or if they need corrections.  When we 
get a set that works, I will add them to the wiki.

-- Don W.