Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PS3 installation

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:41:29AM -0700, Walter Snel wrote:
> 
> Radio afficionados,
> 
> I'm trying to compile the normal gnu-radio trunk on the PS3. Unfortunately I
> run into an issue. 
> 
> I'd appreciate a pointer in the right direction. 
> 
> I used FC9, installed the cell SDK (3.0.0.1.0) and compiled the examples, so
> far, so good.
> 
> However, when compiling gnuradio I run into a compilation error in the gcell
> section. It indicates "ppu_intrinsics.h" is not found. On developerworks a
> similar question led to a reply indicating ppu-gcc instead of gcc should be
> used. Is this a known build issue ?
> 
> Any help is appreciated,
> Walter

To build on the PS3 and use gcell, you're going to need what we're
calling the "cross compilation environment", even though you're not
cross compiling :-)

Yes, you'll need to use ppu-g++ (or grab a copy of ppu_intrinsics.h
from somewhere and install it where we'll find it).

Please take a look at the configure-cell-cross shell script in the top
directory.  To avoid waiting forever for your compilations, I suggest
you cross compile from a typical x86 box.

  See http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/CrossCompilingForCell

Also, at least on x86 and x86_64 we've found that Fedora 9 is undesirable
because of the buggy version of g++ that they ship.  Our QA code
fails, and so does that of other projects.

Eric



> --------------------------------- compile error
> ---------------------------------
> /bin/sh ../../../../libtool --tag=CXX   --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -I. -I../../../..  -DOMNITHREAD_POSIX=1 -I/home/wsnel/trunk/omnithread
> -I/home/wsnel/trunk/mblock/src/lib  -I/home/wsnel/trunk/gcell/src/include     
>          
> -I/home/wsnel/trunk/gcell/src/lib/runtime              
> -I/home/wsnel/trunk/gcell/src/lib/general               
> -I/home/wsnel/trunk/gcell/src/lib/wrapper
> -I../../../../gcell/src/ibm/sync/ppu_source   -g -O2 -Wall
> -Woverloaded-virtual -pthread -MT gc_job_manager_impl.lo -MD -MP -MF
> .deps/gc_job_manager_impl.Tpo -c -o gc_job_manager_impl.lo
> gc_job_manager_impl.cc
>  g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../.. -DOMNITHREAD_POSIX=1
> -I/home/wsnel/trunk/omnithread -I/home/wsnel/trunk/mblock/src/lib
> -I/home/wsnel/trunk/gcell/src/include
> -I/home/wsnel/trunk/gcell/src/lib/runtime
> -I/home/wsnel/trunk/gcell/src/lib/general
> -I/home/wsnel/trunk/gcell/src/lib/wrapper
> -I../../../../gcell/src/ibm/sync/ppu_source -g -O2 -Wall
> -Woverloaded-virtual -pthread -MT gc_job_manager_impl.lo -MD -MP -MF
> .deps/gc_job_manager_impl.Tpo -c gc_job_manager_impl.cc  -fPIC -DPIC -o
> .libs/gc_job_manager_impl.o
> In file included from gc_job_manager_impl.cc:32:
> ../../../../gcell/src/ibm/sync/ppu_source/atomic_dec_if_positive.h:44:28:
> error: ppu_intrinsics.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from
> ../../../../gcell/src/ibm/sync/ppu_source/atomic_dec_if_positive.h:46,
>                  from gc_job_manager_impl.cc:32:
> --------------------------------- compile error
> ---------------------------------
> --