[Discuss-gnuradio] New build structure! (Warning #2)

[Tom Rondeau]

Another big change is happening today! Josh Blum has make GNU Radio build using cmake, and we are hoping to switch over to it completely. The 'next' branch has just pulled in his changes, and we now have parallel build systems, cmake and autofoo. We are trying to make cmake the default build system, so we need people to start using it and testing as much as possible. For people who have issues using cmake, the autofoo stuff will still be there. The parallel build system will be in place official from 3.5. As of 3.6, we will have made a decision to move to cmake or stay with autotools; the other will be removed. It is expected that we will move to cmake, so this is a Warning to everyone that autotools is being deprecated as our build method.

Details about using cmake can be found here:

http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/CMakeWork

To summarizes:

$ cd gnuradio

$ git checkout next

$ git pull

$ mkdir build

$ cd build

$ cmake ../

$ make

$ make test

$ sudo make install

Again, if that fails but you really need to use the current next branch, the same autotools build process will work. Please let us know if you find any issues.

Thanks!

Tom