Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio release candidate 3.5.0rc0 available for download

[Svante Signell]

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 12:00 -0700, Ben Hilburn wrote:
> Svante -
> 
> 
> UHD is an entirely different project from GNURadio.  UHD provides the
> firmware & API for Ettus Research SDRs.  GNURadio has support for
> UHD-compatible devices, through gr-uhd, but they are different
> projects.  You can, in fact, install GNURadio without UHD, and use
> GNURadio with SDRs that are not USRPs, or without any actual hardware
> at all.
> 
> 
> If you have questions about using UHD with USRPs, you can get help
> from us on the USRP-Users
> list! http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com
> 
> 
> If you want to build GNURadio with the gr-uhd component, you will need
> to build and install UHD prior to building & installing GNURadio.  You
> didn't say what was keeping you from building UHD in your last e-mail,
> so I don't really have any information to help you yet.  If you still
> need help, send your error messages to the USRP-Users list, linked
> above, and we will do what we can to help you =)

I used git to download the uhd code and tried to build it. But I did not
succeed with autotools or cmake, se below. Additionally there does not
seem to be any Debian packages available. So building from source would
be the only option for now. I'll subscribe to USRP-Users mailing list if
needed.

Thanks!

>         Looking at the ettus webpage,
>         
>         http://code.ettus.com/redmine/ettus/projects/uhd/wiki
>         
>         there seems to be a separate git directory for the driver:
>      git clone git://code.ettus.com/ettus/uhd.git
...
>         However, I did not manage to build the driver either with
>         cmake or the autotools yet.