Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Compatibility with Mac OS X

[Michael Dickens]

Hi Jeon - I maintain GNU Radio / Volk / UHD within MacPorts, and they generally work on OS X 10.8 through 10.11; I know of folks using than on 10.6/7, and I believe they can be coerced into working on 10.5 (Intel or PPC). There are issues here and there, such as that ControlPort doesn't really work (Thrift issues on OS X), and sometimes the UHD interface needs updating between UHD and gr-uhd (rebuilding in the correct order takes care of this). A few users have issues with GRC on 10.11 that I don't experience & we're working on debugging them. I'm not sure what you mean by that GR is "not ready for Retina display" ... I've used a MacBook Pro retina 15" since 2012 & never had issues except with using Qt for a while back in 2012-3; I think we fixed that bug in MacPorts's Qt4 install (but, I might be wrong; it's kinda old now). I know of others who install GR via HomeBrew, and I'd be curious hear from them as to how well it functions -- both "make test" as well as actual runtime & GRC. Good luck! - MLD

 

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015, at 08:05 AM, Jeon wrote:

With some struggles, I've finally installed GNU Radio (from the source) on Mac OS X 10.11 El Captian.

Lots of things including Python and UHD were installed via Homebrew.

Thrift for ControlPort, this is installed from the source. 

Some quick test,

1. make test

It says 4 among 201 tests failed:

qa_test_all

   qa_polar_decoder_sc

    qa_polar_decoder_sc_list

    qa_polar_encoder

The rest of the tests, all passed.

2. uhd_usrp_probe

I can successfully probe USRP N210 with one LFTX and one LFRX.

3. gnuradio-companion

I can execute gnuradio-companion.

Although it's not ready for Retina display, that's okay. I don't care.

(But, I didn't run some flow graphs, yet.)

Then, I think GNU Radio will work fine in the most of cases.

However, I still wonder if there is a case that GNU Radio fails to run on Mac OS X 10.11.

If someone having trouble with Mac OS X El Capitan, I'd like to hear your case.

*Problems of OOT modules are not my concern