Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to Share Modules with Coworkers

[Barry Duggan]

Hi Dylan,

I am a newbie to Gnuradio and GitHub, but since no one else has responded to 
your question yet, I offer the following suggestions:

The 'normal' approach for group development of a project (such as Gnuradio 
itself!) is to create a project on GitHub and then clone it to your local 
computer. Each developer then can push their changes back to the GitHub 
repository for merging / inclusion.
It sounds like your co-worker has the source code, so he/she should create the 
GitHub repository. Then you can clone it into your computer. That way, both of 
you have source code tracking of all changes you make. That’s much better than 
copying and pasting.

per Derek Kozel:
"Here's a git course that I really recommend. It says it takes 10 hours,
but I find most people go through much faster and most of the basics are
covered in the first 30 minutes or so. It does require registration but
is free.
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-git";
The course is only free for about a week, but that is long enough for you to 
complete it. GitHub also has lots of turorials and guides (free).

Gnuradio has lots of tutorials. One that paricularly applies to you is 
https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/OutOfTreeModules

I have only been working with Gnuradio for three months, but have learned LOTS 
by reading, experimenting, and asking lots of questions :)

If you don't want to put all your questions on this discussion group, feel free 
to write to me directly.

Best wishes,
Barry Duggan KV4FV

P.S. If you ‘reply all’, your response gets posted on Discuss-gnuradio as well 
as to me. If you just ‘reply’, it comes only to me.
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On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 22:54:01 +0000 (UTC), Dylan Overstreet wrote:

All,

My coworker has created a module (gr-Example) and I would like to import this 
module directly. How is this done?

I have a fresh install of GNU Radio Companion that I did via PyBombs on the 
RFNoC Getting Started page that packages RFNoC, GNU Radio, and UHD all in one 
download on my Ubuntu 16.04.5 system.

My attempt today involved gr_modtool newmod gr-Example, then copying and 
pasting my coworker's module into the created folder. I then navigated to the 
"build" folder and ran "cmake ../" followed by "sudo make install". This failed 
due to C++11 issues, which I fixed by modifying a CMake file. Then I failed in 
linking. I could not find -lgnuradio-runtime and -lgnuradio-pmt libraries.

Why can I not find these libraries? I tried removing these libraries from the 
files that use them and it will successfuly install. Then in GNU Radio 
Companion I can use the block. When I hit run I get an "Attribute Error: No 
object blockname found in Example" or something along those lines. I'm assuming 
this is due to me removing the libraries during linking? Any help would be 
great. Thank you for your time.