Opinions on running GNU Radio 3.9+ on Windows

[Franco VENTURI]

I am the developer of the GNU Radio OOT module 'gr-sdrplay3' to support the SDRplay RSPs as native GNU Radio sources, and I received some inquiries about running it on Windows (I run Linux here and that's what I use for GNU Radio and other SDR applications).

Since I wrote that OOT module for GNU Radio 3.9+ (i.e. 3.9 and 3.10) because of the pybind11 bindings (no SWIG), I took a quick look at this page in the Wiki (https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/WindowsInstall), and I see that there are a few options:

- Geof Nieboer's binary installer for Windows (but it looks like there's only a version 3.9.0.0 beta, and the last commit to that GitHub repo was from about a year and a half ago)

- radioconda (latest release October of last year, GNU Radio version 3.9.3.0)

- Pothos SDR development environment (not sure of the version of GNU Radio there)

- various ways of building from source (MSYS, Cygwin, WSL)

Since I would like to give it a try and see if the 'gr-sdrplay3' OOT module can run on Windows (and perhaps package it somehow), I was wondering for those of you who are running on a daily basis a recent version (3.9+) of GNU Radio on Windows, what is the preferred option both in terms of day-to-day usage and development?

Thanks in advance,

Franco Venturi