Re: GNU Radio on Mac M1

[Ryan Volz]

Hi Rod,

I think your experience is common, unfortunately, and part of the 
problem is that there are multiple bugs to work through and not all of 
them are necessarily with GRC itself. There are multiple dimensions in 
which things are failing (new vs. old macOS version, switch to arm64, 
standard DPI display vs. high DPI [Retina] display), so providing as 
many details about your system as you can would be helpful. As the 
person putting out the conda packages, it saddens me that I haven't been 
able to sort through enough of the bugs to get something working for people.

So, what particular issues are you seeing with the conda install? There 
are a few bugs tagged for "Mac OS X" on the GNU Radio Github: do any of 
those apply?

One thing a recent report has brought to my attention is a possible bug 
in conda-forge's cairo package. If you're seeing crashes that might have 
to do with cairo (e.g. GRC crashes), you could try installing a patched 
cairo package that I have available on my channel:

conda install -c ryanvolz/label/bigsur-patch cairo

Cheers,
Ryan

On 5/23/22 12:33 PM, Price, Rodney D. wrote:
> I’ve been trying to get a good install of GNU Radio on a Mac M1 (ARM64) 
> running Monterey, using several methods. I’ve tried installing via 
> Homebrew, which gave me an install that crashed GRC constantly. I’ve 
> tried conda install (I have miniconda installed) without success. My 
> latest attempt is with Macports, which gives me a working GRC, but when 
> I attempt to run cmake in the OOT module source, cmake can’t find 
> GrSwig, so I go online to find a GrSwig.cmake, which then leads to 
> another error on LIBTOOL.
>
> This is not to complain, but I would really like to avoid going down 
> some rabbit hole on an install that in the end, just won’t work. 
> Macports’ gnuradio is version 3.8, and I would like something more up to 
> date. Playing nicely with conda would be nice as well.
>
> So I’m asking for advice on the current state of GNU Radio on Macs with 
> the Apple ARM chip. Have others been able to get a working install of 
> GNU Radio on this system? What’s the current best approach for 3.9 or 3.10?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Rod
>
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