Ryan,
Thanks for your reply. I looked through the Mac OS X bug reports and didn't see
anything that looked relevant to my case. The problem isn't necessarily
connected to GRC. The Macports install seems to be missing some essential cmake
files (i.e. GrSwig and dependencies). The conda install would be preferable,
anyway. I'm beginning to wonder about m=y miniconda install: I have found
multiple Python installs around my system, and after removing all my homebrew
packages and replacing some with macports versions, I wonder if the Python
libraries that GNU Radio uses might not be the ones that GNU Radio expects. I'm
considering removing miniconda and replacing it with radioconda. What do you
think? Is that likely to work on a Mac?
Thanks,
-Rod
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From: Ryan Volz [mailto:ryan.volz@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2022 11:21 AM
To: Price, Rodney D.; discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: GNU Radio on Mac M1
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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