Re: Windows Installers 3.8.0.0 BETA Available

[Geof Nieboer]

OK thanks for the report.

We need a bit more information.  When you saw the executables "don't run",
can you give us some more detail?  When you run the GNURadio Command Prompt
from the Start Menu, what kind of error does it give?

If all you see are windows opening and closing, then go the "Program
Files/GNURadio-3.8/bin" directory and open a command prompt.  Then type
"run_gr.bat" and let us know what that outputs (it should just open another
window).
Then try "CALL run_gr.bat gnuradio-companion.py" and see what you get (it
should open GRC)

In most cases, the next steps would be to open python and start importing
modules to start narrowing down what's failing, which would be the same as
on linux.  Hopefully you'll be able to get some more detailed error
information in the console windows since they won't try to close on you.

Geof

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 7:37 PM Daniele Nicolodi  wrote:

> Hello Geof,
>
> I tried your binaries of GNURadio 3.8 on Windows 10 and they do not work
> for me. None of the executables run on my system: launching any of them
> nothing happens. I don't have much experience with developing
> applications on Windows, thus I don't know where to look to be able to
> report more useful information.
>
> The GNURadio 3.7 binaries work fine.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
>
> On 11-11-2019 19:07, Geof Nieboer wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > A BETA version of the windows 64-bit installer for GR3.8 is available
> > here http://www.gcndevelopment.com/gnuradio/index.htm
>
>
>
>

Re: Windows Installers 3.8.0.0 BETA Available

[Daniele Nicolodi]

Hello Geof,

I tried your binaries of GNURadio 3.8 on Windows 10 and they do not work
for me. None of the executables run on my system: launching any of them
nothing happens. I don't have much experience with developing
applications on Windows, thus I don't know where to look to be able to
report more useful information.

The GNURadio 3.7 binaries work fine.

Thank you.

Cheers,
Dan

On 11-11-2019 19:07, Geof Nieboer wrote:
> All,
> 
> A BETA version of the windows 64-bit installer for GR3.8 is available
> here http://www.gcndevelopment.com/gnuradio/index.htm

Re: Windows Installers 3.8.0.0 BETA Available

[Marcus Müller]

This is great news! Thank you, Geof!
On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 21:07 -0500, Geof Nieboer wrote:
> All,
> 
> A BETA version of the windows 64-bit installer for GR3.8 is available
> here (https://www.gcndevelopment.com/gnuradio/index.htm).  The top
> link is for the 3.7 version, beta 3.8 is the second link down from
> the top.
> 
> The good news is that this installer can be used side by side with
> the GR-3.7 installer.  While there may be minor issues where they
> overlap, i.e. shared per-user configuration files and
> overwritten shortcuts, generally one should be able to simultaneously
> install (and run) 3.7 and 3.8 installations on windows.  
> 
> The bad news; why a beta after GR-3.8 has been in release for a
> while?  Because many of the OOT blocks that were included in the
> installer in the past have either not been ported, or have been
> ported via fork.  gr-osmosdr is a critical one.  So this version may
> include OOT blocks that may be unstable or partially functional.  I
> have, however, found a version of gr-osmosdr that appears to be
> working so that was a key driver for the release.
> 
> While several OOT blocks have not been included, I have added the
> following: gr-soapy and SoapySDR and AirSpyHF drivers (both untested
> due to lack of hardware).  Also, this version still uses Python 2.7. 
> As mentioned in another email thread, once we have a good stable
> version of GR3.8 w/ py2.7, then I focus on the python3 upgrade.  I'm
> actually looking forward to that as everything will be using standard
> compilers and there should be an immense simplification of the build
> process.  I also hope to be able to add some of the new blocks that
> have been built recently as well.
> 
> Another minor fix is the removal of a environment variable assignment
> that was causing nuisance warnings about duplicate blocks on GRC
> startup.
> 
> Enjoy and please send feedback.  I have not yet pushed all the script
> changes to the github repo, so do not expect to be able to build 3.8
> at this point straight out of the gate with them.  Also, I'm not
> releasing Debug and AVX2 optimized versions while in beta.  I'm not
> sure if anyone is actually using these, so if these options are
> something you'd like to continue to see, please let me know. 
> Otherwise I'm thinking about scrubbing them out when I do the py3
> upgrade.
> 
> Geof