Running radioconda with MSYS2

[Price, Rodney D.]

I’ve installed radioconda 3.10.6.0 on a Windows 10 box, along with MSYS2 to give me a bash prompt with all the usual tools. I’d like to develop OOT modules in both python (3.10) and C++ (either gcc or clang). However, I’m beginning to wonder if this is possible with radioconda, since

 

$ gnuradio-config-info --cflags

C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Enterprise/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.29.30133/bin/HostX64/x64/c

l.exe:::/MD /O2 /Ob2 /DNDEBUG /DWIN32 /D_WINDOWS /W3

C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Enterprise/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.29.30133/bin/HostX64/x64/c

l.exe:::/MD /O2 /Ob2 /DNDEBUG -DHAVE_SNPRINTF  /DWIN32 /D_WINDOWS /W3 /GR /EHsc

 

which seems to imply that I have to use MS Visual Studio for C++ development. Is this true?

 

What if I stick to python only? Can that be done?

 

Second question: Running gr_modtool in the MSYS2 MINGW64 shell, I get

 

$ gr_modtool newmod tmp

ModToolException: Could not find gr-newmod source dir.

 

So I look for the sources, by running

 

$ gnuradio-config-info --prefix

 

There’s no response.  Then

 

$ gnuradio-config-info –-sysconfdir

etc

 

This is not helpful. Which ‘etc’ are we talking about?

 

Finally, after some digging, I find what appears to be the gr-newmod source directory, so I try

 

$ gr_modtool newmod --srcdir /c/Users/rdprice/Apps/radioconda/Library/share/gnuradio/modtool/templates/gr-newmod temp

Creating out-of-tree module in .\gr-temp...

Failed to copy .clang-format: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'share\\gnuradio\\clang-format.conf'

Done.

Use 'gr_modtool add' to add a new block to this currently empty module.

 

This is progress. Now I have a directory ‘gr-temp’ with subdirectories that look familiar. However, the fact that it can’t find clang-format.conf makes me think that I’m going to run into “No such file or directory” many more times. The file is there, in the place stated.

 

Suggestions? Should I give up on radioconda and try to compile gnuradio from source under mingw64 (shudder)?

 

Thanks,

-Rod

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