Build gnuradio on Raspberry Pi 3B+

Author: Barry Duggan
12 Sept 2019

OS: Raspbian Buster with desktop and recommended software
32GB microSD

A. Load prerequisites

sudo apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install git cmake g++ libboost-all-dev libgmp-dev swig python3-numpy
sudo apt-get install python3-mako python3-sphinx python3-lxml doxygen libfftw3-dev
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libgsl-dev libqwt-qt5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev python3-pyqt5
sudo apt-get install liblog4cpp5-dev libzmq3-dev python3-yaml
sudo apt-get install libpthread-stubs0-dev
sudo pip3 install click-plugins
sudo apt-get install python3-scipy

D. Set up swap file

sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

-   To make this permanent, add this line to /etc/fstab
/swapfile  none  swap  sw  0  0

C. Clone repository

cd
git clone --recursive https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio.git
git checkout maint-3.8

D. Build

cd ~/gnuradio
mkdir build
cd build
(this next command is all on one line, starting with cmake and ending with ../)
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr/local" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3 ../
make -j3
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig