[Discuss-gnuradio] "conventional" installers

[Michael Dickens]

On Mar 8, 2011, at 11:12 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> My expectation is that eventually, there will be "conventional" installers 
> for Gnu Radio + UHD for Windows, Linux, and MacOS environments, and that 
> those installers will be kept fairly up-to-date with the development sources. 
>  But we're not there yet.

I did this once upon a time for Mac OS X (10.5, universal) and GRC (when it was 
still called that) using MacPorts to provide all of the dependencies -- it is 
-very- thorough in keeping itself separate from the OS, and so it uses internal 
versions of already-installed dependencies (e.g., libiconv, expat).  Even when 
removing as much cruft as I could, and compressing the resulting archive, the 
end-result file was some, IIRC, 900 MB.  Looking at 'du' for just what GNU 
Radio installed shows maybe 100 MB before compression -- so a LOT of "extra" 
space just for background stuff.  GRC did work as expected though ... ;)  I 
never made this install available, since it's just so address@hidden big.

I also tried to create a version, using special MacPorts scripts, that would 
use the OS-installed dependencies as much as possible.  Implementing this 
concept was much more difficult than expected, and I gave up a few days.  Seems 
like there has to be a way to do this "fewer dependency" version ...

Anyway, just know that these conventional installers will take work, primarily 
because of the dependencies issue. - MLD