Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] macOS Sierra advice/recommendations (N210 + HackRF )

[Michael Dickens]

Hi Greg - Good to hear from another OS X GR user! I think 1-3 in your
list are pretty accurate; I'll add for 3 that it's easy to use MacPorts
to do development with GR, either directly inside MP or via OOT modules.
I'll add 4: from source! I use a mix of 3 and 4, which with the proper
CMake settings come together nicely. That said, it's always good to be a
script kitty/kiddie when using CMake & OOTs without installing the
latter ... getting libraries to link & load can be tweaky ... Hope this
helps! - MLD

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016, at 07:52 AM, Gregory Ratcliff wrote:
> Picked up my first ever OS X machine Friday.
> 
> I have had tons of success with various flavors of Linux with gnuradio (a
> massive shout out to the contributors!)
> 
> Now I see there are a half dozen paths to installing gnuradio on OS X,
> the big three I found are below.
> 
> Hopefully having a few answers all in one place may help others.
> 
> Situation:
> 
> Experienced programmer, however I feel like a script kitty digging into
> all that pybombs handles so well for me.
> 
> Question:
> 
> Please compare and tout the advantages each of these three below bring to
> a Mac user:
> 
> 1. Brew  > my observation is that brew is very Pybombs like 
> 2. Pip+Pybombs > It just works on Linux and OS X is mostly there
> 3. MacPorts. > Seems like I need to live in MacPorts land for cross
> platform and other development
> 4. What else?