Re: Windows Installer for GR 3.8.2 Just In Time!

[Marcus Müller]

Hi Geof,

That's awesome! Thank you for all the effort you put into this, and for all the 
doors you
open with this.

Releasing and packaging 3.8 will be with us for quite a while; I mean, clearly, 
we
wouldn't be calling our branches maint-3.Something if they weren't meant as 
longer-term
maintenance release branches; and clearly, nobody is expecting 100% GNU Radio 
market share
by end of January, either :)

I see a couple of new PRs against maint-3.8 [1], and I'd like to do another 
3.8-series
release, soon, too, soon as we've merged these. I think we've got enough bugs 
to fix :)

Best regards,
Marcus

[1] 
https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+base%3Amaint-3.8

On 19.01.21 02:23, Geof Nieboer wrote:
> All,
> 
> To celebrate the release of GR 3.9, I'm releasing a Python3-based Windows 
> Installer for GR
> 3.8.2* !
> 
> Download it here
> <http://www.gcndevelopment.com/gnuradio/downloads/installers/v3.8.2.1/gnuradio_3.8.2.0_win64.msi>.
> 
> This uses vcpkg to build (nearly*) all the C++ dependencies, and as mentioned 
> in an
> earlier email, uses standard pip with Python 3.9 to install the GR python 
> dependencies as
> well.
> 
> It includes several commonly used SDR drivers; UHD, rtl-sdr, SoapySDR, 
> HackRF, BladeRF,
> and airspy, with most wrapped in the gr-osmosdr package.
> 
> In addition it includes the popular gqrx application and the gr-fosphor 
> blocks.
> 
> As with previous installers, gr-3.7 and gr-3.8 can be installed side by side, 
> and the same
> will apply to gr-3.9 when released.
> 
> *Caveats: Technically it's not the 3.8.2 release, it's the head of maint-3.8 
> to include
> several important fixes.
> Also, vcpkg worked fine, except for gobject-introspection.  While I have a 
> solid idea what
> the problem is, it wasn't worth delaying the release so did a bit of manual 
> magic outside
> the scripts to get gtk properly copied over.
> 
> Known Bugs: flowgraphs that include a gr-fosphor sink crash on when the 
> flowgraph is closed.
> 
> Enjoy!  Now that a GR 3.9 release is out and the scripts have been updated, 
> expect a GR
> 3.9 installer soon (or at least a minimum pull requests submitted...)
> 
> Geof
> 
> 
>