edy555 / homebrew-bladerf

Homebrew formula for bladeRF

homebrew-bladerf

Installation

Tested on Mountain Lion 10.8 with Xcode 4.6.

• Prepare homebrew

  $ curl -fsSk https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go | ruby
  

• Install bladerf with brew

  $ brew tap edy555/bladerf
  $ brew install bladerf --HEAD
  

GNURadio and gr-osmosdr (optional)

• Install XQuartz

Download XQuartz installer XQuartz-2.7.4.dmg from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/, then install it.

• Install the python package prerequisites

  brew install python gfortran umfpack swig

• Install the prerequisite python packages

  pip install numpy scipy Cheetah lxml
  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/x11/lib/pkgconfig" pip install http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/matplotlib/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.1/matplotlib-1.1.1.tar.gz

• Before installing gnuradio, install wxmac 2.9 with python bindings

  brew install wxmac --python

  brew tap titanous/homebrew-gnuradio
  brew install gnuradio

• Create the ~/.gnuradio/config.conf config file for custom block support

  [grc]
  local_blocks_path=/usr/local/share/gnuradio/grc/blocks

• Install gr-osmosdr

  brew install gr-osmosdr --HEAD

Credit

• https://github.com/titanous/homebrew-gnuradio
• Homebrew formula for bladeRF is written by edy555 (TT)

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