Hi Arie, well, as said, it's not that there is inherently no way to use SDRPlay with gr-osmosdr, but the license of the SDRPlay software makes it impossible to ship software doing that, so that option is disabled by default.
You're still free to build things yourself with that option enabled, but yes, you'd have to build it yourself, I don't see an easy way to give you what you want (though I certainly see it the other way around than you do – SDRPlay doesn't work with GNU Radio; that's not really GNU Radio's fault). It's currently much easier to build GNU Radio on Linux than on Windows, and Linux Mint should do quite fine (it's largely Ubuntu, and we test extensively against that). In fact, we have pretty much copy&pasteable command line instructions on how to do that. You'll need to install the SDRPlay closed source binary behorehand, and then change one file before you start the build process, but that should do it (haven't tested it, though). Best regards, Marcus On 01/13/2017 08:06 PM, Arie Kleingeld PA3A wrote: > Marcus, > > That is not good news. I'm not a software developper and 'API' and > 'DLL' sound like 'magic' words to me. > So as long as there's not a proper library for SDRPlay, gnuradio will > not work with this device. > > I also understand that GNUradio under Linux Mint will not work with > SDRplay either? > > Best regards, > Arie > > > Op 13-1-2017 om 19:30 schreef Marcus Müller: >> >> Hi Arie, >> >> ah, ok, now that we know where you've got your windows installation >> from: >> >> As far as I can read Geof's table, the gr-osmosdr component compiled >> into that package does *not* have SDRPlay support. One would need to >> re-build the library and link it against the SDRPlay API DLL to make >> it work. >> >> So unless you want to take the big dive and compile that gr-osmosdr >> DLL yourself (which I must admit I'd assume pretty much only Geof >> could help you with, as I'm absolutely no expert on the build process >> behind these binaries, I'm afraid), this won't work. >> >> As far as I understand (but I'm not a lawyer), the SDRPlay library is >> closed source and hence can't be linked to GPL code (like GNU Radio >> and gr-osmosdr) and then be distributed, so Geof's hands are tied here. >> >> Best regards, >> Marcus >> > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
