GNURadio prebuilt packages for Raspberry Pi on Archlinux armv6h

Intro

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To install GNURadio on Raspberry Pi(archlinux armv6h), you just need to

yaourt -S gnuradio

but gnuradio needs libuhd which takes almost 5 hours to compile.

So I give my prebuilt packages.

How to compile

There are two methods. One is cross-compile(thanks to [email protected]) , the other is compiling on rpi directly. Herein, we give the direct compiling details.

To compile all packages by yourself on your raspberry pi :

Resize your raspberry pi to full SD card

• fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

• p to see the current start of the main partition

• d, 2 to delete the main partition

• n p 2 to create a new primary partition, next you need to enter the start of the old main partition and then the size (enter for complete SD card)

• w write the new partition table

• reboot

• resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

Make swap

If you don't add swap partition for raspberry pi, errors like "unexpected }" will occur during compilation because of lacking of memory.

swapoff
swapoff -a
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/myswap bs=1024 count=800k
mkswap /myswap
free -h
swapon /myswap
free -h

Compile for long long time

pacman -S file base-devel abs
pacman -S yaourt
yaourt -Syy
yaourt -S gnuradio

Tips:

You need to add arch "armv6h" to PKGBUILD file

or

makepkg --asroot -Acs libuhd
makepkg --asroot -Acs gnuradio

Packages

libuhd

Provide libuhd-3.5.1-2-armv6h.pkg.tar.xz for raspberry pi (archlinuxarm)

pacman -U libuhd-3.5.1-2-armv6h.pkg.tar.xz 

Thanks to [email protected]. He provided a newer version libuhd-3.5.2-1-armv6h.pkg.tar.xz for raspberry pi (archlinuxarm)

GNURadio

Compiling for about 48hours.

    -- ######################################################
    -- # Gnuradio enabled components
    -- ######################################################
    --   * python-support
    --   * testing-support
    --   * volk
    --   * gruel
    --   * gnuradio-core
    --   * gr-fft
    --   * gr-filter
    --   * gr-atsc
    --   * gr-audio
    --   * gr-analog
    --   * gr-digital
    --   * gr-noaa
    --   * gr-pager
    --   * gr-trellis
    --   * gr-uhd
    --   * gr-utils
    --   * gr-vocoder
    --   * gr-fcd
    --   * gr-wavelet
    --   * gr-blocks
    --
    -- ######################################################
    -- # Gnuradio disabled components
    -- ######################################################
    --   * doxygen
    --   * sphinx
    --   * gnuradio-companion
    --   * gr-comedi
    --   * gr-qtgui
    --   * gr-shd
    --   * gr-video-sdl
    --   * gr-wxgui

when using the default PKGBUILD file, I came across an error as followings:

[ 11%] Building C object gnuradio-core/src/lib/CMakeFiles/gnuradio-core.dir/filter/dotprod_fff_armv7_a.c.o
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:27: Error: selected FPU does not support instruction -- `vmov.f32 q8,#0.0'
{standard input}:28: Error: selected FPU does not support instruction -- `vmov.f32 q9,#0.0'
{standard input}:31: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `vld1.32 {d0,d1,d2,d3},[r0]!'
{standard input}:32: Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `vld1.32 {d4,d5,d6,d7},[r1]!'
{standard input}:33: Error: selected FPU does not support instruction -- `vmla.f32 q8,q0,q2'
{standard input}:34: Error: selected FPU does not support instruction -- `vmla.f32 q9,q1,q3'
{standard input}:36: Error: selected FPU does not support instruction -- `vadd.f32 q8,q8,q9'
{standard input}:37: Error: selected processor does not support ARMmode `vpadd.f32 d0,d16,d17'
make[2]: *** [gnuradio-core/src/lib/CMakeFiles/gnuradio-core.dir/filter/dotprod_fff_armv7_a.c.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [gnuradio-core/src/lib/CMakeFiles/gnuradio-core.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

so I change the build() function within PKGBUILD file like this:

cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=$(which python2)\
      -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=$(echo /usr/include/python2*) DPYTHON_LIBRARY=$(echo /usr/lib/libpython2.*.so) \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -Dhave_mfpu_neon=0 \
      -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="-march=armv6 -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard" \
      -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING="-march=armv6 -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard" \
      ../

seems work fine.

rtl-sdr

have prebuilt package in pacman, just

pacman -S rtl-sdr

gr-osmosdr-git

yaourt -G gr-osmosdr-git

then change PKGBUILD file, add armv6h arch

arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv6h')

then makepkg

makepkg -As --asroot

gr-air-modes

pacman -S python2-numpy python2-scipy
yaourt -G gr-air-modes-git

then change PKGBUILD file, add armv6h arch, and change depends python to python2 so that you needn't to install python3

arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv6h')
depends=('gnuradio' 'python2' 'gr-osmosdr-git' 'libuhd' 'sqlite' 'cmake')

comment out this line in file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/air_modes/__init__.py in order not to import PyQt4 in poor RPi.

from az_map import *

then enjoy :D

modes_rx --gain=60 --output-all --rtlsdr --kml=xxx.kml

their relationship map:

    libuhd
      |
    gnuradio      	rtl-sdr
      |                |
       --- gr-osmosdr--
               |
               |
           gr-air-modes

gpsd

pacman -S gbluez gpsd 

chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB0 # or gpsd will complain: gpsd:ERROR: /dev/ttyUSB0: device activation failed.

gpsd -N -D5 /dev/ttyUSB0
cgps