Closed guruofquality closed 1 year ago
What I would like is an env variable where you can add a search path/paths. This is very useful for plugin development, ie. Gstreamer has GST_PLUGIN_PATH that you can set to your build directory.
yes: https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/blob/master/lib/Modules.in.cpp#L141 SOAPY_SDR_PLUGIN_PATH
I had the same concern and I found out by looking at the code, but then before updating the wiki I found out this issue.
I don't know what's the policy for updating the wiki.
Specifically I would add in the section https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki#plugin-architecture something like
Via the environment variable `SOAPY_SDR_PLUGIN_PATH` it is possible to specify custom alternative
search paths for installed modules.
(e.g. `export SOAPY_SDR_PLUGIN_PATH=~/workspace/SoapyRemote/build/install_here/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8`)
I don't know what's the policy for updating the wiki
Go for it :-) Sounds good to me
The goal: To make it easier for 3rd parties to install hardware support modules and to have them loaded automatically at runtime: