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pothosware / SoapySDRPlay3

Soapy SDR plugin for SDRPlay APIv3
https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDRPlay3/wiki
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dll not recognized by Soapy (Windows 11) #63

Closed jmillo closed 1 year ago

jmillo commented 1 year ago

I am a newbie in installing stuff under Windows. I have a perfectly working gnuradio installation under Ubuntu and am trying to port it to Windows 11. To be able to use my RSP1A , I generated the .so under Linux and copied it in the directory where Soapy has it's modules and it worked at first try. On Windows, I tested the RSP1A with SDRUNo and it works. Under Windows, I used cmake and got a .sln file that created a release version (with Visual studio 2019 and 2022 ,both were identical) and copied the resulting .dll (sdrPlaySupport.dll) under SoapySDR/modules0.8 where the others are. Then I ran in the following problem:

(radioconda) C:\Users\Jean\SoapySDRPlay3\build>soapysdrutil --info ######################################################

Soapy SDR -- the SDR abstraction library

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Lib Version: v0.8.1-2 API Version: v0.8.0 ABI Version: v0.8 Install root: D:\Anaconda3\envs\radioconda\Library Search path: D:\Anaconda3\envs\radioconda\Library/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8 Module found: D:\Anaconda3\envs\radioconda\Library/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/airspyhfSupport.dll (0.2.0) Module found: D:\Anaconda3\envs\radioconda\Library/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/airspySupport.dll (0.2.0) Module found: D:\Anaconda3\envs\radioconda\Library/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/bladeRFSupport.dll (0.4.1) Module found: D:\Anaconda3\envs\radioconda\Library/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/HackRFSupport.dll (0.3.4) Module found: D:\Anaconda3\envs\radioconda\Library/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/LMS7Support.dll (22.09.0) Module found: D:\Anaconda3\envs\radioconda\Library/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/PlutoSDRSupport.dll (0.2.1) Module found: D:\Anaconda3\envs\radioconda\Library/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/remoteSupport.dll (0.5.2) Module found: D:\Anaconda3\envs\radioconda\Library/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/rtlsdrSupport.dll (0.3.0) Module found: D:\Anaconda3\envs\radioconda\Library/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/sdrPlaySupport.dll LoadLibrary() failed: The specified module could not be found.

Module found: D:\Anaconda3\envs\radioconda\Library/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/uhdSupport.dll (0.4.1) Available factories... airspy, airspyhf, bladerf, hackrf, lime, plutosdr, remote, rtlsdr, uhd Available converters...

(radioconda) C:\Users\Jean\SoapySDRPlay3\build>

Just to be sure, although I have the latest API, I tried the same trick with SoapySDRPlay (not 3) : same result.

There must be something very evident that escapes me. Can anybody help?

fventuri commented 1 year ago

@jmillo - I am not a Windows expert in the least (I too use Linux 99% of the time), but when I used the conda/radioconda installer for another piece of code I wrote (the GNU Radio OOT module 'gr-sdrplay3'), I found out that conda for Windows looks for DLLs only in a few folders (no matter what the environment variable PATH is set to):

so I had to copy the SDRplay API DLL ('sdrplay_api_dll') to one of those folders. This post that I wrote a while ago to the GNU Radio mailing list has some more details: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2022-03/msg00144.html

Hope this helps, Franco

jmillo commented 1 year ago

Thanks @fventuri , that was it sdrplay_api.dll was not visible.

I will also try your package.

Regards, J.M.