homebrew-gnuradio

This is a collection of Homebrew recipes that makes it easier get GNU Radio and friends running on OS X.

Installation

These steps have been tested on Lion 10.7.4 with Xcode 4.3.2 and Mountain Lion 10.8 with Xcode 4.4.1.

• Add this line to your profile (ie ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zshenv) and reload your shell (exec $SHELL)

  export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/share/python:$PATH

• Install the python package prerequisites

  brew install python gfortran umfpack swig

• Install the prerequisite python packages

  pip install numpy Cheetah lxml
  pip install https://github.com/scipy/scipy/tarball/v0.11.0rc2
  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

• Install gnuradio (add --with-qt for gr-qtgui)

  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

Optional (for gr-wxgui)

• Before installing gnuradio, install wxmac 2.9 with python bindings

  brew install wxmac --python

Optional (for rtl-sdr devices)

• Install rtlsdr and related blocks

  brew install rtlsdr gr-osmosdr gr-baz --HEAD