Any one else thinking about trying to compile gnu radio with Windows 10 bash ?
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Beginning to look like I may be able to wash my hands clean of Linux forever
Well, not really if you think about it because even though Windows would be the bare metal OS you're using, it's still Linux for such development purposes.
I won't get into the whole "free software" debate but suffice to say that this is working on Ubuntu Linux - from what I understand it Ubuntu is not considered a "GNU/Linux" derivative even though it's heritage comes from Debian Linux originally.
The entire idea of creating labels inside of labels inside of names inside of labels to me is ridiculous but that's another thread entirely so I'll just say it's Ubuntu and be done with it.
And here's a video that really gets into the dirty nitty gritty details if you must know it all:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/C906
Great, thanks for that. It pretty well answers everything I wanted to know. The application is a full install of Ubuntu without the Linux kernel (the calls are handled by the Windows kernel).
Back to compiling...
Why compile? Since it's Ubuntu, you can just install Gnu radio using the apt-get command. https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/InstallingGR
Plus, Windows 10 bash is beta and I'd be willing to bet that there are many libraries that the compiler needs that are missing.
My first reaction is you might be able to get GNURadio compiled, sure, but executing it won't happen because the whole subsystem in use by bash on Windows 10 is purely command line/console based, it won't execute anything that requires some kind of GUI which GNURadio does - I read someplace the other day that someone discovered some X11 functionality but even so that's just not going to do it, especially not at this early point in the development of this stuff on Windows 10.
Perhaps in the future we'll see something happen but I'm not going to put any money on GNURadio fully working as expected anytime soon, nor OP25 for that matter which is what I'd be interested in for myself.
All those errors in the picture above that reference gtk are attempts to get a GUI working and as just stated that's not part of bash on Windows 10, at least not yet.