How to build & install SoapySDR on Windows?

[eabase]

Looking at the page:
https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki/BuildGuide

Say that:

add C:\Program Files\SoapySDR\bin to the %PATH%

But:
cmake --build my_build_dir --config Release --target install

actually installs into the x86 directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\SoapySDR

How to build SoapySDR on Windows?

What is the optional swig dependency used for?
(How should that be installed?)

I also suggest to fix these to prevent deprecation warnings:

# grep "cmake_minimum_required" CMakeLists.txt

ExampleDriver/CMakeLists.txt:5:cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)
luajit/CMakeLists.txt:4:cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1.0)
swig/csharp/apps/CMakeLists.txt:1:cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3.0)
swig/python/CMakeLists.txt:4:cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3)
CMakeLists.txt:4:cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3.0)

[eabase]

BUMP

How do install the python package after compilation?
(Where is it?)

Seem #442 could be of interest as well.

[eabase]

Ok, managed to build the optional SoapyRTLSDR, here:
pothosware/SoapyRTLSDR#79

Sort of works...but need more testing. (How?)

Does anyone, know how I can test this?

[zuckschwerdt]

rx_sdr from https://github.com/rxseger/rx_tools should work as test tool for any SoapySDR module.

[eabase]

They don't have any binary releases and the compile fails. 💩
rxseger/rx_tools#105

[eabase]

BTW. Where exactly is the code that does the Python package installation?

[zuckschwerdt]

Where exactly is the code that does the Python package installation?

SoapySDR/swig/python/CMakeLists.txt

Lines 137 to 145 in 6e99da1

	install(
	TARGETS ${SWIG_MODULE_SoapySDR${PYTHON_VERSION}_REAL_NAME}
	DESTINATION ${PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR}
	)
	install(
	FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/SoapySDR.py
	DESTINATION ${PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR}
	)

[eabase]

@zuckschwerdt
That is not very helpful.

How and where do I do pip install ... to get this package to show up in my pip list?

[zuckschwerdt]

I don't think that SoapySDR is on pypi, so no pip. You just get the swig module and wrapper .py installed to the Python dir.

[eabase]

You just get the swig module and wrapper .py installed to the Python dir.

That's not how it works AFAIK. So how would you import into your python code? If it's not available by the package manager, you can't import (as you suggest in all the example code), with import SoapySDR.

If it's not in pypi, you would (typically) just go to the project directory and do pip install . But that require that you have at least the minimal setup.py (and setup.cfg) and/or pyproject.toml files configured. And you guys don't have any!

• https://betterscientificsoftware.github.io/python-for-hpc/tutorials/python-pypi-packaging/
• https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/writing-pyproject-toml/

[zuckschwerdt]

I didn't write any (Python) example code, sorry. I never used the Python bindings. To my understanding you can either install a package from a registry (pypi) or local source (setup.py) -- or just dump the files somewhere into Python's search path.