Conda installation on Windows broken, both minconda & radioconda installer (Was: Please help out a new guy)

Good Morning!

I'm looping the mailing list back in, so that more people can look at it!

So, this looks generally pretty good; you have exactly one environment. But: that might
mean when you said you were using miniforge, you might have installed things into the same
environment, so that problems stemming from that might persist.

Hm; aside from trying to make a new environment, activating it and installing GNU Radio in
there, my honest assessment is that I'm out of my conda depth!

I hope someone else on the list has a clever idea.

Best regards,
Marcus

On 29.02.24 14:54, Dave Borch wrote:
> Good morning, Marcus.
> Here is the result of my query:
>
> (base) C:\Users\Dave>conda info --envs
> # conda environments:
> #
> base * C:\Users\Dave\radioconda
>
> Does this shed any light on the problem?
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 6:24 PM Marcus Müller <marcus.mueller@ettus.com> wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> welcome to the GNU Radio community! We certainly try to make it entry-friendly; and the
>> good news is that the errors you're seeing don't seem to be UNIX-related :)
>>
>> So, I'd have to guess a lot here, but the error you're describing could mean there's a
>> wrong version of a library being found – which is supporting, usually *conda installations
>> are quite self-contained!
>>
>> This is but a stab in the dark, but: Is it possible you set up radioconda, and used the
>> same conda prefix as you used for miniforge? Don't really understand how that would break,
>> but it's my best guess for now.
>>
>> Maybe there's multiple conda environments? Does `conda info --envs` say something to that end?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Marcus
>>
>> On 27.02.24 22:22, Dave Borch wrote:
>>> Friends,
>>> I'm brand new to Gnu Radio and haven't really used Unix for years. So
>>> please be patient with me here. I loaded Gnu Radio Companion onto my
>>> Windows 10 system and whenever I try to execute a flow graph involving
>>> any of the QT tools I get the following message:
>>>
>>> DLL load failed while importing qtgui_python: The specified procedure
>>> could not be found.
>>>
>>> Listed below are the packages that didn't load properly:
>>>
>>> Failed \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\
>>> Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\volk.dll
>>> Failed \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\Qt5Gui_conda.dll
>>> Failed \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\Qt5Gui_conda.dll
>>> Failed \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\icuuc73.dll
>>> Failed \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\icudt73.dll
>>> Failed \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\libomp.dll
>>>
>>> I get the same error whether I load radioconda using the radioconda
>>> installer from github or by using miniforge.
>>>
>>> Running Gnu Radio Companion on a laptop, also running Windows 10, I
>>> don't experience this problem. I don't experience the problem on my
>>> Raspberry Pi either.
>>>
>>> I'd be grateful for any help, and please direct me to the appropriate
>>> forum if I'm here in error.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave
>>>