Re: Success : Build OOT module for conda install

Hi Ryan,

thank you very much for your support.

My module is available at https://github.com/dl5eu/gr-dl5eu.


Am 30.01.2025 um 18:03 schrieb Ryan Volz:
> Hi Ralf,
>
> Do you have your code/packaging publicly available somewhere that I
> can look at? I'd be happy to support your aims of making a package
> available for others to use, even to the point of including it in the
> next radioconda release if that's appropriate.
>
> I think there's potentially a couple problems that you're running into.
>
> 1. The package that you've created still has issues (e.g. finding the
> module blocks). This is where seeing exactly what you're doing can
> help me to debug.
> 2. You're building on Linux and want to also create a Windows package.
> This is where you would probably need to take advantage of public
> build infrastructure to make your package, after you've got it working
> locally.
>
> What I do to solve (2) is either make a package for conda-forge
> (preferred) or build the packages out of a GitHub repository using
> GitHub Actions CI. You can find examples of the latter in the
> "radioconda" organization:
>
> https://github.com/radioconda
>
> Particularly, these are OOT modules with repositories containing a
> .conda directory with packaging information. See e.g. my gr-radar
> repository for a concrete example:
>
> https://github.com/radioconda/gr-radar/tree/conda/.conda
>
> Cheers,
> Ryan
>
> On 1/30/25 11:25 AM, Ralf Gorholt wrote:
>> Hey Marcus,
>>
>> I know, but I normally prefer asking only questions that I really can't
>> answer myself and when I find the solution after having asked the
>> question I can imagine that some of you might find this annyoing :-)
>>
>> However, I still have a problem with my module. On my Linux system
>> everything is fine. cmake config, build and install works. Unfortunately
>> friends of mine that would like to test it are "Windows only" and need
>> something simple to install. That's the reason why I need a package for
>> a conda environment, preferably radioconda, because radioconda contains
>> all necessary packages out-of-the-box.
>>
>> My module now builds on miniforge3 (with conda-build) and I can install
>> it in a freshly installed radioconda environment on a different PC.
>> However, when I start the flowgraph, I get an error message telling me
>> that the block(s) in my module cannot be found:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "C:\Projekte\GNURadio\dvbt_rx_rtlsdr.py", line 409, in <module>
>>      main()
>>    File "C:\Projekte\GNURadio\dvbt_rx_rtlsdr.py", line 387, in main
>>      tb = top_block_cls()
>>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>    File "C:\Projekte\GNURadio\dvbt_rx_rtlsdr.py", line 273, in __init__
>>      self.dl5eu_dvbt_tps_decoder_0 = dl5eu.dvbt_tps_decoder(dtv.T2k,
>> True)
>>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> AttributeError: module 'gnuradio.dl5eu' has no attribute
>> 'dvbt_tps_decoder'
>>
>> The same applies to the second block in my module.
>>
>> Perhaps someone who has experience with (radio)conda on Windows can give
>> me a hint? I hesitate to delete and reinstall my development environment
>> and start from scratch ;-)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>> Am 30.01.2025 um 16:02 schrieb Marcus Müller:
>>> Hey Ralf,
>>>
>>> don't apologize for asking the mailing list! That's desirable, and
>>> especially explaining what you did to resolve the issue makes the
>>> mailing list more valuable every day. Thank you!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Marcus
>>>
>>> On 1/28/25 8:32 PM, Ralf Gorholt wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> once again (sorry for that), please ignore my previous emails.
>>>>
>>>> After having cleaned up everything properly I can build my module
>>>> package now. Strange, there must have been something left from my
>>>> previous attempts to build the module somewhere in my gnuradio
>>>> environment in conda that prevented conda from building the package
>>>> correctly.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ralf
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>