Re: Questions to set up Gnuradio for windows WSL

It's been a while, but I believe I had this working for an Ettus B205 USB device using the directions found here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/connect-usb

I assume it should work for the HackRF also.

The latest versions of WSL2 now have built-in graphics and audio support through wslg.  In my very limited testing I found audio to be a little choppy but YMMV.

Tony

On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM George Edwards <gedwards.eng@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear GNURadio Community,

In the past I had a GNURadio binary running on Windows and was able to access the HackRF hardware via the USB port to Tx/Rx signals. The problem is I could not build OOT modules. I bought a new Windows PC recently and wish to build OOT modules for GNURadio on it and I read that Windows WSL will do the trick, here are my questions:

Q1. Which is best: WSL1 or WSL2 (I read this is like a Virtual Machine)? 

Q2. Running inside WSL1 or WSL2, will I be able to access the USB port directly as before (to Rx/Tx signals via HackRF)?

Thank you!

George