Steps to successfully install srsGUI
2018-03-26
srsGUI is the graphic user interface (GUI) for srsLTE. There are some dependencies issues to be solved to make it.
About srsGUI
As mentioned in srsLTE - GitHub, srsGUI is an optional requirements for real time plotting. Today we are going to install it.
Steps
Certainly, one can follow the instructions on srsGUI website: srsLTE/srsGUI - GitHub.
Install boost
sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev
Install Qt4 and Qwt6
sudo apt-get install libqwt-dev libqt4-dev
Alternative approach (try the above one first)
- Download
Qwt6from the official website: Qwt User’s Guide. - Install libs to install
Qwt6:
sudo apt install libqt4-dev libqt4-dev-bin libqt4-opengl-dev libqtwebkit-dev qt4-linguist-tools qt4-qmake
- Install
Qwt6:
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qmake qwt.pro
make
sudo make install
Install srsGUI
If there is nothing missing, run:
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mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../
make
sudo make install
The printout of cmake is like:
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--
-- Configuring Boost C++ Libraries...
-- Boost version: 1.62.0
-- Found the following Boost libraries:
-- thread
-- unit_test_framework
-- system
-- chrono
-- date_time
-- atomic
-- Boost version: 106200
-- Boost include directories: /usr/include
-- Boost library directories: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
-- Boost libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_thread.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_unit_test_framework.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_chrono.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_date_time.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_atomic.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so
-- Found Qwt: /usr/lib/libqwt.so (found version "6.1.2")
-- srsGUI library will be installed.
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/Software/srsGUI/build
If you have missing package, it would be like
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--
-- Configuring Boost C++ Libraries...
-- Boost version: 1.62.0
-- Found the following Boost libraries:
-- thread
-- unit_test_framework
-- system
-- chrono
-- date_time
-- atomic
-- Boost version: 106200
-- Boost include directories: /usr/include
-- Boost library directories: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
-- Boost libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_thread.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_unit_test_framework.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_chrono.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_date_time.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_atomic.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - found
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN - not found
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS - not found
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC - not found
-- Found Qt4: /usr/bin/qmake (found version "4.8.7")
-- Could NOT find Qwt (missing: QWT_LIBRARY QWT_INCLUDE_DIR)
-- QT4 or Qwt6 not found. srsGUI library is not generated
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/Software/srsGUI/build
After we install srsGUI, we can build srsLTE again.
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