Building CubicSDR for Linux¶

Basic build support (Debian)¶

$ sudo apt-get install git build-essential automake cmake

Basic dependencies (Debian)¶

$ sudo apt-get install libpulse-dev libgtk-3-dev

If you did not install your own OpenGL driver/headers (via Nvidia, AMD binaries or other) this will bring in the appropriate libs and headers:

$ sudo apt-get install freeglut3 freeglut3-dev

Build and install SoapySDR¶

$ git clone https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR.git
$ cd SoapySDR
SoapySDR$ mkdir build
build$ cd build
build$ cmake ../ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
build$ make -j4
build$ sudo make install
build$ sudo ldconfig
build$ SoapySDRUtil --info #test SoapySDR install

Build and install liquid-dsp¶

$ git clone https://github.com/jgaeddert/liquid-dsp
liquid-dsp$ cd liquid-dsp
liquid-dsp$ ./bootstrap.sh
liquid-dsp$ ./configure --enable-fftoverride
liquid-dsp$ make -j4
liquid-dsp$ sudo make install
liquid-dsp$ sudo ldconfig

Build static wxWidgets¶

Note: replace ‘~/Develop/wxWidgets-staticlib’ with your own path if you prefer, remember it to be used later when building CubicSDR.

$ wget https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.1.0/wxWidgets-3.1.0.tar.bz2
[ downloading.. ]
$ tar -xvjf wxWidgets-3.1.0.tar.bz2
[ unpacking.. ]
$ cd wxWidgets-3.1.0/
wxWidgets-3.1.0$ mkdir -p ~/Develop/wxWidgets-staticlib
wxWidgets-3.1.0$ ./autogen.sh
wxWidgets-3.1.0$ ./configure --with-opengl --disable-shared --enable-monolithic --with-libjpeg --with-libtiff --with-libpng --with-zlib --disable-sdltest --enable-unicode --enable-display --enable-propgrid --disable-webkit --disable-webview --disable-webviewwebkit --prefix=`echo ~/Develop/wxWidgets-staticlib` CXXFLAGS="-std=c++0x" --with-libiconv=/usr

[ configuring.. ]

wxWidgets-3.1.0$ make -j4 && make install

[ building and installed to ~/Develop/wxWidgets-staticlib in this example ]

Build CubicSDR¶

Note: add -DUSE_HAMLIB=1 to cmake command line to include hamlib support.

$ git clone https://github.com/cjcliffe/CubicSDR.git
CubicSDR$ cd CubicSDR
CubicSDR$ mkdir build
CubicSDR$ cd build
build$ cmake ../ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DwxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE=~/Develop/wxWidgets-staticlib/bin/wx-config
build$ make
# You can now run the build from the folder, note if you're on 32-bit linux it will be in x86/
build$ cd x64/
x64$ ./CubicSDR

Install CubicSDR (and launcher)

build$ sudo make install

Un-install CubicSDR

build$ sudo make uninstall

Support Modules¶

SoapyRTLSDR¶

$ sudo apt-get install librtlsdr-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyRTLSDR.git
$ cd SoapyRTLSDR
SoapyRTLSDR$ mkdir build
SoapyRTLSDR$ cd build
build$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
build$ make
build$ sudo make install
build$ sudo ldconfig
# should now show RTL-SDR device if connected
build$ SoapySDRUtil --probe

SoapySDRPlay¶

Note: requires API from http://sdrplay.com/linux.html to be installed first. ** Also note that the SoapySDRPlay installer will at present time install an earlier SoapySDR binary – please re-run ‘sudo make install’ for your SoapySDR build folder to update to the build version after installing.

$ git clone https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDRPlay.git
$ cd SoapySDRPlay
SoapySDRPlay$ mkdir build
SoapySDRPlay$ cd build
build$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
build$ make
build$ sudo make install
build$ sudo ldconfig
build$ SoapySDRUtil --probe

Always ensure to update, build and install SoapySDR before building dependent projects.

Ubuntu 15.10 Note:¶

If you’ve installed a graphics driver that includes OpenGL and your libGL.so currently points to an invalid mesa/libGL.so you may get a compiler error:

make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so', needed by 'x64/CubicSDR'.  Stop.

Checking the link should reveal that it’s pointing at a deleted file:

$ ls -lah /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct  9 01:16 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so -> mesa/libGL.so

To fix the link first remove the old one:

$ sudo rm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so

Then check where libGL.so.1 is pointing:

$ ls -lah /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Dec 20 19:03 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.358.16

And create a new link to the same location:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.358.16 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so