homebrew-gnuradio

This is a collection of Homebrew recipes that makes it easier get GNU Radio and friends running on OS X.

Installation

These steps have been tested on Yosemite 10.10.4 with Xcode 6.4

• Add this line to your profile (ie ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zshenv) and reload your shell (exec $SHELL)

  export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/share/python:$PATH

• Install the python package prerequisites

  brew install python gcc swig

• Install suite-sparse (formerly umfpack)

  brew tap homebrew/science
  brew install suite-sparse

• Install the prerequisite python packages

  pip install numpy Cheetah lxml scipy matplotlib

• Install gnuradio (add --with-qt for gr-qtgui)

  brew tap odrisci/homebrew-gnuradio
  brew install gnuradio

• Create the ~/.gnuradio/config.conf config file for custom block support

  [grc]
  local_blocks_path=/usr/local/share/gnuradio/grc/blocks

Optional (for gr-wxgui)

• Before installing gnuradio, install wxmac 2.9 with python bindings

  brew install wxmac --python

Optional (for rtl-sdr devices)

• Install rtlsdr and related blocks

  brew install rtlsdr gr-osmosdr gr-baz --HEAD