Compiling pihpsdr, wsjtx etc. on RaspPi

"Christoph v. Wüllen"

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Nov 16, 2020, 11:35:29 AM11/16/20

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Dear all,

for the week-end I promised to provide detailed instructions how
to compile piHPSDR (and linHPSDR, Fldigi, WSJT-X) on a RaspberryPi.

Well it took a little bit longer since we had a WSJT-X update
this week-end and this affected the compilation (the boost library
is no longer bundled with wsjtx but needs being installed separately).

Enclosed find a Readme.tx that describes how to start from a „virgin“
operating system. Nearly all the work is done in two scripts
install.sh (to be executed once) and compile.sh (can be executed again
and again to re-compile things).

It has already been tested by „guinea pigs“ and I also have booted
from a virgin micro-SD card several times so I am somewhat confident
that this works.

I think it should also be tested by one of the „linux masters“ out
there and feel free to put this into the HL2 wiki if you find this
useful.

Yours,

Christoph DL1YCF.

attached files: ReadMe.txt, install.sh, compile.sh

ReadMe.txt

install.sh

compile.sh

Kristofer Danner

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Nov 16, 2020, 3:57:05 PM11/16/20

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Christoph,

Is there a good reason to not use the wsjtx and fldigi which are already part of the distribution and can just be installed via apt?

Steve Haynal

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Nov 17, 2020, 1:56:35 AM11/17/20

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Hi Christoph,

Thanks for the scripts. I added a link to your post on the Software wiki page:

https://github.com/softerhardware/Hermes-Lite2/wiki/Software#pihpsdr

73,

Steve

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DL1YCF

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Nov 17, 2020, 2:54:12 AM11/17/20

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> Am 16.11.2020 um 21:57 schrieb Kristofer Danner <kda...@gmail.com>:
>
> Christoph,
> Is there a good reason to not use the wsjtx and fldigi which are already part of the distribution and can just be installed via apt?
>

In my personal opinion, compiling from the sources is preferable, since this eliminates dependencies on specific library versions
etc. and always gives you the latest version. For pihpsdr for example, what you find in the distributions is terribly out-dated.
The SOAPY-SDR libraries in many distributions are also too old, therefore the sources are „pulled“ and compiled.

It is rather easy to strip-down the scripts as to compile only the program you want. If there is demand, I shall create
„pihpsdr only“ versions.

Yours,

Christoph DL1YCF.

Heikki Ahola

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Nov 17, 2020, 1:01:01 PM11/17/20

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Hi Christoph et al,

I wonder if the scripts might work with RPi 3B+ also ? This is what I currently have and I already tried to install PiHPSDR from another source but failed. Your scripts did not work either which kinda suggests having a hardware problem.

73 de Heikki (OH2LZI)

samuel kallmeyer

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Nov 17, 2020, 1:03:52 PM11/17/20

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Hi Christoph,

Many thanks for your sharing.

I have just a small comment / update : within you readme.txt, the chmod shall be executed as root, and therefore request the sudo chmod ...

I was able to recompile everything on a Pi3 without problem and to launch the piHPSDR.

I still need to investigate a bit how to configure the BT audio device ;-)

73 from F8ACB,

Samuel

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Ronald Meier

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Oct 8, 2024, 11:30:39 AM10/8/24

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@Christoph,

Are the readme, install and compile, still valid for installing HL2 on Raspi5? I got a second hand HL2 and would like to run it on Raspi for testing besides my W11 main set up for the HL2.