From 4e0bf674129530cc5cac4127f9b467ff5e86af2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: c vw Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:40:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Instructions for MacOS users that want to use a pre-compiled "app" bundle. --- README.MacApp | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.MacApp diff --git a/README.MacApp b/README.MacApp new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ef8f3b --- /dev/null +++ b/README.MacApp @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Using a pre-compiled "app" on MacOS +=================================== + +If you get this file together with a pre-compiled +MacOS click-able "app" file, you need to install +support files for the GTK graphical user interface. + +This can be done by the following sequence of commands, that +have to by typed in after opening a terminal window (the terminal +application resides in the "Utilities" folder within the MacOS +"Applications" folder): + + xcode-select --install + curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install > brew.install + chmod 700 brew.install + ./brew.install + brew install gtk+3 + +You will be asked once for the Mac administrator password, if you are asked +later for MacOS keychain access, you can click "Don't allow". + +After this, double-click the pihpsdr application symbol. A window should open +with the text "Creating FFTW Wisdom file". Be patient, this takes about 15 +minutes and will be skipped upon later invocations of pihpsdr. + +Then the discovery process starts, and if everything is hooked up correctly, +you "see" your SDR and can click the "Start" button. + +Christoph van W"ullen, DL1YCF. -- 2.45.2