From stephane at shimaore.net  Wed Dec 25 22:10:04 2013
From: stephane at shimaore.net (stephane at shimaore.net)
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 23:10:04 +0100
Subject: osmo-bts-trx compilation
Message-ID: <20131225221004.GA12881@shimaore.net>

Hello,

I battled with osmo-bts-trx this afternoon; it didn't want to build with
old (at least not any I tried) nor recent libosmocore, so I ended up
using a chainsaw and cutting pieces out of it. The outcome is here:
  https://github.com/shimaore/osmo-bts
You can see what I had to remove here:
  https://github.com/shimaore/osmo-bts/commit/b5ac1c000e6d7bea57f7c1d8d47f43f9c18261de

This version builds with libosmocore etc `master` revisions.(*)
Once compiled this gives me a piece of software that starts and prints
out messages on the console, and apparently connects to the transceiver
on one side, and to osmo-bsc on the other side.

Anyhow, sending this out in hope this might save someone else a few
hours. :}
S.

(*)  The `abis` and `rsl` code are completely different in recent
     libosmocore, I suspect this build uses the old `abis` code embedded
     inside osmo-bts. The sysmo-bts code was updated, but not the
     trx-bts code.

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From stephane at shimaore.net  Fri Dec 27 22:19:00 2013
From: stephane at shimaore.net (stephane at shimaore.net)
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 23:19:00 +0100
Subject: osmo-bts-trx compilation
In-Reply-To: <20131225221004.GA12881@shimaore.net>
References: <20131225221004.GA12881@shimaore.net>
Message-ID: <20131227221900.GA19160@shimaore.net>

Hello,

Martin O'Shield encouraged me to post the documentation I had started on
OsmoCom integration with UmTRX, so here you go:

* https://github.com/shimaore/umtrx-osmo-bts
  which describes how to get started with the BTS side

* https://github.com/shimaore/umtrx-osmo-bsc
  which deals with the BSC side

Basically each of these contain a "how.txt" file on how to build the
software, and a "start.sh" template script on how to start it.

Feel free to use github's Issues and Pull Requests to ask questions or
suggest changes.
S.

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Development and integration for FreeSwitch, OpenSIPS, CouchDB, Node.js.
Mobile: +33643482771 - http://shimaore.net/ - https://github.com/shimaore/



From andrew at carrierdetect.com  Sat Dec 28 10:04:38 2013
From: andrew at carrierdetect.com (Andrew Back)
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 10:04:38 +0000
Subject: osmo-bts-trx compilation
In-Reply-To: <20131225221004.GA12881@shimaore.net>
References: <20131225221004.GA12881@shimaore.net>
Message-ID: <CADj1OPC9_DKojzDRJLV4gTXccEwbeXNGquEr7zAsUn9DrW9Ymg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Stephane,

On 25 December 2013 22:10,  <stephane at shimaore.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I battled with osmo-bts-trx this afternoon; it didn't want to build with
> old (at least not any I tried) nor recent libosmocore, so I ended up
> using a chainsaw and cutting pieces out of it.

I recently followed the instructions on the wiki and it worked fine
for me and without having to make any changes.

  http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/network_from_scratch

Cheers,

Andrew

-- 
Andrew Back
http://carrierdetect.com



From alexander.chemeris at gmail.com  Sat Dec 28 10:54:27 2013
From: alexander.chemeris at gmail.com (Alexander Chemeris)
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 14:54:27 +0400
Subject: osmo-bts-trx compilation
In-Reply-To: <CADj1OPC9_DKojzDRJLV4gTXccEwbeXNGquEr7zAsUn9DrW9Ymg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20131225221004.GA12881@shimaore.net>
	<CADj1OPC9_DKojzDRJLV4gTXccEwbeXNGquEr7zAsUn9DrW9Ymg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CABmJbFWL_Ez6qYNBwWO+nGKENw7qocd1qJ6HUxL=2o1Uuvt_wA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Andrew Back <andrew at carrierdetect.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephane,
>
> On 25 December 2013 22:10,  <stephane at shimaore.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I battled with osmo-bts-trx this afternoon; it didn't want to build with
>> old (at least not any I tried) nor recent libosmocore, so I ended up
>> using a chainsaw and cutting pieces out of it.
>
> I recently followed the instructions on the wiki and it worked fine
> for me and without having to make any changes.
>
>   http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/network_from_scratch

Btw, since recent updates in osmo-trx, you should use the master
branch from the official Osmocom repo:
http://cgit.osmocom.org/osmo-trx/ (preferred way)
or the master branch from fairwaves osmo-trx repo:
https://github.com/fairwaves/osmo-trx
The latter may lag compared to the official Osmocom osmo-trx and thus
is less preferred,


-- 
Regards,
Alexander Chemeris.
CEO, Fairwaves LLC / ??? ???????
http://fairwaves.ru



From stephane at shimaore.net  Sat Dec 28 14:42:55 2013
From: stephane at shimaore.net (stephane at shimaore.net)
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:42:55 +0100
Subject: osmo-bts-trx compilation
In-Reply-To: <CADj1OPC9_DKojzDRJLV4gTXccEwbeXNGquEr7zAsUn9DrW9Ymg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20131225221004.GA12881@shimaore.net>
	<CADj1OPC9_DKojzDRJLV4gTXccEwbeXNGquEr7zAsUn9DrW9Ymg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20131228144255.GB24145@shimaore.net>

Hi Andrew,

> I recently followed the instructions on the wiki and it worked fine
> for me and without having to make any changes.
>   http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/network_from_scratch

I guess I must have tried that at first but skipped it because openbsc
didn't want to build in the `jolly/testing` branch. However for the
little bits open-bts-trx depends on in the openbsc code, this works
fine (oops!).

So really the current path to compile the osmo-bts-trx jolly/trx branch
remains to use the openbsc jolly/testing branch (as indicated on the
wiki). I'll update my notes.


As I said, the jolly/testing branch of openbsc doesn't build fully.
(Although I guess this still leaves you with an osmo-nitb binary!)
The `master` branch of openbsc builds properly, that's why I got stuck
with that in my mind ("it builds so it's the one to use!").

I'm not sure what the feature differences and stability are, though.
osmo-nitb (master branch) crashes when I try to place mobile-to-mobile
calls, I need to experiment with the different versions.
S.

-- 
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Development and integration for FreeSwitch, OpenSIPS, CouchDB, Node.js.
Mobile: +33643482771 - http://shimaore.net/ - https://github.com/shimaore/



From alexander.chemeris at gmail.com  Sat Dec 28 14:58:27 2013
From: alexander.chemeris at gmail.com (Alexander Chemeris)
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 18:58:27 +0400
Subject: osmo-bts-trx compilation
In-Reply-To: <20131228144255.GB24145@shimaore.net>
References: <20131225221004.GA12881@shimaore.net>
	<CADj1OPC9_DKojzDRJLV4gTXccEwbeXNGquEr7zAsUn9DrW9Ymg@mail.gmail.com>
	<20131228144255.GB24145@shimaore.net>
Message-ID: <CABmJbFV96QFTL1iwn_xm-YvUJnUCE+iDy_CxRbegzW8mAqmy6g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

I think this discussion is better suited for the openbsc mailing list,
as it is not specific to UmTRX. I would recommend you to move it
there.

That said, we're using network_from_scratch procedure here, may be
with minor changes, and it works very well.

Crashes you've seen may be related to some incompatibility between
osmo-bts, osmo-nitb and libosmocore.

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:42 PM,  <stephane at shimaore.net> wrote:
>> I recently followed the instructions on the wiki and it worked fine
>> for me and without having to make any changes.
>>   http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/network_from_scratch
>
> I guess I must have tried that at first but skipped it because openbsc
> didn't want to build in the `jolly/testing` branch. However for the
> little bits open-bts-trx depends on in the openbsc code, this works
> fine (oops!).
>
> So really the current path to compile the osmo-bts-trx jolly/trx branch
> remains to use the openbsc jolly/testing branch (as indicated on the
> wiki). I'll update my notes.
>
> As I said, the jolly/testing branch of openbsc doesn't build fully.
> (Although I guess this still leaves you with an osmo-nitb binary!)
> The `master` branch of openbsc builds properly, that's why I got stuck
> with that in my mind ("it builds so it's the one to use!").
>
> I'm not sure what the feature differences and stability are, though.
> osmo-nitb (master branch) crashes when I try to place mobile-to-mobile
> calls, I need to experiment with the different versions.
> S.
>
> --
> St?phane Alnet -- Telecom Artisan. OpenSource Advocate.
> Development and integration for FreeSwitch, OpenSIPS, CouchDB, Node.js.
> Mobile: +33643482771 - http://shimaore.net/ - https://github.com/shimaore/
>



-- 
Regards,
Alexander Chemeris.
CEO, Fairwaves LLC / ??? ???????
http://fairwaves.ru