Hi Alexander, John, list,
On 19/07/2012 09:04, Alexander Huemer wrote:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:43:08AM +0000, John Case wrote:
I am a mac and NetBSD user and have not run any linux systems for many years. I have never used Debian/Ubuntu/etc.
Now that's an interesting combination! ;)
Rock on!
Now I would like to begin doing work with osmocom, GNU radio, SDRs and some android development.
I knw it's a religious question, but since I am starting with a completely blank slate, what would be the simplest, most painless distro to set up a development and build environment (cross compiling for arm, building osmocom, gnu radio, and running android development tools and SDKs) ?
I have managed to build Osmocom at some point on NetBSD; see: https://github.com/khorben/osmocom-bb
It didn't fully work as-is from my tests, but it should be possible to make it work. I used a cross-compilation toolchain built through NetBSD's build.sh (evbarm).
I assume the answer must be either Debian or Ubuntu, but really have no idea ... comments ?
Most developers use Debian, it works as expected. IIRC somebody in the past tried to package something from *.osmocom.org for netbsd. Search the ML archive.
It's in pkgsrc-wip, wip/libosmocore. I did it in August 2011, I think it's way out of date now.
At least libosmocore compiles on freebsd[1]. Did you try to compile osmocombb on netbsd? I'd be interested in the results.
*tadaaa*
(no idea about the current code though)
HTH,