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2013-01-27T23:48:50Z
<p>Tschutter: /* Installing the build-dependencies */</p>
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<div>[[File:Sigrok-gtk-0.1.png|thumb|320px|right|sigrok-gtk 0.1.0 on Linux]]<br />
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This page describes how to build/install sigrok on Linux.<br />
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== Distribution packages ==<br />
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See [[Downloads#Binaries_and_distribution_packages|Downloads]].<br />
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== Building from source ==<br />
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=== Requirements ===<br />
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* git<br />
* gcc (>= 4.0)<br />
* g++<br />
* make<br />
* autoconf >= 2.63<br />
* automake >= 1.11<br />
* libtool<br />
* pkg-config >= 0.22<br />
* [http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/ libglib] >= 2.28.0<br />
* [http://www.libusb.org libusb] >= 1.0.5 (optional, only required for some devices)<br />
* [http://nih.at/libzip/ libzip] >= 0.8<br />
* zlib >= 1.2.3.1<br />
* [http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/ libftdi] >= 0.16 (optional, only required for some devices)<br />
* [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/ libudev] >= 151 (optional, only required for some devices)<br />
* [http://www.python.org Python] >= 3.0 (optional, only required for libsigrokdecode)<br />
* GTK+ (optional, only required for building/editing sigrok-gtk)<br />
* [http://qt.nokia.com Qt + Qt Creator] >= 4.5 (optional, only required for building/editing the sigrok-qt)<br />
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=== Installing the build-dependencies ===<br />
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On most Linux distributions there are pre-built packages for the sigrok dependencies (if not, you have to build the packages from source). The installation using a package manager is usually pretty simple.<br />
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Debian/Ubuntu:<br />
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$ '''sudo apt-get install git-core gcc g++ make autoconf automake libtool pkg-config \'''<br />
'''libglib2.0-dev libftdi-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libzip-dev zlib1g-dev python3-dev \'''<br />
'''libgtk2.0-dev qtcreator qt4-designer qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libasound2-dev \'''<br />
'''libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev'''<br />
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Fedora (TODO: Needs updates):<br />
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$ '''yum install gcc-c++ libtool glib2-devel libftdi-devel libusb1-devel libzip-devel qt-devel python3-devel'''<br />
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OpenSuSE (12.2):<br />
$ '''zypper install gcc-c++ libtool glib2-devel libftdi1-devel libusb-1_0-devel libzip-devel libqt4-devel python3-devel'''<br />
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=== Building ===<br />
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Building [[libsigrok]]:<br />
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$ '''git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrok'''<br />
$ '''cd libsigrok'''<br />
$ '''./autogen.sh'''<br />
$ '''./configure'''<br />
$ '''make'''<br />
$ '''sudo make install'''<br />
$ '''cd ..'''<br />
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Building [[libsigrokdecode]]:<br />
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$ '''git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrokdecode'''<br />
$ '''cd libsigrokdecode'''<br />
$ '''./autogen.sh'''<br />
$ '''./configure'''<br />
$ '''make'''<br />
$ '''sudo make install'''<br />
$ '''cd ..'''<br />
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Then you need to build the chosen user interfaces (cli, qt or gtk).<br />
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For building [[sigrok-cli]] (the command-line interface for sigrok):<br />
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$ '''git clone git://sigrok.org/sigrok-cli'''<br />
$ '''cd sigrok-cli'''<br />
$ '''./autogen.sh'''<br />
$ '''./configure'''<br />
$ '''make'''<br />
$ '''sudo make install'''<br />
$ '''cd ..'''<br />
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For building [[PulseView]]:<br />
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$ '''git clone git://sigrok.org/pulseview'''<br />
$ '''cd pulseview'''<br />
$ '''cmake .'''<br />
$ '''make'''<br />
$ '''sudo make install'''<br />
$ '''cd ..'''<br />
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For building [[sigrok-gtk]] ('''Note:''' The GTK+ GUI is not yet usable!):<br />
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$ '''git clone git://sigrok.org/sigrok-gtk'''<br />
$ '''cd sigrok-gtk'''<br />
$ '''./autogen.sh'''<br />
$ '''./configure'''<br />
$ '''make'''<br />
$ '''sudo make install'''<br />
$ '''cd ..'''<br />
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For building [[sigrok-qt]] ('''Note:''' The Qt GUI is not yet usable!):<br />
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$ '''git clone git://sigrok.org/sigrok-qt'''<br />
$ '''cd sigrok-qt'''<br />
$ '''qmake'''<br />
$ '''make'''<br />
$ '''sudo make install'''<br />
$ '''cd ..'''<br />
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If you get warnings claiming potential symbol conflicts when running qmake, you are likely not invoking '''qmake-qt4'''. Try running '''qmake-qt4''' to force the correct version.<br />
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=== Pitfalls ===<br />
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If you get this error:<br />
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sigrok-cli: error while loading shared libraries: libsigrok.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br />
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Then you have to rebuild the links to your shared libraries:<br />
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$ '''sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib'''<br />
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=== Testing ===<br />
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Scan for devices:<br />
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$ '''sigrok-cli -D'''<br />
The following devices were found:<br />
ID Device<br />
0 Zeroplus Logic Cube with 32 probes<br />
demo Demo device with 8 probes<br />
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Get 10 samples from device 0 (Zeroplus Logic Cube in this example):<br />
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$ '''sigrok-cli -d 0 --samples 10'''<br />
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See [[sigrok-cli]] for further usage.</div>
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