Windows

sigrok-gui on Windows

Self-extracting installer

Work in progress.

Currently only the command-line tool sigrok-cli is installed and supported.

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Building from source

This page describes how to build sigrok on Windows.

TortoiseGit

For checking out the sigrok source code you can use TortoiseGit on Windows.

• Download and install the latest version (for 32bit or 64bit Windows) of TortoiseGit (just double-click the *.msi installer).
• Download and install the latest version of the "full installer" of MSysGit (double-click the *.exe installer).

MinGW/MSYS

In order to build sigrok and various of its dependencies, we need a UNIX-like environment on Windows, which is provided by MinGW/MSYS.

• Download the latest version (20101030 currently) of the automated MinGW installer named mingw-get-inst (double-click the installer *.exe, which will download and install all components).
  • Make sure you enable "MinGW Compiler Suite", "C++ compiler", "MSYS Basic System", and "MinGW Developer Toolkit" in the installer.
  • For simplicity it's recommended to leave the default install location of c:\MinGW unchanged.

Now open a MinGW shell via Start/Programs/MinGW/MinGW Shell and do the following:

$ mingw-get update
$ mingw-get install msys-wget msys-unzip

autotools

Installing the autotools (if not already done) is as simple as:

$ mingw-get install autoconf automake libtool

libglib

sigrok also needs libglib >= 2.0 (but not Gtk+), which in turn needs pkg-config and libintl. Download the latest versions of the respective Windows binaries and extract them into c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local:

• glib_2.26.1-1_win32.zip
• glib-dev_2.26.1-1_win32.zip
• pkg-config_0.25-1_win32.zip
• pkg-config-dev_0.25-1_win32.zip
• proxy-libintl_20100902_win32.zip
• proxy-libintl-dev_20100902_win32.zip

Then run:

$ cd /c/MinGW/bin
$ cp libintl-8.dll intl.dll

libusb 1.0

$ git clone git://git.libusb.org/libusb-pbatard.git (or use TortoiseGit)
$ cd libusb-pbatard
$ ./autogen.sh
$ make
$ make install

libzip

Finally, we also need libzip. First, install its dependency zlib:

$ mingw-get install zlib msys-zlib-dev

Then, download libzip-0.9.3.tar.gz and install it.

$ wget http://nih.at/libzip/libzip-0.9.3.tar.gz
$ tar xfvz libzip-0.9.3.tar.gz
$ cd libzip-0.9.3
$ autoreconf -i
$ ./configure --with-zlib=/c/MinGW/msys/1.0
$ make
$ make install

Python

We also need Python >= 2.5 for running the sigrok protocol decoders which are written in Python. On Windows, sigrok currently assumes Python 2.6.x installed in c:\Python26.

• Download and install the latest version (currently 2.6.5) of the Python Windows installer (just double-click the *.msi installer file).
  • For simplicity it's recommended to leave the default install location of c:\Python26 unchanged.

Qt

In order to also build sigrok-gui, download the latest version (>= 4.5) of the Qt SDK for Windows (LGPL version) and double-click the installer. The download includes the Qt libraries, Qt Creator, Qt Designer, and various other Qt development tools.

sigrok

Get the source code:

$ git clone git://sigrok.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/sigrok/sigrok (or use TortoiseGit)
$ cd sigrok

Build the library and command line tool:

$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Build the GUI:

• First, you need to copy some files into the gui/debug folder:

$ cd gui
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig /c/Qt/2010.01/qt/bin/qmake
$ cd debug
$ cp /c/Qt/2010.01/qt/bin/libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll .
$ cp /c/Qt/2010.01/qt/bin/QtCored4.dll .
$ cp /c/Qt/2010.01/qt/bin/QtGui4.dll .
$ cd ../..

• Then, open the project in Qt Creator from within an MSYS shell:

$ cd gui
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig /c/Qt/2010.01/qt/bin/qtcreator sigrok-gui.pro

• Build and run the project.