Windows

sigrok-gui on Windows

Status

We intend to fully support all major operating systems in sigrok, including Windows. However, we're not quite there, yet, various portability issues need to be addressed still. The table below lists the current Windows status of the various hardware drivers.

Logic analyzer	Windows status
Saleae Logic	libusb-1.0 issues need to be sorted out.
EE Electronics XLA/ESLA100	libusb-1.0 issues need to be sorted out.
ASIX SIGMA	Compiles fine using libftdi + libusb-0.1-win32 (not runtime-tested, though).
Openbench Logic Sniffer	Serial port portability fixes required (partially implemented, but unfinished).
ZEROPLUS Logic Cube LAP-C	Untested, but uses libusb-1.0, so there may be issues.
Link Instruments MSO-19‎	Doesn't compile due to libudev dependency. TODO: Make libudev optional.
ChronoVu LA8	Works fine using libftdi + libusb-0.1-win32.
Demo driver	Works fine.

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 of the automated MinGW installer named mingw-get-inst (double-click the installer EXE file, 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 >= 2.22.0, 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 and glib-dev
• pkg-config and pkg-config-dev
• proxy-libintl and proxy-libintl-dev

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

libftdi + libusb-0.1-win32

• Download and execute libusb-win32-devel-filter-1.2.5.0.exe.
• Download and extract libusb-win32-bin-1.2.5.0.zip.
  • Rename lusb0_usb.h to usb.h and copy it to /usr/local/include.
• Install libftdi. The easiest method is probably to use the libftdi-0.19_mingw32.zip binaries from here.
  • Extract the ZIP file into a temporary directory.
  • Copy dll/libftdi.dll to /usr/local/bin.
  • Copy lib/libftdi.a and lib/libftdi.dll.a to /usr/local/lib.
  • Copy include/ftdi.h to /usr/local/include.

zlib

Download the latest versions of the respective Windows binaries and extract them into c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local:

• zlib and zlib-dev

libzip

$ wget http://nih.at/libzip/libzip-0.10.tar.gz
$ tar xfvz libzip-0.10.tar.gz
$ cd libzip-0.10
$ ./configure --with-zlib=/usr/local
$ 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 2.6.6) 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 GUI

In order to also build the Qt-based 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.

GTK+ GUI

Download the latest versions of the following Windows binaries and extract them into c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local:

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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/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/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.