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[ratzrattillo]

The installer for release 2023.02 (https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF/releases/tag/2023.02) cannot yet be downloaded at https://www.nuand.com/win_installers/

[rghilduta]

It's on the todo list! Trying to get a few more patches in before rolling a new Windows installer. Stay tuned!

[mpumputis]

Any tentative release time for this?

[lgoix]

[Updated] I've recently built for windows again and I figured there were missing important steps...

I've been able to compile for Windows based on this tutorial but with some modifications:

https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF/wiki/Building-libbladeRF-for-Windows

• I had previously installed bladeRF-win-installer-2021.03.exe
• Git was installed
• installed Visual Studio 2022 Community with C++ Desktop Dev
• CMake installed from http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

Libusb

• 1.0.24 : https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases
• copied in C:\standalone\libusb-1.0.24

PThread

• checkout master https://github.com/GerHobbelt/pthread-win32/
• opened windows/VS2022/pthread.2022.vcxproj updated pthread.h to add at libe 206: #define PTW32_ARCHx64
  
• Build for Release x64, content will be inside C:\repos\pthread-win32\windows\VS2022\bin\Release-Unicode-64bit-x64
• I copied the file from ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-9-1-release/COPYING.LIB in the previous directory

BladeRF

• Checkout project at this commit https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF/tree/41ef63460956e833c9b321252245257ab3946055
• When configuring with CMake, pay attention to these variables:
  
• Configure and Generate, then open C:\repos\bladeRF\host\build\bladeRF.sln in Visual Studio
• We need to define the M_PI variable in C:\repos\bladeRF\host\utilities\bladeRF-cli\src\cmd\generate.c :
  
• Build the solution, then copy everything from bladeRF\host\build\output\Release to C:\Program Files\bladeRF\x64 (please do a backup first ;) )

open command line and verify:
SoapySDRUtil --probe="driver=bladerf"
You should see the 122.88 samples rates here:
Sample rates: [0.520834, 30.72], [30.72, 61.44], [61.44, 122.88] MSps <-----

[zimmer777]

I attempted to build it myself, but ran into too many issues. I would really appreciate a new Windows installer.

[lgoix]

I've just updated my previous comment to add more infos

For the Osmocom bloc in GnuRadio (https://github.com/Nuand/gr-osmosdr/), I've found a way to build it for Windows and use it with radioconda, if there are interest, I will publish the steps

[zimmer777]

Thanks so much for posting the more detailed steps!

I managed to get it to work with libusb v1.0.26. To get that working, I had to modify the directory structure so the dll and lib files were in [LIBUSB_PATH]/MS64/dll/ - the download package had them in libusb-1.0.26-binaries\VS2015-x64\dll. Also, Windows often blocks downloaded dll and lib files, so those had to be unblocked as well.