Nothing fancy, just a personal log with a built in search function so I can recall what is easily forgotten.
Friday, July 31, 2020
Google Play "Widespread Augmented Reality"
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Software Defined Radio (SDR) Links for Digital Decoding
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
GNU Radio Windows Installation
First of all, this process is cumbersome and requires modifying Windows Environment Variables and modifying the script that is called:
Setup.ps1 .
I followed the instructions at https://github.com/gnieboer/gnuradio_windows_build_scripts
Everything is correct in the "Prerequisites" and "Installation & Build" sections.
Just to add some clarity, after searching for and installing the "Prerequisites", it may help to add all the executable files to the PATH environment variables for Windows.
The main thing is that I have Visual Studio Community 2019, not Visual Studio 2015.
As a result, I had to pay attention to "C:\..\GNURadio_Windows_Build_Scripts\Setup.ps1".
Specifically these lines:
# MSVC 2015 if ($env:VS140COMNTOOLS -eq $null) {throw "Visual Studio 2015 must be installed. Aborting script"} # WIX if (-not (test-path $env:WIX)) {throw "WIX toolset must be installed. Aborting script"} # doxygen if ((Get-Command "doxygen.exe" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) {throw "Doxygen must be installed and on the path. Aborting script"} # set VS 2015 environment if (!(Test-Path variable:global:oldpath)) { pushd "$env:VS140COMNTOOLS/../../VS" #pushd "$env:VS140COMNTOOLS/../../VC" cmd.exe /c "vcvarsall.bat amd64&set" |
See $env:VS140COMNTOOLS. I had to do a search in my Microsoft Visual Studio directory for "vcvarsall.bat" and then create an environment variable in Windows named VS140COMNTOOLS that points to vcvarsall.bat.
Next I had to change what seems to be a typo with "$env:VS140COMNTOOLS/../../VC". On my Windows machine, the directory is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\VS".
Also you may have to add the path to VCVarsall.bat, e.g. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build" to the Environment path variable.
Currently the build is running, I post this prematurely just in case I die before it completes.
UPDATE:
Still alive when install process crashed as it was unable to find Msbuild on any path.
Downloaded MsBuild from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48159 and added the path to the environment variables.
Ran ./~Setup.ps1 again, but opted for short build option. Life is short.
Still alive and script is crashing on trying to find armadillo at SourceForge. Downloading the file myself and putting it where the script expects. Rerunning from the beginning in hopes that the script is smart enough to skip if already downloaded.
Oh joy...apparently the script will bypass a step if the file is already downloaded.
End of this post
PS: If it still fails, I already have GNU radio running on Kali Linux.
Or you could simply visit http://www.gcndevelopment.com/gnuradio/downloads.htm with the FireFox Browser and just install the appropriate msi.
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Kali Linux Update Error: Release file for http://http.kali.org/kali/dists/kali-rolling/InRelease is not valid yet
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib
However running sudo apt-get update resulted in an error explaining that the file is not valid yet.
The time on my computer needed to be updated by running.
sudo ntpdate -v pool.ntp.org
Now on to more pressing matters.