Build WSPR on Ubuntu 12.04

Notes for myself (and Ross, VK1UN etc). How to build WSPR on a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 desktop.

First install the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev \

gfortran \

python-pmw \
python-numpy \

portaudio19-dev \

libsamplerate0-dev \

python-imaging-tk \

cl-fftw3

svn co http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/wsjt/branches/wspr

cd wspr

./configure \

--with-portaudio-include-dir=/usr/include \

--with-portaudio-lib-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

Success output from configure looks like this:

configure: creating ./config.status

config.status: creating Makefile

Using gfortran as fortran compiler.

Compiling wspr 1.11

Installing into: /usr/local/

Now build:

make

Now run:

./wspr

And you should see this:

So, it's actually getting easier in that more of the dependencies are already installed by default. The only tricky bit was figuring out where the portaudio libs live now.

Note that while you can do a "make install" to copy over the /usr/local, it won't run from there because it can't find wspr.py so I just cd to the wspr build directory and run it there with ./wspr

Update


Ross, T16AA, noted that if you are building for 64 bit linux the portaudio libraries are in a slightly different location so the configure line will be:

./configure \
  --with-portaudio-include-dir=/usr/include \
 --with-portaudio-lib-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Thanks Ross.