gr-osmosdr Could NOT find Boost (C++ libraries)

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End goal: Play about with RTL-SDR in GNURadio Companion

While following the instructions on this page, I've run into errors concerning the Boost C++ libraries. While building the gr-osmosdr blocks to use in GNURadio, cmake fails to complete because it cannot find Boost which is definitely installed. Version 1.57.

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Package boost-1.57.0-6.fc22.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

Specifically, the error message I receive looks like...

-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Build type not specified: defaulting to release.
-- Found Git: /usr/bin/git (found version "2.4.11") 
-- Extracting version information from git describe...
-- Configuring Boost C++ Libraries...
-- Could NOT find Boost
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:125 (message):
  Boost required to build gr-osmosdr

The code in CMakeLists.txt concerning Boost is...

########################################################################
# Setup boost
########################################################################
MESSAGE(STATUS "Configuring Boost C++ Libraries...")
Although not required on my system, some users have linking issues without
SET(BOOST_REQUIRED_COMPONENTS
    thread
    system
)
if(UNIX AND NOT BOOST_ROOT AND EXISTS "/usr/lib64")
    list(APPEND BOOST_LIBRARYDIR "/usr/lib64") #fedora 64-bit fix
endif(UNIX AND NOT BOOST_ROOT AND EXISTS "/usr/lib64")
set(Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS
    "1.35.0" "1.35" "1.36.0" "1.36" "1.37.0" "1.37" "1.38.0" "1.38" "1.39.0" "1.39"
    "1.40.0" "1.40" "1.41.0" "1.41" "1.42.0" "1.42" "1.43.0" "1.43" "1.44.0" "1.44"
    "1.45.0" "1.45" "1.46.0" "1.46" "1.47.0" "1.47" "1.48.0" "1.48" "1.49.0" "1.49"
    "1.50.0" "1.50" "1.51.0" "1.51" "1.52.0" "1.52" "1.53.0" "1.53" "1.54.0" "1.54"
    "1.55.0" "1.55" "1.56.0" "1.56" "1.57.0" "1.57" "1.58.0" "1.58" "1.59.0" "1.59"
    "1.60.0" "1.60" "1.61.0" "1.61" "1.62.0" "1.62" "1.63.0" "1.63" "1.64.0" "1.64"
    "1.65.0" "1.65" "1.66.0" "1.66" "1.67.0" "1.67" "1.68.0" "1.68" "1.69.0" "1.69"
)
find_package(Boost COMPONENTS ${BOOST_REQUIRED_COMPONENTS})
if(NOT Boost_FOUND)
    message(FATAL_ERROR "Boost required to build " ${CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME})
endif()
ADD_DEFINITIONS(-DBOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK)

Probably just have to point one thing to another. But I don't know which to what.

Make sure the boost development packages are installed; these typically end in -devel. — Marcus Müller, Jul 28 '16 at 14:32
If gr-osomosdr uses GNU autoconf, look in config.log for details. — user, Jul 28 '16 at 14:46
Michael, no, it uses CMake and the error really is that it can't find boost this far — Marcus Müller, Jul 29 '16 at 05:18

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 29 '16 at 11:13

4

Thanks to @Marcus Müller. It seemed in this instance it was the lack of the devel packages for boost. A simple...

$ sudo dnf install boost-devel

...did the trick (Well, I mean it moved me on to the next failure).

answered Jul 29 '16 at 11:13

OhNoNotScott

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5

"it moved me on to the next failure:" that sounds familiar (https://xkcd.com/349/) – Rafael KR7MJ Jul 29 '16 at 12:49
Side note, RTL-SDR has an oldschool mailing list. I used it heavily a few years ago and got great feedback. Not sure how active they are today. https://lists.osmocom.org/mailman/listinfo/osmocom-sdr – Andrew W. Aug 02 '16 at 17:20
You're right. Your answer helped me with building gr-osmosdr on OpenSuSE Leap, and then there are many, many "next failures". It finally worked though. My write-up is here: http://linux.topology.org/rtlsdr.html#install_rtl_sdr_gnuradio – Alan U. Kennington Dec 21 '20 at 18:32

gr-osmosdr Could NOT find Boost (C++ libraries)

Although not required on my system, some users have linking issues without

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