__ __ ______ _____ ________ __ __ | \ _ | \ / \ | \| \ | \ | \ | $$ / \ | $$| $$$$$$\ \$$$$$ \$$$$$$$$ | $$ | $$ | $$/ $\| $$| $$___\$$ | $$ | $$ ______ \$$\/ $$ | $$ $$$\ $$ \$$ \ __ | $$ | $$| \ >$$ $$ | $$ $$\$$\$$ _\$$$$$$\| \ | $$ | $$ \$$$$$$/ $$$$\ | $$$$ \$$$$| \__| $$| $$__| $$ | $$ | $$ \$$\ | $$$ \$$$ \$$ $$ \$$ $$ | $$ | $$ | $$ \$$ \$$ \$$$$$$ \$$$$$$ \$$ \$$ \$$ Installing WSJT-X ================= Binary packages of WSJT-X are available from the project web site: http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html Building from Source ==================== On Linux systems some of the prerequisite libraries are available in the mainstream distribution repositories. They are Qt v5 and FFTW v3. For MS Windows see the section "Building from Source on MS Windows" below. For Apple Mac see the section "Building from Source on Apple Mac". Qt v5 multimedia support is necessary as well as the core Qt v5 components, normally installing the Qt multimedia development package is sufficient to pull in all the required Qt components and dependants as a single transaction. On some systems the Qt multimedia plugin component is separate in the distribution repository an it may also need installing. The single precision FFTW v3 library libfftw3f is required along with the libfftw library development package. Normally installing the library development package pulls in all the FFTW v3 libraries including the single precision variant. The Hamlib library is required. Currently WSJT-X needs to be built using a forked version of the Hamlib git master. This fork contains patches not yet accepted by the Hamlib development team which are essential for correct operation of WSJT-X. To build the Hamlib fork from sources something like the following recipe should suffice: mkdir ~/hamlib-prefix cd ~/hamlib-prefix git clone git://git.code.sf.net/u/bsomervi/hamlib src cd src git checkout integration mkdir ../build cd ../build ../src/autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/hamlib-prefix \ --disable-shared --enable-static \ --without-cxx-binding --disable-winradio \ CFLAGS="-fdata-sections -ffunction-sections" \ LDFLAGS="-Wl,--gc-sections" make make install This will build a binary hamlib package located at ~/hamlib-prefix so you will need to add that to your CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH variable in your WSJT-X build. On Linux that is probably the only path you have on CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH unless you are using a locally installed Qt installation. To get the sources either download and extract a source tarball from the project web site or preferably fetch the sources directly from the project's subversion repository. The project svn repository has a non-standard layout in that the WSJT-X project is not on the trunk, instead the main code line is in a branch at ^/branches/wsjtx mkdir -p ~/wsjtx-prefix/build cd ~/wsjtx-prefix svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/wsjt/wsjt/branches/wsjtx src To build WSJT-X you will need CMake and asciidoc installed. cd ~/wsjtx-prefix/build cmake -D CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=~/hamlib-prefix ../src cmake --build . cmake --build . --target install The recipe above will install into /usr by default, if you wish to install in you own directory you can add a prefix-path to the configure step like: cd ~/wsjtx-prefix/build cmake -D CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=~/hamlib-prefix \ -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/wsjtx-prefix ../src cmake --build . cmake --build . --target install this will install WSJT-X at ~/wsjtx-prefix. Building from Source on MS Windows ================================== Because building on MS Windows is quite complicated there is an Software Development Kit available that provides all the prerequisite libraries and tools for building WSJT-X. This SDK is called JT-SDK-QT which is documented here: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-doc/dev-guide-main.html If you need to build Hamlib rather than use the Hamlib kit included in the JT-SDK the following recipe should help. Reasons for building Hamlib from source might include picking up the very latest patches or building a different branch that you wish to contribute to. On Windows there is a complication in that the compilers used to build Qt and WSJT-X are the MinGW ones bundled with the Qt package but Hamlib needs to be build from an MSYS shell with the tools required to build an autotools project. This means that you need to tell the Hamlib configuration to use the Qt bundled MinGW compilers (if you don't then the thread support library use by Hamlib will be incompatible with that used by Qt and WSJT-X). So on Windows the Hamlib build recipe is something like: In an MSYS shell:- mkdir ~/hamib-prefix cd ~/hamlib-prefix git clone git://git.code.sf.net/u/bsomervi/hamlib src cd src git checkout integration mkdir ../build cd ../build ../src/autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/hamlib-prefix \ --disable-shared --enable-static \ --without-cxx-binding --disable-winradio \ CC=/gcc \ CXX=/g++ \ CFLAGS="-fdata-sections -ffunction-sections" \ LDFLAGS="-Wl,--gc-sections" make make install NOTE: should be substituted with the actual path to your Qt bundled tools e.g on my system it is C:\Tools\Qt\Tools\mingw48_32\bin This will leave a Hamlib binary package installed at c:/Users//hamlib-prefix which is what needs to be on your CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH. On Windows you almost certainly will be using a CMake tool chain file and this is where you will need to specify the Hamlib binary location as one of the paths in CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH. Building from Source on Apple Mac ================================= These instructions are adapted from my Evernote page at: https://www.evernote.com/pub/bsomervi/wsjt-xmacbuilds There are several ways to get the required GNU and other open source tools and libraries installed, my preference is MacPorts because it is easy to use and does everything we need. You will need Xcode, MacPorts, CMake and, Qt. The Xcode install instructions are included in the MacPorts documentation. Install MacPorts from instructions here: http://www.macports.org/install.php More detailed instructions are available in the documentation: https://guide.macports.org The ports that need to be installed are: autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig texinfo gcc49 fftw-3-single +gcc49 asciidoc These are install by typing: sudo port install autoconf automake \ libtool pkgconfig texinfo gcc49 asciidoc \ fftw-3-single +gcc49 Once complete you should have all the tools required to build WSJT-X. Uninstalling MacPorts If at some point you wish to remove the ports from your machine. The instructions are here: https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.uninstalling . Hamlib First fetch hamlib from the repository, in this case my fork of Hamlib 3 until the official repository has all the fixes we need: mkdir -p ~/hamlib-prefix/build cd ~/hamlib-prefix git clone git://git.code.sf.net/u/bsomervi/hamlib src cd src git checkout integration The integration branch is my system testing branch which has all my latest published changes. You need to make one small change to the sources to build on OS X using the MacPorts tools, here is a sed command to make the change: sed -i.orig '/libtoolize/s/lib/glib/' autogen.sh To build: cd ~/hamlib-prefix/build ../src/hamlib/autogen.sh \ --enable-static \ --disable-shared \ --disable-winradio \ --prefix=$HOME/hamlib-prefix make make install-strip The above commands will build hamlib and install it into ~/hamlib-prefix Qt The easiest way to obtain Qt is to use the latest qt-project.org on line installer DMG for Mac OS X which should be here: http://www.qt.io/download . You need the "Community" edition. CMake Although CMake is available via MacPorts I prefer to use the binary installer from cake.org as the MacPorts port doesn't include the graphical CMake tool cmake-gui which I find quite useful. Fetch the latest CMake universal 64-bit DMG from http://www.cmake.org/download/ open the DMG then drag and drop the application bundle onto the supplied /Applications link. To complete the install process you need to run the CMake application as root from a terminal shell: sudo /Applications/CMake.app/Contents/MacOS/CMake in the CMake application choose "Tools->Install For Command Line Use" from the menu and then click the "Install Command Line Links". WSJT-X First fetch the source from the repository: mkdir -p ~/wsjtx-prefix/build cd ~/wsjtx-prefix svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/wsjt/wsjt/branches/wsjtx src this links to the Subversion repository in a read-only fashion, if you intend to contribute to the project then you probably want to get a developer login and use a read-write checkout. Even if you don't it can be upgraded at a later date. The checkout is of the latest code on the project trunk, i.e. the development branch. You can easily switch the checkout to another branch or even a tag if you want to build a prior published generation. For now we will build the latest development sources. To configure: cd ~/wsjtx-prefix/build FC=gfortran-mp-4.9 \ cmake \ -D CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="~/Qt/5.3/clang_64;~/hamlib-prefix;/opt/local" \ -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/wsjtx-prefix \ ~/wsjtx-prefix/src The CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH variable specifies where CMake should look first for other packages, the two elements may be different depending where you have installed Qt and what version you have and where you installed Hamlib (i.e. the --prefix configure option above in the hamlib section). If you already have the fftw3-dev package installed on your system it may well get selected in preference to the one you built above in the MacPorts installation. It is unlikely that a prior installation of libfftw3f is correctly configured for use in a WSJT-X package, the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH above is augmented with the MacPorts installation location (/opt/local) to ensure the correct libfftw3f.dylib and headers are located. To build: cmake --build . cmake --build . --target install which installs the WSJT-X application bundle into ~/wsjtx-prefix Updating and Rebuilding Hamlib ============================== From time to time new fixes will be pushed to the Hamlib fork repository integration branch. To pick them up type: cd ~/hamlib-prefix/src git pull To rebuild hamlib with the changed sources: cd ~/hamlib-prefix/build make make install-strip Updating and Rebuilding WSJT-X ============================== To update to the latest sources type: cd ~/wsjtx-prefix/src svn update cd ~/wsjtx-prefix/build cmake --build . cmake --build . --target install 73 Bill G4WJS.