Installing SDR++ on macOS Monterey

Written By Gaston Gonzalez

SDR++ on macOS Monterey

The following are my personal notes as I went through the process of building SDR++ from source code. I am currently running a 2021 M1 Mac on macOS Monterey (12.2.1). These notes are not meant to be comprehensive and are intended for a technical audience.

I had a couple of people on Instagram ask for my notes, so here you go. Your mileage may vary as I already had a minimal build system in place. The most important step was the symbolic link step (step #2) to get the build to compile.

Ensure that you have Xcode and Homebrew installed before continuing.

  1. Install dependencies via Homebrew.
$ brew install cmake volk glew glfw airspy airspyhf hackrf rtl-sdr soapysdr rtaudio portaudio pandoc pkg-config codec2
  1. Create symbolic links for the Homebrew libraries and headers.
$ sudo ln -s /opt/homebrew/include /usr/local/include
$ sudo ln -s /opt/homebrew/lib /usr/local/lib
  1. Clone SDR++ git project.
$ git clone https://github.com/AlexandreRouma/SDRPlusPlus.git
$ cd SDRPlusPlus
  1. Build SDR++.
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. \
  -DOPT_BUILD_AUDIO_SINK=OFF \
  -DOPT_BUILD_BLADERF_SOURCE=OFF \
  -DOPT_BUILD_M17_DECODER=OFF \
  -DOPT_BUILD_NEW_PORTAUDIO_SINK=ON \
  -DOPT_BUILD_PLUTOSDR_SOURCE=OFF \
  -DOPT_BUILD_PORTAUDIO_SINK=ON \
  -DOPT_BUILD_SOAPY_SOURCE=ON \
  -DOPT_BUILD_SDRPLAY_SOURCE=ON
$ make -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
  1. Install SDR++.
$ sudo make install
  1. Start SDR++.
$ sdrpp
Gaston Gonzalez