Compiling SDV from Source

SDV is the open source controller for the Star*DV AMBE device.  SDV was written by Rick KD0OSS.  He leveraged techniques and some code in the G4KLX suite, and some GMSK Modem code by KI4LKF, but most of it is new code written by Rick.  SDV works with the G4KLX ircDDBGateway program, which manages linking and connecting to DPlus, DExtra and DCS reflectors as well as callsign routing using StarNET, CCS and ircDDB.

Compiled executables are provided for Windows and for Debian-based ARM hardfloat Linux platforms.  Installing and using the the Windows executables is described here.  Installing to a Debian Linux on the Pi is described here.  But you can also download the full source for SDV and compile it yourself for other platforms.  There are actually two versions of SDV source. 

• SDV-Qt provides a GUI interface on platforms with monitors (Linux 386 and x86 architectures, Windows, etc.)

• SDV-Pi requires an LCD plate with 5 input buttons and does not provide a GUI interface.  If your favorite ARM Linux is based on Red Hat or other systems, you can compile to that platform.

SDV source
SDV is open source software published under the GNU version 2 license.  The source is available for download.  Just join the stardboardt Yahoo Group and go to the Files area of the website to get the latest source.

SDV-Qt
To build on Linux:

• You will need QT 5.2.1 or greater
• You will need usb-1.0 dev files
• You will need libsamplerate0-dev
• You will need the FTDI D2XX libraries
• Run qmake stardv.pro
• Run make

To build on Windows:

• You will need Visual C++ Express
• You will need Qt >5.2.1 for Visual C++
• You will need libsamplerate libraries
• You will need the FTDI D2XX libraries
• Follow instructions from Qt web site to configure Visual C++ and Qt

Notes:

• Recommend using Qt Creater to compile
  • In Qt Creater, load project stardv.pro
  • You may have to edit the stardv.pro file to correct paths to needed libraries
• Go to http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.2/5.2.1/ and download the version of Qt that supports your Linux version. There are newer versions of Qt but they have not been tested with SDV.
  
  To run this installer you may need to make it executable. Below is an example:
       chmod +x qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.2.1.run
  Run the installer: ./qt-opensource-linux-x86-5.2.1.run
  
  You will need to install the USB-1.0 dev and libsamplerate0 dev libraries using your Linux distribution app install program. ie. apt-get or yum
  
  You will also need to install the Linux build tools. For example, on Ubuntu:
       sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake
  
  You will need the FTDI D2XX libraries.
  http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX/Linux/libftd2xx1.1.12.tar.gz
  Extract this file then cd to the created directory and do the following:
  To extract: tar -zxvf libftd2xx1.1.12.tar.gz
  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" ../
  make
  sudo make install
  
  Once all of this is installed you will need to cd to the stardv_source directory. Now run this command:
     /path to Qt5.2.1/5.2.1/gcc/bin/qmake stardv.pro  **Replace "path to Qt5.2.1" with the path you installed Qt to.
  Then run:   make
  If this succeeds you will have a file called stardv in the current directory. Run with: ./stardv

SDV-Pi
To build the Pi version:

• Download the source from the Files area of the starboarddt Yahoo Group into a new folder, for example: /sdv_dev
• install build-essential
• install libportaudio-dev
• cd /sdv_dev
• make
• As superuser: make install
• copy sdv.conf.tmp to  /etc/sdv.conf
• edit /etc/sdv/conf.  See this page for parms and values.
   

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