User mode driver for Airspy HF+

This repository contains host software (Linux/Windows) for Airspy HF+, a high performance software defined radio for the HF and VHF bands.

http://www.airspy.com/airspy-hf-plus

How to build host software on Windows:

For VisualStudio 2013 or later:

• git clone https://github.com/airspy/airspyhf.git host
• Download https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/download/v1.0.20/libusb-1.0.20.7z
• Extract libusb-1.0.20.7z to host directory
  • You should have host\libusb-1.0.20
• Download ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/pthreads-win32/pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release.zip
• Extract pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release.zip to host directory
  • You should have host\libpthread-2-9-1-win
• Navigate to src and Launch airspyhf.sln with VisualStudio 2013 or later
• In Visual Studio, choose Release, x86 or x64 then Build Solution

For MinGW:

git clone https://github.com/airspy/airspyhf.git host

cd host

mkdir build

cd build

Normal version:

cmake ../ -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DLIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/libusb-1.0/

Debug version:

cmake ../ -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DLIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/libusb-1.0/

make

make install

How to build the host software on Linux:

Prerequisites for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian):

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libusb-1.0-0-dev pkg-config

Build host software on Linux:

wget https://github.com/airspy/airspyhf/archive/master.zip

unzip master.zip

cd airspyhf-master

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ../ -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON

make

sudo make install

sudo ldconfig

Clean CMake temporary files/dirs:

cd airspyhf-master/build

rm -rf *

Principal authors:

Ian Gilmour ian@sdrsharp.com and Youssef Touil youssef@airspy.com

http://www.airspy.com

This file is part of Airspy HF (with user mode driver based on Airspy R2, itself based on HackRF project see http://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/).