Building UHD on Raspberry PI 3B+

[Haider037]

Issue Description

I am building a UHD driver on a raspberry pi 3 B+ Model. When doing sudo make install it says "Building CXX object python/CmakeFiles/pyuhd.dir/pyuhd.cpp.o Then it says: c++: fatal error: killed signal terminated program cc1plus compilation terminated. make[2]: *** [python/cmakefiles/pyuhd.dir/build.make:82: python/Cmakefiles/pyuhd.dir/pyuhd.cpp.o] error 1 make[1]: *** [cmakefiles/makefiles2:5431: python/cmakefiles/pyuhd.dir/all] error2 make: *** [Makefile:182: all] Error 2

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[Haider037]

The last thing it says during the make process before the error comes up is
"[ 98%] Building CXX object python/CMakeFiles/pyuhd.dir/pyuhd.cpp.o"
And it stays at that stage for a long time before it exits the code with the error mentioned above.

[NI-LAm]

@Haider037 Could please provide some more details, like:

• What Distrubution is installed on the RasPi?
• Which uhd Version are you trying to build?
• What cmake command did you use for configuration?

Please also post full logs of the configure and build process.

[Haider037]

1. Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian)
2. Version 4.0.0
3. cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="-march=armv7ve -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a53 -Wno-psabi" -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING="-march=armv7ve -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a53 -Wno-psabi" -DCMAKE_ASM_FLAGS:STRING="-march=armv7ve -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a53 -g" ../

The tags are on my raspberry pi and I am currently on my MacI have to run the cmake line above and it's taking a while, so I will try and post It on here if I get it working. But I am pretty sure all the builds pass until it gets to 98% like stated above.

[Haider037]

Here are the tags
After running this command:

cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="-march=armv7ve -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a53 -Wno-psabi" -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING="-march=armv7ve -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a53 -Wno-psabi" -DCMAKE_ASM_FLAGS:STRING="-march=armv7ve -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a53 -g" ../

...@raspberrypi:~/uhd/host/build $ cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="-march=armv7ve -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a53 -Wno-psabi" -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING="-march=armv7ve -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a53 -Wno-psabi" -DCMAKE_ASM_FLAGS:STRING="-march=armv7ve -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a53 -g" ../
--
-- Configuring the Python interpreter...
-- Manually determining build Python version...
-- Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python3.9 Version: 3.9.2
-- Override with: -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=<path-to-python>
-- Manually determining runtime Python version...
-- Python runtime interpreter: /usr/bin/python3.9 Version: 3.9.2
-- Override with: -DRUNTIME_PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=<path-to-python>
-- Finding Python Libraries...
-- Python Libraries: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpython3.9.so
-- Python include directories: /usr/include/python3.9
-- Operating on master branch.
-- Using UHD Images Directory: /usr/local/share/uhd/images
-- Build type not specified: defaulting to release.
--
-- Configuring Boost C++ Libraries...
--
-- Checking for Boost version 1.65 or greater
--   Looking for required Boost components...
--   Enabling Boost Error Code Header Only
--     Disabling boost::asio use of std::string_view
--   Boost version: 1.74.0
--   Boost include directories: /usr/include
--   Boost library directories: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf
--   Boost libraries: Boost::chrono;Boost::date_time;Boost::filesystem;Boost::program_options;Boost::serialization;Boost::thread;Boost::unit_test_framework;Boost::system
-- Looking for Boost version 1.65 or greater - found
--
-- Python checking for compatible Python version
-- Python checking for compatible Python version - 3.9.2 satisifes minimum required version 3.6
--
-- Python checking for Mako templates module
-- Python checking for Mako templates module - 1.1.3 satisifes minimum required version 0.4.2
--
-- Python checking for requests module
-- Python checking for requests module - 2.25.1 satisifes minimum required version 2.0
--
-- Python checking for numpy module
-- Python checking for numpy module - 1.19.5 satisifes minimum required version 1.11
--
-- Python checking for ruamel.yaml module
-- Python checking for ruamel.yaml module - "import ruamel.yaml" failed (is it installed?)
--
-- Configuring LibUHD support...
--   Dependency Boost_FOUND = TRUE
--   Dependency HAVE_PYTHON_MODULE_MAKO = TRUE
--   Enabling LibUHD support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_LIBUHD=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring LibUHD - C API support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Enabling LibUHD - C API support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_C_API=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring LibUHD - Python API support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Dependency HAVE_PYTHON_MODULE_NUMPY = TRUE
--   Dependency HAVE_PYTHON_LIBS = TRUE
--   Enabling LibUHD - Python API support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_PYTHON_API=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring Examples support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Enabling Examples support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_EXAMPLES=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring Utils support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Enabling Utils support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_UTILS=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring Tests support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Enabling Tests support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_TESTS=ON/OFF
--
-- Could NOT find DPDK (missing: DPDK_INCLUDE_DIRS DPDK_LIBRARIES) (Required is at least version "18.11...21.11")
--
-- Configuring USB support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Dependency LIBUSB_FOUND = TRUE
--   Enabling USB support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_USB=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring B100 support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Dependency ENABLE_USB = ON
--   Enabling B100 support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_B100=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring B200 support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Dependency ENABLE_USB = ON
--   Enabling B200 support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_B200=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring USRP1 support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Dependency ENABLE_USB = ON
--   Enabling USRP1 support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_USRP1=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring USRP2 support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Enabling USRP2 support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_USRP2=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring X300 support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Enabling X300 support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_X300=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring MPMD support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Enabling MPMD support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_MPMD=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring SIM support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Dependency ENABLE_MPMD = ON
--   Dependency ENABLE_PYTHON_API = ON
--   Enabling SIM support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_SIM=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring N300 support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Dependency ENABLE_MPMD = ON
--   Enabling N300 support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_N300=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring N320 support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Dependency ENABLE_MPMD = ON
--   Enabling N320 support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_N320=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring E320 support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Dependency ENABLE_MPMD = ON
--   Enabling E320 support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_E320=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring E300 support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Dependency ENABLE_MPMD = ON
--   Enabling E300 support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_E300=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring X400 support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Dependency ENABLE_MPMD = ON
--   Enabling X400 support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_X400=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring OctoClock support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_LIBUHD = ON
--   Enabling OctoClock support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_OCTOCLOCK=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring DPDK support...
--   Dependency ENABLE_MPMD = ON
--   Dependency DPDK_FOUND = FALSE
--   Disabling DPDK support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_DPDK=ON/OFF
--
--
-- Configuring priority scheduling...
--   Priority scheduling supported through pthread_setschedparam.
--   Setting thread names is supported through pthread_setname_np.
--   Setting thread affinity is supported through pthread_setaffinity_np.
--
-- Configuring module loading...
--   Module loading supported through dlopen.
--
-- Configuring atomics support...
--   Atomics support is built-in, no linking required.
--
-- Processing NI-RIO FPGA LVBITX Bitstreams...
--   Using x300.lvbitx_base for codegen
--   Using x310.lvbitx_base for codegen
--
-- USB support enabled via libusb.
--
-- Configuring interface address discovery...
--   Interface address discovery supported through getifaddrs.
--
-- Loading build info.
-- Could NOT find Curses (missing: CURSES_LIBRARY CURSES_INCLUDE_PATH)
--
-- Adding B2XX device test target
-- Adding X3x0 device test target
-- Adding E3XX device test target
-- Adding N3XX device test target
-- Adding E32x device test target
-- Adding X4x0 device test target
--
-- Could NOT find Curses (missing: CURSES_LIBRARY CURSES_INCLUDE_PATH)
--
-- Configuring Manual support...
--   Dependency DOXYGEN_FOUND = YES
--   Enabling Manual support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_MANUAL=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring API/Doxygen support...
--   Dependency DOXYGEN_FOUND = YES
--   Enabling API/Doxygen support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_DOXYGEN=ON/OFF
--
-- Found GZip: /usr/bin/gzip
--
-- Compressed Man Pages enabled
--   Override with -DENABLE_MAN_PAGE_COMPRESSION=ON/OFF
--
-- Configuring Man Pages support...
--   Dependency NOT_WIN32 = TRUE
--   Dependency GZIP_FOUND = TRUE
--   Enabling Man Pages support.
--   Override with -DENABLE_MAN_PAGES=ON/OFF
--
-- Python checking for virtual environment
-- Python checking for virtual environment - "assert sys.prefix != sys.base_prefix" failed
--
-- Python checking for gevent module
-- Python checking for gevent module - "import gevent" failed (is it installed?)
--
-- Python checking for mprpc module
-- Python checking for mprpc module - "import mprpc" failed (is it installed?)
--
-- Python checking for pyudev module
-- Python checking for pyudev module - "import pyudev" failed (is it installed?)
--
-- Python checking for pyroute2 module
-- Python checking for pyroute2 module - "import pyroute2" failed (is it installed?)
-- MPM unit test Python package prerequisites not met; skipping
--
-- Utilizing the python install directory: /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages
--
-- ######################################################
-- # UHD enabled components                              
-- ######################################################
--   * LibUHD
--   * LibUHD - C API
--   * LibUHD - Python API
--   * Examples
--   * Utils
--   * Tests
--   * USB
--   * B100
--   * B200
--   * USRP1
--   * USRP2
--   * X300
--   * MPMD
--   * SIM
--   * N300
--   * N320
--   * E320
--   * E300
--   * X400
--   * OctoClock
--   * Manual
--   * API/Doxygen
--   * Man Pages
--
-- ######################################################
-- # UHD disabled components                            
-- ######################################################
--   * DPDK
--
-- ******************************************************
-- * You are building the UHD development master branch.
-- * For production code, we recommend our stable,
-- * releases or using the release branch (maint).
-- ******************************************************
-- Building version: 4.4.0.0-265-ga2a04e31
-- Using install prefix: /usr/local
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/.../uhd/host/build


After running sudo make:

...@raspberrypi:~/uhd/host/build $ sudo make
[  1%] Built target uhd_rpclib
[  4%] Built target uhd-resources
[ 50%] Built target uhd
[ 50%] Built target tx_timed_samples
[ 51%] Built target network_relay
[ 51%] Built target tx_bursts
[ 51%] Built target test_messages
[ 51%] Built target spi
[ 51%] Built target rx_samples_to_udp
[ 51%] Built target benchmark_rate
[ 51%] Built target rfnoc_nullsource_ce_rx
[ 51%] Built target tx_samples_from_file
[ 51%] Built target sync_to_gps
[ 51%] Built target tx_waveforms
[ 51%] Built target txrx_loopback_to_file
[ 51%] Built target test_pps_input
[ 51%] Built target usrp_list_sensors
[ 52%] Built target test_timed_commands
[ 52%] Built target latency_test
[ 53%] Built target gpio
[ 53%] Built target rfnoc_rx_to_file
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[ 56%] Built target rx_multi_samples
[ 56%] Built target uhd_test
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[ 98%] Building CXX object python/CMakeFiles/pyuhd.dir/pyuhd.cpp.o

Then after a long time of the machine staying at 98% it crashes and spits this out

"Building CXX object python/CmakeFiles/pyuhd.dir/pyuhd.cpp.o Then it says: c++: fatal error: killed signal terminated program cc1plus compilation terminated. make[2]: *** [python/cmakefiles/pyuhd.dir/build.make:82: python/Cmakefiles/pyuhd.dir/pyuhd.cpp.o] error 1 make[1]: *** [cmakefiles/makefiles2:5431: python/cmakefiles/pyuhd.dir/all] error2 make: *** [Makefile:182: all] Error 2

I hope this has everything you need.

[NI-LAm]

So, your config looks good. From the error message you get and the RasPi you are using I assume you run out of memory during compilation (pyuhd.cpp is huge, it contains the full Python interface for UHD). If that's the case, you have several options:

• remove the Python interface if you don't need it (run cmake with DENABLE_PYTHON_API=OFF)
• increase the swap size on your PI (https://linuxhint.com/increase-memory-raspberry-pi/), this will further slow down your compilation process on the RasPI, because swap is so much slower than RAM.
• cross compile (e.g. using this https://github.com/tttapa/docker-arm-cross-toolchain) might be more effort at the beginning but compile times will reduce drastically.

As a side node. When building UHD yourself for this specific platform you might want to disable components you don't need (e.g. disable all the devices you do not need support for).

[Haider037]

Okay after removing the python interface everything installed and make passed with no errors. But now when I am creating my code on gnu radio and running it on my pi this is what comes up

Generating: '/home/.../uhd/host/build/fmReceiver.py'

Executing: /usr/bin/python3 -u /home/.../uhd/host/build/fmReceiver.py

[INFO] [UHD] linux; GNU C++ version 10.2.0; Boost_107100; UHD_3.15.0.0-4
[WARNING] [B200] EnvironmentError: IOError: Could not find path for image: usrp_b200_fw.hex

Using images directory:

Set the environment variable 'UHD_IMAGES_DIR' appropriately or follow the below instructions to download the images package.

Please run:

"/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/uhd/utils/uhd_images_downloader.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/.../uhd/host/build/fmReceiver.py", line 263, in
main()
File "/home/.../uhd/host/build/fmReceiver.py", line 239, in main
tb = top_block_cls()
File "/home/.../uhd/host/build/fmReceiver.py", line 83, in init
self.uhd_usrp_source_0 = uhd.usrp_source(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gnuradio/uhd/init.py", line 125, in constructor_interceptor
return old_constructor(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gnuradio/uhd/uhd_swig.py", line 2791, in make
return _uhd_swig.usrp_source_make(device_addr, stream_args, issue_stream_cmd_on_start)
RuntimeError: LookupError: KeyError: No devices found for ----->
Empty Device Address

Done (return code 1)

I ran the exact same code on my MacBook and used the same usrp device and it connected/ worked perfectly. But on my pi this is what comes up.

[Haider037]

I have installed all the images necessary, or at least I think I have and I see the files under the utils and the build directories

[NI-LAm]

So you are using a B200 connected via USB with the Pi? Do you have separate power supply for the B200? I could imagine that the Pi does not deliver sufficient power to run the B200. Please try first to see the device using uhd_find_devices before run any experiments with Gnuradio. I also strongly suggest to ask for help in the mailing list, if you run into trouble with that.

[Haider037]

Yes it is connected to my Pi via usb and when I run uhd_find_devices it shows up with the serial number and everything as well

[NI-LAm]

So if uhd_find_devices works well then power should not be an issue. If you want to use the GnuRadio Companion you will need the UHD Python interface. In that case you should try either increasing the swap or cross compile UHD.

[Haider037]

are you sure I will need the interface? because I have seen it work without I think, unless I am mistaken.

[Haider037]

I re installed the uhd with the python interface but it still says that it cant read the device on gnu radio, but when I run uhd_find_devices or uhd_usrp_probe the device comes up.

[NI-LAm]

When you say "it can't read the device on gnu radio" - do you use the GnuRadio companion or do you have written your own GnuRadio script? Does your GnuRadio instance run on the Pi as well?
If UHD runs on your Pi but GnuRadio cannot access it, it is probably a good idea to ask the GnuRadio mailinglist for support.

[Haider037]

Im using the companion

[NI-LAm]

Is the companion running on the Pi or on your Mac?

[Haider037]

pi all of this is on my pi

[NI-LAm]

The GRC script says it tries to load a 3.15 UHD version. Is that the one you have build on your Pi? How did install the companion? Did you compiled it by youself or via package manager? In both cases can you share some details about the versions you use? You might have to tell GRC where to find your UHD binaries.