I have the feeling that not many users are using an Apple MAC for SDR development and testing using the LimeSDR.
I have spent better than two work days trying to get LimeSuite to install on one of my Macbook Pro units. One unit installed successfully. The second…no love.
I may be that the second unit had several Python versions installed…don’t know.
I used the same method on both, ‘pothos and homebrew’:
* brew tap pothosware/homebrew-pothos
* brew update
* brew install limesuite
and verified the dependencies. However, the install was unsuccessful, with 2 errors with ‘libtiffxx’.
I decided to delete the /usr/Limesuite folders and try the unix installation method. Here, I had the same problem with an unresolved ‘include’ that was noted in an earlier ‘MAC’ thread. I edited the two header files to point to the right include and redid the ‘cmake’ and ‘-j4’ which proceeded without the error but the binary file failed to build.
I feel like I need to back everything out, even remove all my python installations, homebrew installations and any other remanents but I don’t know what I should be backing out.
I would love to hear from other MAC users about their experiences and ‘best practices’ to install the LimeSuite application.
BTW, LimeUtil works fine on both and can find the LimeSDR with the --find argument. This tells me that the USB drivers are fine on both MACs…