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    Building Js8call and WSJTX Under Raspberry Pi OS - Bullseye - Edited

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    4/9/23, 9:43 AM Building js8call and wsjtx under Raspberry Pi OS - Bullseye

    11/13/21    (https://groups.io/g/KM4ACK-Pi/message/6369)
     Dafcho Tabakov Edited (https://groups.io/g/KM4ACK-Pi/messagehistory?id=195743327) 11/13/21

    Hi,

    Maybe you know that recently Raspberry Pi OS got a next stable upgrade, which is based on Debian 11 (codename Bullseye). That is nice, because a lot of new stuff is packaged in the distro and bugs are
    fixed. Our hamradio use of Raspberry Pi computer relied on some really nice programs and Build-a-Pie script to install them. Alas the new version of the Raspberry Pi OS makes things a little bit difficult for a
    while. For example we can't install recent version of wsjtx on Bullseye, because the binary package from the author is compiled for older Raspberry Pi OS version and the libraries needed for running wsjtx are
    old and not available in Bullseye.
    But there is some good news - we can install both js8call and wsjtx from source. The build process is similar for both of them and we need about 45-60 minutes for the task. Most of the time is spent on actual
    compiling and we doesn't have to stay in front of the computer.

    So let's begin

    JS8CALL

    First we need to allow installing source packages in Raspberry Pi OS

    sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

    Look for these lines:

    # Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'


    #deb-src http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ (http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/) bullseye main contrib non-free rpi

    Remove the #  sign in front of deb-src so the line becomes like this:

    deb-src http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ (http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/) bullseye main contrib non-free rpi

    Save and exit.

    Next we need to make sure the system is up to date:

    sudo apt update

    sudo apt upgrade -y

    Let's install the needed libraries for js8call building:

    sudo apt-get build-dep js8call -y

    Last command installs everything including hamlib. If we are happy with older version of hamlib, provided by Raspberry Pi OS we doesn't need to remove it. But if we use hamlib via BAP we need to remove
    hamlib:

    OPTIONAL STEP, see above

    sudo apt remove libhamlib4 libhamlib-dev

    Next steps are well documented in js8call source code:

    mkdir ~/hamlib-prefix

    cd ~/hamlib-prefix

    git clone https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib.git (https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib.git) src

    ### Get the JS8Call Source

    mkdir ~/js8call-prefix

    cd ~/js8call-prefix

    git clone https://bitbucket.org/widefido/js8call.git (https://bitbucket.org/widefido/js8call.git) src

    Compile hamlib:

    cd ~/hamlib-prefix/src

    ./bootstrap

    mkdir ../build

    cd ../build

    ../src/configure --prefix=$HOME/hamlib-prefix \

        --disable-shared --enable-static \

        --without-cxx-binding --disable-winradio \

        CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections" \

        LDFLAGS="-Wl,--gc-sections"

    https://groups.io/g/KM4ACK-Pi/message/6369?p=%2C%2C%2C20%2C0%2C0%2C0%3A%3Acreated%2C0%2CJS8CALL+compiling+from+source%… 2/4
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    make

    make install-strip

    I prefer to run make command with -j 4 option to utilize all 4 cores of the RPi 4

    if you like execute

    make -j 4

    instead of

    make

    ### Compile JS8Call

    cd ~/js8call-prefix/src

    mkdir ../build

    cd ../build

    cmake -D CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=~/hamlib-prefix -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/usr/local ../src

    make

    make package

    again if we need speed execute make -j 4 instead of make

    Upon finishing there is a message like this:

    CPack: - package: /home/pi/js8call-prefix/build/js8call_2.2.1-devel_armhf.deb generated.

    The package is ready for install via apt command:

    cd ~/js8call-prefix/build/

    sudo apt install -y ./js8call_2.2.1-devel_armhf.deb

    Congratulations we have built and installed JS8Call. We can save the .deb package for later use in Bullseyeor to share it with a friend.

    ###WSJTX

    The process is similar. Most of the tasks are done in js8call steps.

    Install the needed libraries:

    sudo apt install qtmultimedia5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libboost-all-dev libfftw3-dev libreadline-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev portaudio19-dev

    Then we prepare a directory for compiling, download the source and unzip it and start the compiling. At the end we have a .deb package again, ready for install:

    mkdir ~/wsjtx-build

    cd ~/wsjtx-build

    wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wsjt/wsjtx-2.5.2/wsjtx-2.5.2.tgz (https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wsjt/wsjtx-2.5.2/wsjtx-2.5.2.tgz)

    tar xzf wsjtx-2.5.2.tgz

    mkdir build

    cd build

    cmake -DWSJT_SKIP_MANPAGES=ON -DWSJT_GENERATE_DOCS=OFF ../wsjtx-2.5.2

    cmake --build .

    cmake --build . --target package

    The last command produces our .deb file and shows it's location in the terminal window:

    CPack: - package: /home/pi/wsjtx-build/build/wsjtx-prefix/src/wsjtx-build/wsjtx_2.5.2_armhf.deb generated.

    It can be installed by apt command:


    sudo apt install /home/pi/wsjtx-build/build/wsjtx-prefix/src/wsjtx-build/wsjtx_2.5.2_armhf.deb

    https://groups.io/g/KM4ACK-Pi/message/6369?p=%2C%2C%2C20%2C0%2C0%2C0%3A%3Acreated%2C0%2CJS8CALL+compiling+from+source%… 3/4
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    We could also save the .deb file for future use.

    OK that's was all, I hope you can get js8call and wsjtx running on your Raspberry Pi computers powered by Bullseye.

    If you have questions please don't hesitate to ask me.

    --
    73 Daff, LZ1DAF

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