RTL-SDR experimental branch
rtl-sdr turns your Realtek RTL2832 based DVB dongle into a SDR receiver
Many different developments have been taken in this release. For an overview, see improvements
development tools have to be installed:
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake git
install the libusb-1.0 development package::
sudo apt-get install libusb-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev
git clone https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr.git
in case you want the development branch, e.g. for testing or preparing patches:
cd librtlsdr
git checkout development
by default, you should have the master branch, in doubt:
cd librtlsdr
git status
git checkout master
run cmake and start compilation. cmake will accept some options, e.g.
-DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON
, default is OFF
-DDETACH_KERNEL_DRIVER=ON
, default is OFF
-DPROVIDE_UDP_SERVER=ON
, default is OFF
-DWITH_RPC=ON
, default is OFF
-DLINK_RTLTOOLS_AGAINST_STATIC_LIB=ON
, default is OFF
-DRTL_STATIC_BUILD=OFF
, default is ON
: for MINGW on WIN32all cmake options are optional
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../ -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON
make
setup into prefix, usually will require sudo
:
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
GitHub Actions is used for development builds - for Linux (x86), MacOS and Windows x86 32/64. Cross-builds for Windows from a Linux machine: see cross_build_mingw32.sh or cross_build_mingw64.sh
http://superkuh.com/rtlsdr.html
https://osmocom.org/projects/rtl-sdr/wiki/Rtl-sdr
rtl_eeprom -n
' or 'rtl_eeprom -g realtek_sdr
'./install-blacklist.sh
Pull requests are always welcome but please make changes to, and pull request from, the development branch.
git remote add upstream [email protected]:librtlsdr/librtlsdr.git
git branch --track development origin/development
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/development