Build CubicSDR for Arch Linux

Currently, there is no prebuilt binary in Arch package repository. And the AppImage in Github release page is too old to run. So I have to build it myself.

Why Not AUR

There are cubicsdr-git and cubicsdr in AUR.

I tried cubicsdr-git, it need to compile WxWidgets, which is super time-consuming.

Hey, we already have prebuilt WxWidgets in Arch package repository, why bother to compile an old version?

Building CubisSDR

You can follow dependencies list in cubicsdr-git.

Some dependencies like freeglut are already installed in my machine.

So I just install some new dependencies:

pacman -S wxwidgets-gtk3 hamlib soapysdr liquid-dsp

Clone and build:

git clone https://github.com/cjcliffe/CubicSDR.git
cd CubicSDR
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DUSE_HAMLIB=1
make -j $(nproc)

Done.

You still need soapy plugins for your device. For rtl-sdr:

pacman -S soapyrtlsdr