This requires qt 3 or later. See http://www.trolltech.com To support the widgets needed for this code you need Qwt, available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/qwt For Linux, this may be obtained from: http://n4hy.org/Qwt/qwt-5.0.0.tar.bz2 On NetBSD or other pkgsrc systems, pkgsrc/x11/qwt exists and seems to be a much older version linked against qt2. You need qt3! QTDIR is an environment variable that must be set for gr-qtgui to make. On Ubuntu with a standard apt-get or synaptic install, this is done by: export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3 on Fedora Core 6 for example it is automatically set to /usr/lib/qt-3.3 by Qt install from the Fedora Core software setup. If you are building from source from n4hy.org, the untar the bz2 ball, cd into the qwt-5.0.0 directory and run qmake Now edit the file qwtconfig.pri and make the INSTALLBASE = /usr/local run make sudo make install and qwt will be loaded into /usr/local/lib and the includes will be in /usr/local/include gr-qtgui will now make. which must be run as root (as in sudo) so that files are installed in the proper place for the gnuradio build (such as qwt.pc).