GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ based wave viewer for Unix and Win32 which reads LXT, LXT2, VZT, FST, and GHW files as well as standard Verilog VCD/EVCD files and allows their viewing.
- If you compile a GIT version: Type
./autogen.sh - Type
./configure --enable-gtk3(or./configurefor GTK+ 2) makemake install(as root)
Make sure you copy the .gtkwaverc file to your home directory or to your
VCD project directory. It contains the prefs for a good configuration
that most people find ergonomic. It is not strictly necessary however.
[Note: for mingw with gtk+-2, you don't need to do anything except have pkg-config in your PATH however the following note is from Thomas Uhle.]
Important to know is to compile with CFLAGS=-mms-bitfields in Windows in order to link correctly
to the GTK+ dlls. This is how I did configure GTKWave with additional optimisation switches:
./configure CFLAGS='-Wall -O3 -mcpu=i686 -mms-bitfields -ffast-math -fstrict-aliasing'After that you may just call make the usual way.
Note that Ver Structural Verilog Compiler AET files are no longer supported. They have been superceded by LXT. Also note that the AMULET group will be taking over maintenance of the viewer effective immediately.
Add these flags to your compile for new warnings on AMD64:
-g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic
on i386:
-g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
I had to do the following to get it to install directly. Please include in INSTALL .txt as an option for ubuntu users. Other linux distributions might have other things to do.
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
./configure --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.4 --with-tk=/usr/lib/tk8.4If your compile fails because gzopen64 cannot be found, you will either have to fix your Ubuntu install or use the version of libz in gtkwave:
./configure --enable-local-libzsudo apt-get install libjudy-dev
sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev
sudo apt-get install liblzma-dev
sudo apt-get install libgconf2-dev
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install tcl-dev
sudo apt-get install tk-dev
sudo apt-get install gperf
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbufConfigure then as:
./configure --enable-judy --enable-struct-pack --with-gconfInstall MacPorts then
sudo port -v selfupdate
sudo port install Judy tcl tk xz-devel gtk2If Quartz is used:
sudo port install gtk-osx-application
./configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-judy --enable-struct-pack "CFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include -O2 -g" LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib --no-create --no-recursionTcl works in the OSX version of gtkwave starting with version 3.3.26.
At this point all features working on Linux should be functional on the Mac, except that twinwave does not render to a single window when Quartz is used instead of X11.
If you wish to use llvm, also add CC=llvm-gcc and change the -O2 in CFLAGS
to -O4.
At the current time Quartz support is experimental. Please report any bugs encountered as compared to X11 function.
Note that the preferred environment for Quartz builds is jhbuild. To build gtkwave as an app bundle (while in jhbuild shell):
./configure --enable-judy --enable-struct-pack --prefix=/Users/$USER/gtk/inst
make
make install
cd contrib/bundle_for_osx
./make_bundle.shThis assumes that Judy arrays and XZ were both already compiled and installed.
If Judy arrays are not installed, do not add --enable-judy.
If XZ is not installed, add --disable-xz.
The current environment used is modulesets. Bug 664894 has an interim fix in
the binary distribution by applying patches using the
contrib/bundle_for_osx/gtk_diff_against_modulesets.patch file.
pacman -Syuu
[repeat "pacman -Syuu" multiple times until environment stabilizes]
pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git subversion mercurial mingw-w64-i686-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
pacman -S base-devel mingw-w64-toolchain mingw-w64-i686-gtk2
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gtk2
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk2
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gtk3
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3 Add --enable-gtk3 to the ./configure invocation to build against GTK3.
This causes the GTK+ frontend to be built with gtk3 instead of gtk2.