MacOS 经验分享

[Yufeng98]

Fix Issues on MacOS

Verilator

Fail to compile from source code in GitHub Repositary. Use brew install verilator to install 4.200 version, slightly behind the latest 4.204 version, but also works well.

GTKWave

Avoid Security Check

Add --no-quarantine to avoid security protection on MacOS. Use brew install gtkwave --no-quarantine to install GTKWave.

Strange Error

/usr/local/bin/gtkwave: line 122: test: too many arguments
/usr/local/bin/gtkwave: line 149: test: ==: unary operator expected
find: /share/locale: No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/gtkwave: line 215: /usr/local/bin/../../../Contents/Resources/bin/: No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/gtkwave: line 215: exec: /usr/local/bin/../../../Contents/Resources/bin/: cannot execute: No such file or directory

GTKWave on macOS gives a good solution.

TL;DR

Use Perl’s package manager to install Switch and run binary with full path.

cpan install Switch
perl -V:'installsitelib'
/Applications/gtkwave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gtkwave

Adjust Build Script

In build.sh, some commands only works in Linux.

1. There is no -f option with readlink in MacOS. Use SHELL_PATH=$(pwd) to show current directory.

2. There is no hostnamectl command in MacOX. Use hostname instead.

3. Substitute gtkwave with full path /Applications/gtkwave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gtkwave

[hamster-shy]

关于macos15的分享：

• nemu找不到.so文件：关注macOS上的动态库格式。
• homebrew的gtkwave弃用：去该代码仓库的相关issues的找找。