Does Ripes has a console mode?

[alvesfonseca]

Is there any switch which allows for pure cli execution?

I mean, something similar to SPIM (for MIPS architecture).

[mortbopet]

Nope! but it could definitely be interesting to get something like this up and running. Interactions with the processor model itself is fairly independent of having GUI components enabled, however, some of the telemetry is fairly GUI intertwined.

[mortbopet]

Started a branch here to begin this process. My plan is to build the foundation of the support (process input, run the model) and then let the tasks of gathering telemetry, printing output, etc., be open issues for the public to help in developing.

[mortbopet]

834f962 introduced some initial support for this.
Try it out in the continuous build e.g.:

./Ripes --mode cli --src complexMul.s -t asm --proc "RV32_6S_DUAL" --isaexts M,C --cpi --cycles

[alvesfonseca]

Dear Morten,
Great!
I will try it and will also try to gather some support (devel workforce) from students I advise.
I have teaching interests on RiscV and it would be nice to have a cli-mode on Ripes.
We intend to use cli-mode in a electronic judge system for students.
The idea is provide programming contests/exercises/assignments focused on RiscV assembly language.
We already do it with SPIM (a cli-mode MIPS simulator).

[mortbopet]

Awesome, let me know if you need anything special to support that.
Added support for emitting JSON formatted output, so that would probably be useful for this:
./Ripes --mode cli --src ${input}.s -t asm --proc "RV32_5S" --isaexts M,C --regs --json --output ${outfile}