AWB Installation Ubuntu

AWB Installation Ubuntu

These instructions cover Ubuntu 14.4 (Trusty). Instructions for older versions of Ubuntu can be found here.

Build requirements for awb/asimcore

Beyond the normal build tools the following packages need to be installed:

% sudo apt-get install subversion cvs git
% sudo apt-get install g++
% sudo apt-get install libpopt-dev  libqt4-dev perlqt-dev zlib1g-dev 
% sudo apt-get install libterm-readline-gnu-perl libio-pty-perl
% sudo apt-get install scons
% sudo apt-get install libenum-perl

Build requirements for LEAP/FPGA-based designs

The following are needed for LEAP builds:

% sudo apt-get install python-pygraph python-ply python-glpk expect-dev

Optionally you might find the following packages useful for debugging:

apt-get install verilog gtkwave 

Bluespec

Bluespec requires an older version of libgmp, a multiprecision arithmetic library used by Haskell. Without a suitable version of libgmp, Bluespec dies with error:

[keflemin-vs-lin64-2 pm(45)] bsc
/proj/vssad/local/x86_64_linux31/pkgs/Bluespec/lib/bin/linux64/bsc: error while loading shared libraries: libgmp.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Unlike 12.04, 14.04 does not include a backwards compatible package in apt. Fortunately, since this package has no dependencies, we can just use the old package from 12.04. First, we need to tell apt about 12.04. In /etc/apt/sources.list.d/precise.list put

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe

And now

% apt-get update
% sudo apt-get -t precise install libgmp3c2

Packages required for m5 (used by HAsim Alpha simulations)

# apt-get install swig flex bison

Continue with the system-wide installation.