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Gtkwave

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.

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/learn @gtkwave/Gtkwave
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Supported Platforms

Universal

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GTKWave

GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ based wave viewer for Unix and Win32 which reads FST, and GHW files as well as standard Verilog VCD/EVCD files and allows their viewing.

Building GTKWave from source

Installing dependencies

Debian, Ubuntu:

apt install build-essential meson gperf flex desktop-file-utils libgtk-3-dev libgtk-4-dev \
            libbz2-dev libjudy-dev libgirepository1.0-dev

Fedora:

dnf install meson gperf flex glib2-devel gcc gcc-c++ gtk3-devel gtk4-devel \
            gobject-introspection-devel desktop-file-utils tcl

macOS:

brew install desktop-file-utils shared-mime-info       \
             gobject-introspection gtk-mac-integration \
             meson ninja pkg-config gtk+3 gtk4 json-glib

Building GTKWave

git clone "https://github.com/gtkwave/gtkwave.git"
cd gtkwave
meson setup build && cd build && meson install

Running GTKWave

gtkwave [path to a .vcd, .fst, .ghw dump file or a .gtkw savefile]

For more information about available command line parameters refer to the built in-help (gtkwave --help) or the gtkwave man page.

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CategoryDevelopment
Updated6h ago
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C

Security Score

100/100

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