Thanks to these tips from http://archive.pfb.no/2010/10/13/systemc-ubuntu-1010/ and http://noxim.sourceforge.net/pub/Noxim_User_Guide.pdf.
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Step 0: Prepare.
Obviously, you need to have a compiler. Do this step in case you haven't done so.
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Step 1: Download.
Next: register, and download from http://www.systemc.org using your Web browser then unpack it....but the tgz file has wrong extension. Do these steps to unpack the file:
$ mv systemc-2.2.0.tgz systemc-2.3.0.tar $ tar xvf systemc-2.3.0.tar
In any case, create a build directory and enter into it for the following steps:
$ cd systemc-2.3.0 $ sudo mkdir /usr/local/systemc $ mkdir objdir $ cd objdir $ export CXX=g++ $ sudo ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/systemc CPPFLAGS=-fpermissive
Step 2: Compile
$ make $ sudo make install $ make check $ cd .. $ rm -rf objdir
The command make check is optional. What is does is to compile SystemC source files to see if the files can run. I strongly suggest that you run it.
Step 3: Tell your compiler where to find SystemC
Since we do not install SystemC with a standard location we need to specifically tell the compiler where to look for the libraries. We do this with an environment variable.
$ export SYSTEMC=/usr/local/systemc/
This, however will disappear on the next login. To permanently add it to your environment, alter ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile if it exists. For system wide changes, edit /etc/environment. (newline with expression: SYSTEMC_HOME=”/usr/local/systemc/“) To compile a systemC program simply use this expression:
$ g++ -I. -I$SYSTEMC/include -L. -L$SYSTEMC/lib-linux -o OUTFILE INPUT.cpp -lsystemc -lm
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HOWEVER, version 2.3.0 is not really ready. Any problems...you're on your own, since it's so new. That's why I'm back at 2.2.0.
