Install SystemC 2.3.0 in Mint 13/Fedora

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.

GCC 4.6 breaks SystemC

When upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10, SystemC programs won't work anymore.
Update your makefiles to include the -fpermissive flag, like so:

SYSTEMC=/usr/local/systemc
LDFLAGS= -L$(SYSTEMC)/lib-linux -lsystemc
CXXFLAGS=-Wno-deprecated -I$(SYSTEMC)/include -fpermissive

all:
 g++ $(CXXFLAGS) *.cpp $(LDFLAGS)
 ./a.out

You may need to recompile the SystemC library, which case the flag must be added to the configure command:

$ sudo ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/systemc CPPFLAGS=-fpermissive

By giving the syntax above, I also managed to get SystemC running in Fedora. Goodbye Ubuntu!

Hello World in SystemC

Create two files and run it at the Shell prompt.

1. Edit the CPP file first.

// All systemc modules should include systemc.h header file
 #include "systemc.h"
 // Hello_world is module name
 SC_MODULE (hello_world) {
   SC_CTOR (hello_world) {
     // Nothing in constructor 
   }
   void say_hello() {
     //Print "Hello World" to the console.
     cout << "Hello World.\n";
   }
 };
 
 // sc_main in top level function like in C++ main
 int sc_main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
   hello_world hello("HELLO");
   // Print the hello world
   hello.say_hello();
   return(0);
 }

2. Then create a Makefile. This makefile is reusable for all SystemC projects.

SYSTEMC=/usr/local/systemc
LDFLAGS= -L$(SYSTEMC)/lib-linux -lsystemc
CXXFLAGS=-Wno-deprecated -I$(SYSTEMC)/include -fpermissive

all:
 g++ $(CXXFLAGS) *.cpp $(LDFLAGS)
 ./a.out

3. The command "make" compiles and runs the Hello World program.

$ make
g++ -Wno-deprecated -I/usr/local/systemc/include  *.cpp -L/usr/local/systemc/lib-linux -lsystemc
./a.out

             SystemC 2.2.0 --- Aug 25 2011 10:30:16
        Copyright (c) 1996-2006 by all Contributors
                    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Hello World.

Install SystemC 2.2.0 on Ubuntu 11.04

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, I was able to install SystemC on 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

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Begin borrowed material

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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-2.2.0.tar
$ tar xvf systemc-2.2.0.tar

Alternatively, download the file using wget from another site with the correct extension:

$ wget http://panoramis.free.fr/search.systemc.org/?download=sc220/systemc-2.2.0.tgz
$ tar xvfz systemc-2.2.0.tgz

Ooops! Turns out you can't use wget. Copy the URL to your browser location bar, answer a simple a question and the file will be downloaded. In any case, no need to reveal you email for this option!

In any case, create a build directory and enter into it for the following steps:

$ cd systemc-2.2.0
$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/systemc
$ mkdir objdir
$ cd objdir
$ export CXX=g++
$ sudo ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/systemc CPPFLAGS=-fpermissive

Step 2: Patch.

Using new versions of GCC such as GCC 4.4, we will fail to compile because 2 lines of code were left out of systemc-2.2.0/src/sysc/utils/sc_utils_ids.cpp.

Method 1: You can just just open the file and add these includes at the top of the file (after the header comments):

#include "cstdlib"
#include "cstring"
#include "sysc/utils/sc_report.h"

Replace the " signs with less than and greater than signs (because this blog site treats the the pair of characters as HTML tags).

Method 2: You patch it using a prewritten patch file.

$ wget http://www.pfb.no/files/systemc-2.2.0-ubuntu10.10.patch
$ patch -p1 < ../systemc-2.2.0-ubuntu10.10.patch

Method 3: Patch it using sed:

$ sed -i '1 i #include "cstdlib"\n#include "cstring"' ../src/sysc/utils/sc_utils_ids.cpp

Step 3: 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 4: 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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I still could not get SystemC installed in Fedora. :(

SystemC on Mac

SystemC works on Mac!

Thanks to the folks at Logic Poet, SystemC on Mac is much easier than on Windows and Linux. Get then installer here and install it. You know how to install an app in Mac, don't you? don't you?

The important files are installed in /Library/SystemC/Current.

For your compulsory Hello World in SystemC, first create a New Project by keying Shift-Apple-N. When you get this dialog, choose SystemC app:

You can also see there's other types of SystemC projects available including TLM and AMS. Anyway, you'll get a dummy program FOC. Let's name the project "sc_hello". You will then get this:

Build it by hitting Apple-B. Run it by clicking on Product->sc_hello on the control pane on the left:

Congratulations! Now you can forget about SystemC on Linux, or gasp, on Visual Studio!...

SystemC Tutorials

• SystemC Tutorial for VHDL Engineers
  
• SystemC Tutorial at ASIC World - Incomplete
  
• SystemC from Scratch
  
• SystemC: An Introduction for Beginners
  
• SystemC Tutorials at SCLive site. SCLive is a live Linux distro just for SystemC.
  
• Installing SystemC in Ubuntu
  
• SystemC Resource Page