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Marten Lohstroh edited this page Oct 5, 2021 · 26 revisions

For convenience, we have prepared a VM image that has Lingua Franca and all of its dependencies installed. We provide a base image, which is more compact and intended for quick experimentation with LF, and a development image, which is set up as a full development environment for (new) LF contributors.

Downloads

Go to https://vm.lf-lang.org/ and download one of the following images:

  • Base Image x86_64: Ubuntu-for-LF.ova (4.6GB)
  • Development Image x86_64: Ubuntu-for-LF-dev.ova (TBA)

Base Image

Steps followed to produce this image

  • Create a new VirtualBox image with 4 GB RAM, 32 GB disk space (dynamically allocated), 96 MB video, 4 CPUs
  • Install 20.04.3 LTS Desktop (minimal installation)
  • Set hostname: lfvm; user: lfvmu (LF VM User); and password: lfvmu (auto login)
  • Disable automatic screen lock
  • Set screen resolution to 1360x768 (16:9)

Install packages

  • sudo apt install cmake curl g++ git libprotobuf-c-dev libprotobuf-dev maven openjdk-11-jre protobuf-c-compiler protobuf-compiler python3-pip

Install nodejs

  • curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash
  • nvm install 14.18.0
  • npm install -g pnpm
  • Add PATH="$HOME/.nvm/versions/node/v14.18.0/bin:$PATH" to ~/.profile

Install lfc and epoch

  • Download artifacts from release page
  • Add lfc and epoch to $PATH by adding these two lines to ~/.profile:
PATH="$HOME/lf-tools/epoch:$PATH"
PATH="$HOME/lf-tools/lfc/bin:$PATH"
  • Create epoch.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications (or /usr/share/applications) with following contents:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Epoch IDE
Comment=IDE for Lingua Franca
Exec=/home/lfvmu/lf-tools/epoch/epoch
Icon=/home/lfvmu/lf-tools/epoch/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
  • chmod +x epoch.desktop
  • Add epoch to favorites (Gnome dock)

Configure Firefox

  • clear Firefox history
  • set Firefox homepage to https://wiki.lf-lang.org/

Known Issues (VirtualBox)

  • Problem (1): Copy/paste between the host and VM (and vice versa) do not seems to work, even though the machine is configured with bidirectional copy/paste.
  • Problem (2): The resolution does not match the host OS.
  • Solution: Install "VirtualBox Guest Additions" (i.e., find the specific iso provided for your guest OS, load it in the virtual CD drive, and then install it on the guest OS).

Development Image

Steps followed to produce this image

Change hostname to lfvm-dev

  • Change entry in /etc/hostname
  • Change entry in /etc/hosts

Increase disk size

  • Increase size of Ubuntu-for-LF-dev.vdi to 96GB
  • sudo apt install gparted and sudo gparted; increase /dev/sda2 (ext. partition) and /dev/sda5 (primary partition mounted as /) to 96GB

Install packages

  • sudo apt install the following packages:
autoconf automake autotools-dev bc build-essential bison curl device-tree-compiler flex gawk gperf libmpc-dev libmpfr-dev libgmp-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libexpat-dev libtool patchutils pkg-config texinfo verilator zlib1g-dev

Install riscv-gnu-toolchain

  • git clone https://github.com/riscv/riscv-gnu-toolchain
  • ./configure --prefix=/opt/riscv --enable-multilib
  • make
  • Add /opt/riscv/bin to $PATH (/etc/profile since the install is global as well)

Install riscv-tools

  • git clone https://github.com/riscv-software-src/riscv-tools.git
  • cd riscv-tools, then:
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
$ export RISCV=/opt/riscv/tools
$ ./build.sh

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