Xyce not loading, Mac OS Ventura 13.6.4

StefanSchippers / xschem

A schematic editor for VLSI/Asic/Analog custom designs, netlist backends for VHDL, Spice and Verilog. The tool is focused on hierarchy and parametric designs, to maximize circuit reuse.

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Xyce not loading, Mac OS Ventura 13.6.4 #163

Closed ekrathSNL closed 5 months ago

ekrathSNL commented 5 months ago

Hi. I installed xschem on my Mac OS Ventura 13.6.4 following the installation instructions. The issue I get is a perpetual loading screen. When I hover my mouse cursor over xschem, it will turn into a loading wheel. I don't get any warnings in the terminal and no errors pop up with ./configure or make.

These are the steps I've done to fix this so far:

Originally, my tcl and tk installations were out-of-date, which I received warnings for. I updated them and reinstalled python 3.10.11.
I installed every dependency that ./configure said was missing.
I updated the Makefile.conf CFLAGS and LDFLAGS based on https://github.com/StefanSchippers/xschem/issues/24.

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StefanSchippers commented 5 months ago

Fisrt of all try to start xschem with -x option. This will start xschem in console-only mode. You get a tcl prompt. type for example: xschem get version If you get an answer then xschem is alive. Type exit to quit.

For graphics to work you need to have XQuartz running.

There is a Readme file for MacOS systems, but since I don't have such system it is written collecting info from the community. In particular you need to get tcl and tk working on XQuartz (X11 emulation) and not on the native MacOS Quartz engine. https://github.com/StefanSchippers/xschem/blob/master/README_MacOS.md

ekrathSNL commented 5 months ago

Thank you. I was able to get it working!