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mortbopet / Ripes

A graphical processor simulator and assembly editor for the RISC-V ISA
https://ripes.me/
MIT License
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which version is compatible with Mac Mojave 10.14.6 ? #282

Open doremifajb opened 1 year ago

doremifajb commented 1 year ago

Hello, I would like to install RIPES to my Macbook Pro mid 2012 with Mojave. Could you tell me which version is installable ? I tried a few newer versions but did not work. Thanks!

mortbopet commented 1 year ago

Did you try one of the continuous releases? Hopefully those should work with both old and new apple silicon, assuming that you have the latest OS. Apart from that, i don't do much to maintain releases for mac (seeing as i don't own a machine), and mainly defer this to other people who are interested in mac support. If those releases do not work, i think your best bet is to run the linux application under some form of virtualization.

doremifajb commented 1 year ago

Thank you for the info! I just updated my Mac to Catalina and gave it a try, but none of the three files with "mac" worked... I have a win 8.1 under virtualbox, so I guess I'm going to try to use it there....

doremifajb commented 1 year ago

Hello again, it didn't work with win 8.1, I guess it's also too old. But I have a Raspberry Pi 4B, so I downloaded Ripes-v2.2.6-10-g4a49101-linux-x86_64.AppImage , did chmod u+x and double clicked it. I chose "execute". But nothing happened. Tried Ripes-v2.2.6-11-g91ceebb-linux-x86_64.AppImage but the same thing.... I thought Pi OS is a linux? Or is this not meant to work on RasPi?

mortbopet commented 1 year ago

That most likely depends on the OS that you're using on your RPi.

If you have a more recent windows installation available, you can easily run the Linux version through WSL. I've even seen Ripes run much, much faster through WSL than the native windows version.

doremifajb commented 1 year ago

No... I don't have anything recent other than Raspberry pi;; and have no windows hardware. I just installed Win 10 on Virtualbox on my mac and tried with win version. After downloading a few dll files, I still get Screenshot 2023-05-23 at 21 54 41 Much the same as with win 8.1...

Is there any way to make it work on win 10? Or, better win 8.1 ? I could also install Linux on Virtualbox, but since I need win anyway, it would be nice if I can get win version work. If not, what kind of linux should I get? I would appreciate your advice!

doremifajb commented 1 year ago

Now I installed Ubuntu: ubuntu-22.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso on Virtualbox, but Ripes doesn't work there.... I tried both versions, made executable and run, but nothing happens.

mortbopet commented 1 year ago

that sounds very strange - I'm sorry that you're having to go through these troubles to run the application, it usually works out of the box! On ubuntu, what happens if you run it through a terminal - does anything write to stdout?

doremifajb commented 1 year ago

With ubuntu, there was another problem, that terminal didn't even run ! I installed another terminal (terminator or so), and then did chmod +x. But it still didn't work. Since several other applications didn't work either, I decided that perhaps ubuntu is too much for my macbook pro mid 2012 (dual core cpu, but upgraded 16GB RAM), I decided to try "lubuntu": light-version. lubuntu-22.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso (I picked one from https://linux.how2shout.com/6-best-linux-distros-to-try-on-virtualbox-virtual-machine/)

It still didn't work... Now I tried to run through a terminal (execute in terminal). Then a shell showed up with a message, "Are you sure you want to exit?". Regardless of if I click yes or no, nothing happens. On lubuntu, other things seem to work, so I think it is working fine (but upon booting it shows a message "failed to send log to host".) Is Ripes supposed to work with any regular linux ?

mortbopet commented 1 year ago

Ideally, yes, seeing as it's distributed as an appimage.