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Writer's pictureNisal Panagoda

Run GTKWave in WSL

GTKWave is free waveform viewer for FPGA, ASIC Enginners. Here I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 in WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux) on Windows 10. I use Verilator to generate .vcd file.



  1. Download GTKWave from official site.

  2. Run ubuntu on WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux)

  3. untar and cd

  4. ./configure

  5. Then it will show all the requirements one by one. I had to install below.

  6. sudo apt-get install tcl-dev tk-dev mesa-common-dev libjpeg-dev libtogl-dev gperf

  7. sudo apt-get install gtk2.0

  8. Download http://tukaani.org/xz

  9. untar, cd, ./configure, make -j8 and sudo make install

  10. Go back to GTKWave directory

  11. ./configure , make -j8 , sudo make install

  12. You need a XServer running in windows. If not this is how setupt it.

  13. gtkwave <filename>.vcd

  14. [ To exit application you may have File -> Quit than clicking X in window ]




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