Hi there., nowadays I'm playing around with micro controllers. Before to get involve with MCUs physically I wanted to try it virtually. As a Linux user I Googled for a linux software to simulate my MCU programs. I found out a software GPSIM (GNU PIC Simulator). But while I'm building the GPSIM I met with a problem and googled for the solution. Unfortunately there wasn't. So I get on to work and got a solution my self.
Basically it's required to install following dependencies before.
gputils (GNU PIC Utils)
sdcc (Small Device C Compiler)
Then it's time to build and install the GPSIM
while I'm executing the ./configure I met with a problem. first there popt.h file missing. so I have to install package included that header file. and then the biggest problem was occurred
To install gpsim, it's required to be installed gtkextra-2.0 package.
I couldn't find out the gtkextra-2.0. Instead of that I have installed gtkextra-3.0
But while I configuring, terminal prompts an Error.
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
configure: error: Cannot find gtkextra-2.0 package
configure: error: Cannot find gtkextra-2.0 package
Although there's no problem with gtkextra package I examined the source code of the configure file. I saw that there's a code in the configure file which is shown below
$PKGCONFIG --exists gtkextra-2.0
if test $? != 0; then
as_fn_error $? "Cannot find gtkextra-2.0 package" "$LINENO" 5
fi
X_LDFLAGS=`$PKGCONFIG --libs gtk+-2.0 gthread-2.0`
X_CFLAGS=`$PKGCONFIG --cflags gtk+-2.0`
Y_LDFLAGS=`$PKGCONFIG --libs gtkextra-2.0`
Y_CFLAGS=`$PKGCONFIG --cflags gtkextra-2.0`
GTK_VERSION_T=`$PKGCONFIG --modversion gtk+-2.0`
this code always search for the older version of the gtkextra package even computer has it's latest version. So I replaced 'gtkextra-2.0' with 'gtkextra-3.0'
Note: Keep a copy of the Configure file before you edit it.
Note: You cannot edit it without root privileges. So use
$ sudo gedit configure
Note: Always replace your currently running gtkextra package version. It's gtkextra-3.0 in my case. To find out version of yours
$ pkg-config --list-all | grep gtk
Note: install any other dependencies. In my case I had missing packages libpopt-dev (for popt.h)
Then I was able to get through the configuration process painlessly. Then executed
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install
I thought that it's almost done. But it wasn't, an error was prompted.
~/gpsim-0.26.1$ gpsim
gpsim: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkextra-x11-3.0.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Searched for the missing package 'libgtkextra-x11-3.0' library and downloaded the built packages
libgtkextra-x11-3.0-0 and libgtkextra-x11-3.0-dev
installed sequently
$ sudo dpkg -i libgtkextra-x11-3.0-0_3.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libgtkextra-x11-3.0-dev_3.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
then it works without any trouble ... :D
