Install UCB CHISEL on Windows 10 in easy way

Setup Environment

• Operation System: Windows 10
• Required Windows Feature: Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
• 1. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Windows Anniversary Update, 2016)
• 2. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Windows Creator Update, 2017, Recommendation)

Comment(Version):
For Start Menu Bash ICON and better bash console interface, I'm highly recommend update Windows to Creator Update.

Comment(Quota):
Please, preserve lots of free space on C disk for Ubuntu installation and setup packages. Because no options for Ubuntu installer (lxrun.exe) to change installation directory.

Install Steps

1. Install Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 14.04_RefLink 16.04_RefLink
   • Manual update Ubuntu by following commands in order:

   #Require password if not login as root 
   sudo apt-get update #update package information
   sudo apt-get upgrade #update packages
   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade #update ubuntu system

   • User Home Folder path in Windows and Ubuntu RefLink
   • File System for Windows Subsystem for Linux RefLink
   • [Ubuntu 14.04 LTS] Remove sudo: unable to resovle host message RefLink
   • [Ubuntu 14.04 LTS] Example: Edit /etc/hosts on my computer

   

2. Setup Initialization Script for login directory
   • Default is Windows system32 directory (where we invoke bash.exe), please don't do sudo rm -rf in system32 directory.
   • Add cd ~/ or your project directory into ~/.bashrc at last line.
3. Following Chisel (Ubuntu-like) Linux Installation RefLink
   • In this Example, working directory is D:\CompArch\Projects\, transformed identical path in Ubuntu bash is /mnt/d/CompArch/Projects/
   • If you want to save bash commands into bash script, please change line endings in editor.

   

   • Install Verilator is normally complete.

   

4. Run the Chisel tutorial RefLink
   • Build tutorial by Scala Build Tool

   

   • After long time to build Scala environment.

   

5. Happy Hardware Hacking!

Issues

1. [Ubuntu 14.04 LTS] Java version Problem
   • If Ubuntu has installed Java9(OpenJDK-9), the CHISEL resource would fetch failure on .jar resources.
   • Solution: Install OpenJDK-8 on Ubuntu 14.04LTS RefLink
   • Please check the java/javac is OpenJDK-8 for Chisel library. By following commands:

     sudo update-alternatives --config java sudo update-alternatives --config javac

   

2. [Ubuntu 14.04 LTS] Symbolic Link has recursive list file problem in current bash on windows, please change to native support directory /mnt/(logic disk in Windows Explorer)/. [Ubuntu 14.04 LTS]
   • Symbolic Link Directory RefLink
   • Remove Symbolic Link RefLink