setup ACTflow

Commands to setup ACT tools on your local computer (for MacOS).

setting up from scratch

mkdir -p $HOME/.local/act

echo 'export ACT_HOME=$HOME/.local/act' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'export PATH=$ACT_HOME/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc


echo $ACT_HOME  # Should print: /Users/yourname/.local/act
echo $PATH # Should include: /Users/yourname/.local/act/bin


brew install cmake boost libedit fmt zlib m4 llvm


export CXX=/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin/clang++


cd $ACT_HOME
git clone --recursive https://github.com/asyncvlsi/actflow.git
cd actflow
./build

updating actflow (should there be any updates on the github repo)

cd ~/.local/act/actflow

git pull
git submodule update --init --recursive
./build

NOTE: This ACT installation does not take into account for the Xyce integration. To integrate Xyce into ACT first install Xyce with the ACT specific build.

Clone the xyce build repo into your computer and build xyce.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/asyncvlsi/xyce_build

cd xyce_build

./build_cmake.sh

./build

Then, go into the folder were you cloned the actflow repo (ACT) and in that folder do

cd actsim

./grab_xyce.sh <path-to-xyce-build-dir> #Replace with the actual path generated when you ran ./build

Then you can do the steps in the first code block to install ACT, now with Xyce integrated.