How do I install GTKWave on Windows?

Question

I am desperately trying to install GTKWave on my Windows machine. Can anyone give me so tips or redirect me to a good tutorial (or even better, post a small tutorial here)?

I think the documentation is not very up to date since it says that GTKWave is available via Cygwin, which it isn't.

Haile

The first link from a quick Google for "gtkwave windows" leads to here: dspia.com/gtkwave.html – Flamen

@Martin Thompson hey, thank you. I already tried that but I can't get it working. What exactly do I have to do there? Which files do I have to place where? – Haile

Ahh. I assumed it would just work. Sorry! Do you need GTKWave specifically, or would any old VCD viewer work? – Flamen

Well, isnt GTKWave the only free one? – Haile

I'm sure there's others: google.co.uk/… – Flamen

apt-get install gtkwave channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488 :-) (not really because GUI is unsupported yet) – Coenocyte

Answer 1

I had the same problem once. To make it work you should have Cygwin or MinGW installed on your system. Download GTKWave and all_libs from dspia.com/gtkwave.html as Martin Thompson suggested. Then unzip everything into the same folder. The important thing to make it run under Windows is to put the executable gtkwave.exe into the subfolder all_libs/bin (this is were all the .dlls are located) or to add it to your path. This way I could make GTKWave run under Windows 7.

Doorstep

Answer 2

Binaries for current versions can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkwave/files/

Ophicleide

Answer 3

With login, I'm able to download "standalone" Windows executables from the GTKWave github project Actions page here.

Tuttle

Answer 4

I use WSL2 and VcXsrv (X11 server). You can use Ubuntu standard packages for iverilog, verilator, etc. Also, you can use the gtkwave under Linux and an X server to display windows. Ironically, many open source programs run FASTER using WSL2 versus the 'windows compatibility' layer that allow direct execution on Windows.

This did not exist in 2013 when the question was asked. However, I would consider this in modern day.

Haffner