openFPGALoader-gui

A small gtk4 GUI to flash your FPGA projects

Building

• Install openFPGALoader and have it available on your user $PATH variable
• Make sure you have gcc, make, glib-2.0, pkg-config, vte-2.91-gtk4 and gtk4 in your system, for Debian based systems:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install gcc make libglib2.0-0 pkg-config libgtk-4-dev

• Download this repository, go to repository root folder and run make in your shell

git clone https://github.com/Chandler-Kluser/openFPGALoader-gui.git
cd openFPGALoader-gui
make

• Binary file will be at bin folder

Release

If you do not want to build it in your computer, you can also download a built program and run it.

Attention

openFPGALoader-gui just assembles the shell command and runs that in terminal. Even using a binary release directly, you must have openFPGALoader installed and written in your $PATH variable

TO DOs

Only the option Flash with shell is fully functional. Notice that Flash with GUI option is not working properly, because:

• path parsing not supporting UTF-8 characters yet, using file paths with non UTF-8 charset can avoid this problem; and
• GUI Terminal (made with VTE Terminal) is not reading binaries with UTF-8 characters inside, depending on your FPGA model binary the problem cannot be avoided.