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The easiest way to install PandA is to download the AppImage package from our website. The AppImage is a self-contained pre-built distribution of the PandA framework that requires only a minimum set of prerequisites to be installed on the host machine.
You can find the latest PandA AppImage at https://release.bambuhls.eu/.
The following steps are needed to run the PandA AppImage distribution:
Running PandA AppImage requires a minimum set of prerequisites to be installed in the host operationg system.
For Debian-based OS the following command may be used:
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential gcc-multilib g++-multilib libfuse-dev
For CentOS/RHEL-based OS the following command may be used:
sudo dnf install -y fuse-libs gcc gcc-c++ glibc-devel.i686 libgcc.i686 libstdc++-devel.i686 ncurses-devel.i686
Now you may download your preferred PandA AppImage distribution from https://release.bambuhls.eu/. You may use the following command to get the latest stable version:
wget https://release.bambuhls.eu/bambu-latest.AppImage
You may use the following command to get the latest development version:
wget https://release.bambuhls.eu/bambu-latest-dev.AppImage
Once the download has completed, you need to give execution permissions to the AppImage package as follows:
chmod +x bambu-latest.AppImage
Now you may use the AppImage directly as the PandA Bambu HLS executable as follows:
./bambu-latest.AppImage --help
To use PandA framework tools easily you can create special links to the AppImage package directly in your system bin directory. As an example, to install PandA Bambu HLS tool system-wide you can use the following command:
ln -s /absolute/path/to/downloaded/bambu-latest.AppImage /usr/bin/bambu
After that, you can launch PandA Bambu HLS directly from any shell by just typing bambu.
The same procedure is valid for any of the PandA framework tools:
The AppImage distribution is a self-contained package where all the dependencies required for the execution of PandA tools are embedded, thus generated scripts may not be able to run successfully outside this environment. If you need to run generated scripts, like the HW/SW co-simulation script, you can start a shell within the AppImage environment by doing as follows.
First, create a link to the AppImage file and name it panda_shell:
ln -s /absolute/path/to/downloaded/bambu-latest.AppImage panda_shell
Now launch the shell using the panda_shell link just created and use it as normal to launch PandA-related tools and scripts.
./panda_shell
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