installing Electric VLSI tool on Mac

[Sujata Devaramani]

I have installed electric-7.00 for my macOS. when I click on icon it's not opening. please help me to fix. 

[Steven Rubin]

Why are you trying to install Electric 7.00 when that is decades old? The latest is 9.07.

   -Steven Rubin

On 10/10/2023 6:34 AM, Sujata Devaramani wrote:

I have installed electric-7.00 for my macOS. when I click on icon it's not opening. please help me to fix.  --
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[Sujata Devaramani]

sir I'm trying from many days to install 9.07 version and after getting your reply again I tried but when I click on app its not opening. 

[Alexandre Rusev]

You need to install Java (Oracle JDK-8 for is a good choice). Your system is likely does NOT support running with "mouse clicking" of .jar files (that is a formata of Java executable)

You can run Electric without any mouse clicking at all;)

[1] Install JDK for MacOS

[2] Open terminal and make shure that java is in your searchpath.

     Can be added to searchpath in  your terminal with command likes this:

     export PATH=/opt/jdk1.8/bin:$PATH

     (read about MacOS shell PATH variable)

[3] in terminal window go to the directory where  electricBinary-9.07.jar resides, using cd command,

     example:

    

     cd /home/Desktop/My-Music/

[4] Run your Electric

     java -jar electricBinary-9.07.jar

       or with full path to java

     /opt/jdk1.8/bin/java -jar electricBinary-9.07.jar

See the same discursion here plz: https://groups.google.com/g/electricvlsi/c/7IwhO25KNCA

PS:

   If you want to use EDA tools you need to learn how executables are runned in your OS,

   I mean internal mechanics but not mouse-clicking.

   Virtually almost no EDA CAD can run with setting up environment and so on

  (Cadence, Synopsys, Calibre...)

Alex

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[Sujata Devaramani]

thank you sir i was trying with jdk17 and 21 but now i installed jdk1.8 its opening.

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[Alexandre Rusev]

Sorry I had to pint it out directly - currently Java8 == JDK1.8 is minimal version to run Electric.

Very nice hat you are learned it experimentally !;)

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