Run Synopsys VCS in Docker.
This would be useful in an shared environment for students to debug and simulate their Verilog code.
Install Docker and clone this repo to /opt/docker-synopsys.
You should have Synopsys SCL and VCS in /opt/Synopsys. The following directory structure is expected:
root@cpu:/opt# ls -lah /opt/Synopsys/*
/opt/Synopsys/scl:
total 72K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Dec 17 11:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Dec 17 11:46 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Dec 17 11:46 bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60K Dec 17 11:46 synopsys.dat
/opt/Synopsys/VCS:
total 448K
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 270 Sep 18 05:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Dec 17 11:46 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 46 Sep 18 05:10 admin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 18 05:10 amd64 -> ./linux64
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 3.4K Sep 18 05:10 bin
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 298 Sep 18 05:10 doc
drwxr-xr-x 49 root root 973 Sep 18 05:10 etc
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 56 Sep 18 05:10 gui
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1.7K Sep 18 05:10 include
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0M Sep 18 05:10 install.log
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 132 Sep 18 05:10 linux64
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 610 Sep 18 05:10 mmc
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 304 Sep 18 05:10 packages
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 18 05:10 suse64 -> ./linux64
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 62 Sep 18 05:10 vgcommon
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 46 Sep 18 05:10 vms
/opt/Synopsys/Verdi:
total 440K
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 189 Sep 18 05:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Dec 17 11:46 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 27 Sep 18 05:13 admin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 3.3K Sep 18 05:13 bin
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 681 Sep 18 05:13 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 442 Sep 18 05:13 font
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2M Sep 18 05:13 install.log
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 176 Sep 18 05:13 platform
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409 Sep 18 05:13 README.TXT
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 86 Sep 18 05:13 share
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 13K Sep 18 05:13 XFont
Your license file should be put in /opt/Synopsys/synopsys.dat. The hostname and MAC address of your license should match your host's, or maybe you need to append a --hostname <hostname> argument in start.sh.
Then build the Docker images and launcher program (to allow normal users run that specfied Docker images, for security):
# In /opt/docker-synopsys/docker
docker buildx build . -f Dockerfile.scl -t scl
docker buildx build . -f Dockerfile.synopsys -t synopsys
# In /opt/docker-synopsys/cli
makeOn your host startup, start the Synopsys SCL licensing server with /opt/docker-synopsys/start.sh.
Append export PATH=/opt/docker-synopsys/bin:$PATH to your /etc/profile to enable users to use commands we provided. Then vcs will be available system-wide. Docker will mount the user's home directory into created container so it's just like using VCS on the host.
You may also check VCS-Example for starting a project with VCS.