Hi, I was able to install and build docker. I attempted to follow the rest of the steps in 6. I then tried to test the install by running the phython script but face an issue. All of these commands in 6 should be done in my WSL under the OpenFASOC directory?

For the first screenshot, you may want to do these:

#Firstly, check whether the gdsfactory package is already there
python3 -m pip show gdsfactory
#Now, manually installed the package
python3 -m pip install -v gdsfactory==7.7.0

Yes. It has been installed.

Then, if the previous step is done, exit the container by typing

exit

and enter. Now, type in

docker rm -f glayoutcontainer

. Now, if you're working with wsl2 and windows 11 (as in my case), you'd want to install vcxsrv (xserver) to ease the use of GUI later: • Go to vcxsrv and click the download link (the latest version) • Go through the installation steps on this tutorial. Prior to setting the display environment, make sure that you also have set the firewall setting for vcxsrv as explained on the tutorial. • Now, get back to ubuntu terminal. Type in

vim ~/.bashrc

to open the rc file. Press

I

to enter the insert mode. Go down to the bottom of the file and insert these lines:

export DISPLAY=$(ip route|awk '/^default/{print $3}'):0.0
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1

and then press

Esc

to exit from the insert mode. Next, type :wq to exit and save the changes. After that run

source ~/.bashrc

. • Now, open another ubuntu terminal and type in the following command:

docker run --rm -it -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -v /mnt/wslg:/mnt/wslg -v $(pwd):$(pwd) -w $(pwd)  -e DISPLAY -e WAYLAND_DISPLAY -e XDG_RUNTIME_DIR -e PULSE_SERVER --name glayoutcontainer openfasoc:glayout

By now, you should've entered a new container as indicated by

root@containerID

. • Now, you can go to the location where you store the OpenFASOC directory. The remaining steps are shown in the docs. I'll put it here for convenience:

# assuming you are in the OpenFASOC directory
cd openfasoc/generators/glayout
python3 test_glayout.py

Okay, will attempt right now. I appreciate your time!

Whoops, sorry. I'll reupload the results.

Docker seems to be working

Can you do

sudo service docker start

?

Docker has started. Do I re enter the previous command?

Run

docker ps -a

to see the list of containers

woah

Now you can repeat the instructions I showed you

do I execute them as is or inside OpenFASOC?

It seems that you need to add sudo at the beginning of docker commands 😀

Sounds good!

@Freddy Hernandez @reivan glad that I read this thread.....thanks guys

You're welcome 👍