Installing Microchip Tools via podman or docker

• Download the Libero and SoftConsole installers
• Request a License from Microchip
• Install the license
• Build the container + Launch the licensing daemon
• Run libero from inside the container

Download the Libero and SoftConsole installers

• Download Libero from here.
• Place it in ./installers/
• Download SoftConsole from here.
• Place it in ./installers/

Unzip libero:

cd installers
unzip Libero_soc_*.*_web_lin.zip
cd ..

Request a License from Microchip

Install the license

mv /path/to/License.dat ./licenses/.

Open the license in a text editor and change these lines:

SERVER <put.hostname.here> <your mac address> 1702
DAEMON actlmgrd  PATH/actlmgrd
DAEMON mgcld PATH/mgcld
VENDOR snpslmd  PATH/snpslmd

to

SERVER <put.hostname.here> <your mac address> 1702
DAEMON actlmgrd  /opt/microchip/Libero_SoC_v2024.1/Libero/bin64/actlmgrd
DAEMON mgcld /opt/microchip/Libero_SoC_v2024.1/Libero/bin64/mgcld
VENDOR snpslmd  /opt/microchip/Libero_SoC_v2024.1/Libero/bin64/snpslmd

Your mac address should already be placed there so don't worry about that.

Build the container + Launch the licensing daemon

make daemon

Run libero from inside the container

podman exec -it --user root libero bash
. /opt/microchip/scripts/env
libero