touchgfx natively on Linux

[carlosdelfino]

Greetings.

I'm a Linux user, I use Windows on a smaller notebook for tools like TouchGFX, but this is quite inconvenient.

Is there any plan to release a Linux version of TouchGFX Designer?

I saw in the documentation that there's a simulator and that it can even be used with Wine; I'll test it today, but it would be really good to have a native version.

Link where I saw information about the simulator: https://support.touchgfx.com/docs/introduction/prerequisites

thanks

[mathiasmarkussen]

Hello,

For now, only Windows is supported for running the Designer.

We are working on a major release that will run on Linux and Mac as well as Windows.

[Just Matt]

​@mathiasmarkussen Do you have a timeline on that release? 

I want to get 100% of windows and onto mac, need touchgfx sim at least. 

[mathiasmarkussen]

We expect to have this available by the end of 2027.

I believe you should be able to get the simulator running (not actually using Wine, the simulator is based on SDL, which is cross platform) as described in the link provided in the question using Homebrew instead of apt.

You may have to get an older version of Ruby at this point, there have been a few small changes to the available commands since the version provided by current TouchGFX.

The SDL components should be:

brew install sdl2

brew install sdl2_image

[Just Matt]

​@mathiasmarkussen 

SDL2 is installed, but this SDK’s simulator engine is an x86-64 Linux archive. How do we build or obtain the TouchGFX engine for macOS?

Or am I overlooking something? 

 

Thanks in advance!