RARS for Flatpak

RARS (RISC-V Assembler and Runtime Simulator) created by Benjamin Landers packaged for Flatpak

Documentation

Installation

1. Install Flatpak (with the Flathub repository)
2. Install RARS:

flatpak install flathub io.github.TheThirdOne.rars

3. Run RARS either from your desktop environment or from the command line:

flatpak run io.github.TheThirdOne.rars

File System Access

By default, RARS will only have access to the Desktop and Documents folders. To grant access to other folders, run:

flatpak override io.github.TheThirdOne.rars --user --filesystem=[Type/path]

See the Flatpak documentation for more information.

Environment Variables

Name	Default	Description
RARS_JAVA	None	Passes arguments directly to the Java command (Will override other environment variables)
RARS_SCALE	Screen width / 1920	Sets the sun.java2d.uiScale property (See documentation here)

Development

1. Install Flatpak (See this guide)
2. Install Flatpak builder (flatpak-builder; see this guide)
3. Install dependencies:

flatpak install org.freedesktop.Sdk org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.openjdk17 org.freedesktop.appstream-glib 

4. Build:

flatpak-builder build io.github.TheThirdOne.rars.yml --force-clean

5. Install:

flatpak-builder --user --install --force-clean build io.github.TheThirdOne.rars.yml

6. Test:

flatpak run io.github.TheThirdOne.rars
flatpak run io.github.TheThirdOne.rars h
RARS_SCALE=3.0 flatpak run io.github.TheThirdOne.rars
RARS_JAVA=bad-argument flatpak run io.github.TheThirdOne.rars

7. Validate metadata:

flatpak run org.freedesktop.appstream-glib validate io.github.TheThirdOne.rars.metainfo.xml
desktop-file-validate io.github.TheThirdOne.rars.desktop

License

• The RARS logo is under the MIT license.