Re: gEDA-user: vhdl simulator in gEDA

[Günter Dannoritzer <dannoritzer@xxxxxx>]

Stuart Brorson wrote:
> 
> I thought about doing something like this.  Then I tried to build GHDL
> (and gcc-4.0.2) manually.  (I build all the CD's packages manually
> first so as to understand how they build when I put them into the CD.)
> Compilation of gcc (with vhdl enabled) failed on my FC1 machine.
> Therefore, I am leaning strongly towards just putting the tarballs on
> the CD for the user to find and manually install.  Unless, of course,
> I find my self with a lot of free time before the next CD
> release. . . . . 
> 
> Stuart
> 

Were you able to spend some more time on that?

I managed to compile ghdl under suse 9.3 and 10.0 manually. Now I am not
an expert, so I am not sure whether I will run into some other trouble.

Here is what I did.

I used:

- ghdl-0.20.tar.bz2
- gcc-core-4.0.2.tar.bz2

From suse have the ada compiler installed from the standard distribution.

Based on the ghdl installation instruction, unpacked both files and
copied the vhdl folder from ghdl into the gcc-4.0.2/gcc folder.

Created a /usr/local/ghdl folder.

Run ./configure with the options:
--enable-languages=vhdl
--prefix=/usr/local/ghdl
--program-prefix=ghdl-

Running make and make install worked without problem.
(I left out that some commands have to be run as su)

Setting the path to /usr/local/ghdl/bin I was able to compile and
simulate the examples given in the ghdl manual.

My thinking was to have ghdl be separate from the standard gcc
installation. That is why I added the program-prefix option. But as I
said, I am not an expert, so maybe down the road I will run into trouble
with that?

Thought this might be of interest to somebody.

Guenter