Re: gEDA-user: Get iverilog working on cygwin/winME/98

["Shing-Fat (Fred) Ma" <fma@doe.carleton.ca>]

OK, thanks.  I'll take another look at the installation procedure.

Fred
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Stephen Williams wrote:

> fma@doe.carleton.ca said:
> > If anyone has been able to get iverilog working with cygwin on winME/
> > 98 without mingw, could I contact you and find out what you did?
>
> I've specifically focused on Windows support *with* mingw. This gets
> me a Windows "native" binary so is much easier to install by an installer
> and its behavior is consistent with normal Windows programs. The mingw.txt
> file in the source distribution gives build instructions.
>
> You do need Cygwin *and* mingw to compile it. The instructions explain
> what is going on here.
>
> If you really want a Cygwin binary, the biggest obstacle will be the
> poor DLL support, as Icarus Verilog does a lot of dynamic loading of
> object files.
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