Re: gEDA-user: Re: [Mingw-users] Re: make: strip command can't find file

[Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>]

fma@doe.carleton.ca said:
> For any interested parties that might try this in the future, I'll
> just summarize what worked on to some degree:

This seems way more complicated then it ought to be, so I think
there are some bugs to fix.

I must admit that I haven't tried to debug the "make check" rule,
and the mingw.txt instructions skip that and go on to the install
assuming the build is OK.

The resulting binary is a Windows (DOS) binary, so it doesn't know
of or generate UNIX style directory separators. That is intentional
as most Windows users of Icarus Verilog are in fact Windows users
in general, for better or for worse.

Also, I concede that I assume that most Windows users are not the
least bit interested in compiling Icarus Verilog, and are instead
going to use the installer. Therefore, the compile process for the
Windows environment is not necessarily as slick as the UNIX compile.
Hell, even MacOS users are *far* more likely to want to compile
from source:-)

Patches are welcome.

   * To pass "make check", I changed all references to hello.vl and sqrt.vl
     to hello.v and sqrt.v, then renamed *.vl files to *.v (can't remember which
     files, but suffice to say all the Makefile's)

I can't imagine why this would make a difference.
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