Re: gEDA: A Plea for Programming Help (Icarus Verilog)

[Holger Waechtler <holger-at-NOSPAMconvergence_dot_de>]

Stephen Williams wrote:
> aholtzma@ess4.engr.uvic.ca said:
> 
>>They don't advertise it much, but Xilinx officially supports running
>>their tools under wine on Linux. They even have the docs you need to
>>configure wine. 
> 
> 
> I know this, but the tools do not run under the version of wine
> that I'm using, and I need to use that version to support a different
> tool that does not even run under current versions of Windows. It is
> easier for me to reboot that machine (a fusebox machine for hardware
> development) into Windows and run Cygwin for the Xilinx tools.

I don't want to push you to use wine (since this would delay native 
xilinx support in Icarus Verilog and I would really like to see this;), 
but you can use several different versions of wine (and even several 
different configs) at the same time.

You'll have to install the different wine versions with different 
prefixes and then set the appropriate WINEPREFIX environment variable 
pointing to the right .wine config file for each version. The wine 
manpage describes several other environment variables that can be used 
to specify the winserver, the DLL path etc. Maybe you want to wrap this 
in a tiny script...


> I'm very eager to get Linux native tools from Xilinx, but even so,
> a test rig (the point of this thread) that runs under Cygwin would
> get us by until these tools come to pass.

:) (unfortunally I have zero perl knowledge, so sorry;)

Holger