Quoting michel agoyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi ,
> I wonder myself if it is possible to build ghdl on  Cygwin (Windows) as
> mentioned in the following html page : http://ghdl.free.fr/download.html
> and how ?
Yes it is possible, but hasn't been done for a long time.
This is not for beginners.  I think you may find pages on this.  Try a search
engine.

> What are the main issues with this approach ?
Difficult to create the installer.

> and why do you have chosen
> to distribute  a " pure " windows binary that is not able to build an
> executable or link to another native object file ?
You may want to slightly modify ghdl so that it can load a dll.

> In fact we are not able to implement "foreign" vhdl  functions  with
> the windows version nether using vpi or whatever else. It is a "killer"
> ( may be, I'm little excessive  ;-) )  restriction !
Ok.

> So, I would like to thank all the contributosr of this "essential " and
> wonderful open source project  and  If you can clarify  your vision of
> the road map of  the windows binary version  it could help me to
> understand if it is helpful  to contribute to build a Cygwin based
> version  or not.
Try to build a Cygwin version.
If you made patches I will be happy to integrate them.

Tristan.

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