Re: [Iverilog-devel] Icarus keys in the Windows registry

[Martin W. <mai...@ma...>]

Stephen Williams wrote:
> Ironically, after re-reading this post, I realized that setting the
> path is exactly what we expect of users in order to get access to
> the iverilog-vpi  tool in the first place. So, logic fail on my part.
>
> Still, it was my choice in the first place to locate the mingw tools
> via the registry (not that I ever really use Windows) and my thinking
> was to simplify the experience as much as possible, and also to not
> pollute the users path any more then necessary. So if not a registry
> entry, perhaps a .ini file in the iverilog install directory?
>
Users who have installed the MinGW compiler will most likely have added it to 
their path already - otherwise they won't be able to use it to compile C 
programs. In this case the current procedure complicates the user experience, 
because they have to run iverilog-vpi to set a path that is already known to 
the system. So I suggest a better solution is to first search the current path 
for the MinGW compiler, and if it is not found, prompt the user to enter a 
path and store it in a .ini file for future use.

Martin