[myhdl-list] Re: myhdl on windows platform?

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

Arnold wrote:
> Jan,
> 
> Thank you for your quick reply.
> 
> Another question is about using cygwin to compile python on windows: can I
> use mingw32 to compile python instead of cygwin? If yes how can I achieve
> that.

I have no personal experience with either - so below
is just my impression from some Internet searches.

When you mention mingw, is that because Icarus Verilog
on windows seems to move in that direction and deprecate
the cygwin port?

From what I found it seems that building Python itself
with mingw is quite hard. I found an explanation, but it
seems so complex that you may want to avoid it when possible.
On the other hand, it seems that building Python with cygwin
shouldn't be harder than on a typical Unix box (on Linux,
my experience has been that it is trivial).

So it seems that your best bet is to use a cygwin Python.
As the simulator is a separate program, it should be
perfectly possible to use mingw for the simulator and
the VPI stuff provided by MyHDL, and co-simulate
in that way.

Hope this helps (and let us know if you get it to work, too!),

Jan

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