makefile: add support for built-in ghdl-yosys-plugin #2514
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ghdl-yosys-plugin provides an open source VHDL frontend based on GHDL, which allows Yosys to handle VHDL 1987, 1993, 2000 or 2008. There are two options for building ghdl-yosys-plugin:
On Windows, Yosys does not support loading plugins as external shared libraries, they need to be built-in. Therefore, using the second (not recommended) approach is required. It involves patching Yosys' Makefile: yosys.diff. That patch is harmless and having it upstreamed here can make building easier for less experienced users. After merging this PR, the build procedure would be:
/cc @tgingold