Compile and Install of the Icarus Verilog Tool

This repository contains a make file for easy compile and install of Icarus Verilog. Icarus Verilog is a verilog compilation and simulation system.

This make file can build the icarus verilog tool on the following systems:

• Linux
• Windows
  • MSYS2/mingw64
  • MSYS2/mingw32

Get Source Code

ed_iverilog

Get the code for this component to a local directory on your PC.

git clone https://github.com/embed-dsp/ed_iverilog.git

Icarus Verilog

Get the code for Icarus Verilog.

# Enter the ed_iverilog directory.
cd ed_iverilog

NOTE: If this is the first time Icarus Verilog is built, then ...

# Clone the Icarus Verilog git repository.
make clone

Otherwise just pull the latest updates ...

# Pull latest updates from the Icarus Verilog git repository.
make pull

Edit the Makefile for selecting the Icarus Verilog source version.

# Edit Makefile ...
vim Makefile

# ... and set the Icarus Verilog source version.
PACKAGE_VERSION = master
# PACKAGE_VERSION = v12_0

Build

# Checkout specific version and rebuild configure.
make prepare

# Configure source code.
make configure

# Clean any old build artifacts before compiling.
make clean

# Compile source code using 8 simultaneous jobs (Default).
make compile

Install

Linux

# Install build products.
sudo make install

The Icarus Verilog package installs correctly according to the GNU Coding Standards. The build products are installed in the following locations:

/opt/
└── iverilog/
    └── iverilog-master/    # prefix:
        ├── include/        # includedir: Include directory.
        │   ├── iverilog
        │       ...
        ├── linux_x86_64/   # exec_prefix: 64-bit binaries and libraries for Linux
        │   ├── bin/        # bindir:
        │   │   ├── iverilog
        │   │   ├── vvp
        │   │   ...
        │   └── lib/        # libdir: Library directory.
        │       ├── libveriuser.a
        │       ├── libvpi.a
        │           ...
        └── share/          # datadir: Architecture independent data files.
            ...

Windows: MSYS2/mingw64 & MSYS2/mingw32

# Install build products.
make install

The Icarus Verilog package installs correctly according to the GNU Coding Standards. The build products are installed in the following locations:

/c/opt/
└── iverilog/
    └── ...

Tested System Configurations

The following system configurations have been tested.

System	OS
linux	Fedora-40 64-bit
mingw64	Windows-10 64-bit
mingw32	Windows-10 64-bit

Prerequisites

Fedora-40 64-bit

sudo dnf install gcc-c++
sudo dnf install autoconf
sudo dnf install gperf
sudo dnf install flex
sudo dnf install bison