Build GHDL with mcode backend for MINGW32

[ugrossm]

Package name

GHDL

For which environment do you need the package?

MINGW32

Provide a brief description why you need this package in the selected environment

As far as I know this is the only way to use the mcode backend for simulating VHDL code with GHDL on Windows.
It used to be in the group mingw-w64-i686-eda which is recommended by the maintainers of GHDL for end-users like me (see ghdl/ghdl#1785).
The mcode backend does not build an executable like the other backends but creates a in-memory model. Therefore it is much faster than the other backends when simulating many small testbenches in a test suite.
The Support mcode back-end on Windows x64 is still missing. So could you please re-enable the package mingw-w64-i686-ghdl-mcode until the 64bit support for mcode is available?

Are you willing to submit a PR?

No response

[MehdiChinoune]

@umarcor What do you think?

[MehdiChinoune]

GHDL announced deprecating GCC/mcode backend https://github.com/ghdl/ghdl/blob/4b20cd9e/NEWS.md#2024-03-06-40

[tgingold]

mcode is now support on mingw64. I plan to release ghdl 4.1 soon.

[MehdiChinoune]

I have updated GHDL to 4.1.0 and a new (split) package ghdl-mcode for both mingw64 and ucrt64.