Question - how to include last commits of apicula in nextpnr

[laurentiuduca]

Hi,

I have seen that now apicula with last commits supports tang nano 20k. I did not find a how to include the version of apicula with these commits in nextpnr compilation. So, please give us instructions of how to do this.

Thank you

[pepijndevos]

The most up to date on how to build apicula and nextpnr is always https://github.com/YosysHQ/apicula/blob/master/.github/workflows/chipdb.yml

But yeah we should update the readme once all the changes have stabilized a bit.

[yrabbit]

The brave may look at the line in the CI file, but this is at their own peril and risk and no consultation until the official instructions in the README ;)

https://github.com/YosysHQ/apicula/blob/cff0cd80654652b63ff2f48daed3b4956e6da12b/.github/workflows/chipdb.yml#L305

[laurentiuduca]

nextpnr$ cmake . -DBUILD_PYTHON=OFF -DARCH="gowin;himbaechel" -DHIMBAECHEL_GOWIN_DEVICES="GW1N-1;GW1NZ-1;GW1N-4;GW1N-9;GW1N-9C;GW1NS-4;GW2A-18;GW2A-18C" -DPython3_EXECUTABLE=${{ steps.pysetup.outputs.python-path }} bash: -DPython3_EXECUTABLE=${{ steps.pysetup.outputs.python-path }}: bad substitution

any ideas? thank you

[yrabbit]

you don't have to copy this letter by letter - this is just an example of how to compile nextpnr

[pepijndevos]

To be more specific, remove the whole -DPython3_EXECUTABLE=${{ steps.pysetup.outputs.python-path }} since it is just to tell CI where to find Python. Just make sure you use the same python binary for Apicula and nextpnr and you should be good.

[yrabbit]

Lost relevance with the release of nextpnr with himbaechel-gowin