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halfmanhalftaco / fpga-docker

Tools for running FPGA vendor toolchains with Docker
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No longer maintained #7

Open benjamin051000 opened 1 year ago

benjamin051000 commented 1 year ago

This is a fabulous idea. Quick-and-easy quartus installs is like a dream come true to me, especially since the Linux installers require a lot of outdated dependencies (I use Fedora and Modelsim 20.1 does not work on install).

There are 10 forks of this repo, but none seem to be actively developing the project. Are there any forks out there that are actively maintained?

halfmanhalftaco commented 1 year ago

It would be fantastic if someone wanted to take up the helm of keeping this updated, as you've noticed I don't really check in here much and this is just a silly hobby project of Makefiles and shellscripts held together with some really cheap glue. There's certainly problems and I never really tested full functionality of every "supported" version in here. It really just came out of not wanting to install a mess of 32-bit dependencies on a 64-bit system and figured throwing it in a container was a good idea.

I know right now that Intel has changed many of the download links so builds generally fail because of that. Perhaps some of the old versions aren't even downloadable directly from Intel anymore. I've also seen some Docker-related problems on new versions of Docker that I haven't had time to sit down and address.

benjamin051000 commented 1 year ago

What I've been using lately is https://distrobox.privatedns.org/! It is a similar idea to this project: Use docker to create an environment that looks and feels like another distro. I installed Xilinx's tools in it and they work just fine. Honestly it's probably the best solution right now for installing FPGA tools on non-official distros.