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pascalkuthe / OpenVAF

An innovative Verilog-A compiler
https://openvaf.semimod.de/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Minimum installation required to run from Windows #100

Open tomhajjar opened 7 months ago

tomhajjar commented 7 months ago

"On Windows the MSVC build tools must be ....installed"

Can someone explain what has to be installed from "VisualStudioSetup.exe" to get the linker function required by OpenVAF? I really don't need more unused programs on my PC.

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dwarning commented 7 months ago

openVAF.exe alone needs the VCRUNTIME140.dll. Look for Visual C++ redistributable package 64-bit. If you install the "Desktop development with C++" option from the VS installer you can additional compile and link a very efficient ngspice executable for Windows. Free beer! But is a big bunch.

tomhajjar commented 7 months ago

I'm still having issues. I have used Qucs 0.0.19 to simulate Verilog-A project examples so I have cursory knowledge of the process.

I installed "Desktop development with C++" and got the identical errors shown below as before the install. I uninstalled "Desktop development with C++" and installed "Visual C++ redistributable package 64-bit" and still have errors.

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dwarning commented 7 months ago

You need both: Redistributable package to start openvaf.exe which obviously helped. Please! And you need link.exe from Build tools for Visual Studio and perhaps other things like SDK. There are lots of hints in internet doing that e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55603111/unable-to-compile-rust-hello-world-on-windows-linker-link-exe-not-found. It is preferable to use the latest nightly build of openvaf from the Readme of this github. nigbt_org.va was left over from the former Qucs version <= 0.19. You can't compile it with openVAF.

tomhajjar commented 7 months ago

Thanks. Got it working.

ra3xdh commented 7 months ago

See also https://github.com/ra3xdh/qucs_s/issues/373 for solution.