silice-make.py fails on initial test after install on MacOS

[resistor]

I installed silice per the instructions here: https://github.com/sylefeb/Silice/blob/master/GetStarted_macOS.md

When I to build the divstd_bare project using the instructions from here, I encounter multiple issues.

First, I get a permissions error on silice-make.py. I manually fixed them since it was obvious what needed to be changed.

However, now the build just failed with the following output:

divstd_bare % make icarus   
silice-make.py -s main.si -b icarus -p basic -o BUILD_icarus  
* Source file                :  /Users/resistor/Documents/Silice/projects/divstd_bare/main.si    [ok]
* Silice bin directory       :  /Users/resistor/install-silice/bin
* Build output directory     :  /Users/resistor/Documents/Silice/projects/divstd_bare/BUILD_icarus  (exists)
* Silice frameworks directory:          [not found]
make: *** [icarus] Error 255

[sylefeb]

Hi - sorry you're having difficulties with this. I cannot easily test on MacOS so things are less polished there. What seems to be happening is that the Silice executable is not able to locate files it needs to compile the design.

Silice now needs to be installed on the target system, running make install. Once this is done, the framework files should be in the equivalent of /usr/local/share/, subdirectory silice. Could you check that this is the case? It seems your install is in /Users/resistor/install-silice/, did you specify this using -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path> on cmake? See e.g.

https://github.com/sylefeb/Silice/blob/364b63b4eba9924fa07f360dc69e28ceeb9765f9/compile_silice_mingw64.sh#L28

This path gets passed to the source code by cmake to locate the files: https://github.com/sylefeb/Silice/blob/364b63b4eba9924fa07f360dc69e28ceeb9765f9/CMakeLists.txt#L164

[resistor]

Yes, I set a custom prefix using CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.

I see the following in flags.make:

CXX_DEFINES = -DANTLR4CPP_STATIC -DFRAMEWORKS_DEFAULT_PATH=\"/Users/resistor/install-silice/share/silice/frameworks\"

It looks like there's an incorrect trailing \?

[resistor]

Here is my exact CMake invocation:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/Users/resistor/install-silice -G "Unix Makefiles" ../..
make -j16
make install

The share directory does appear to be installed correctly:

% ls /Users/resistor/install-silice/share/silice/frameworks/
boards      libraries   templates   verilator