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A Just-In-Time Compiler for Verilog from VMware Research
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[WIP] Initial docker skeleton #187

Closed no2chem closed 4 years ago

no2chem commented 5 years ago

Overview

Description: This PR implements a basic Docker build, which should help eliminate the complexity of the build environment and dependencies. This would allow us to remove the setup script, provide a consistent environment for debugging --- and point users to the builder dockerfile if they wish to run natively. This would also make it easier to support Cascade, as docker should be available on Linux, Windows and macos.

It's a WIP and shouldn't be merged. A few things remain:

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eschkufz commented 4 years ago

Closing this request for now.

This sounds valuable long term, but for the short run, I think we're going to focus on compatibility with the standard *NIX environment.

We've made a bunch of changes to setup to ensure that cascade installs correctly to usr/local/. The next steps probably look more like configuring apt-get and brew packages.