MSYS2 Verilator URL 404

[maxgerhardt]

In this block of instructions

SpinalDoc-RTD/source/SpinalHDL/Getting Started/Install and setup.rst

Lines 176 to 182 in e6ee08c

	pacman -Syuu
	# will (request) close down terminal
	# open 'MSYS2 MINGW64' from start menu
	pacman -Syuu
	pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-iverilog mingw-w64-x86_64-ghdl-llvm git
	curl -O https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-verilator-4.228-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
	pacman -U mingw-w64-x86_64-verilator-4.228-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

the download URL https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-verilator-4.228-1-any.pkg.tar.zst just 404es.

Under https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/mingw64/ the Verilator versions all start from 5.x, the latest being 5.050, e.g., https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-verilator-5.050-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

Is that compatible, too?

[maxgerhardt]

To get the originally intended 4.228 package I did

git clone https://github.com/Readon/MINGW-SpinalHDL.git
cd MINGW-SpinalHDL/mingw-w64-verilator
MINGW_ARCH=mingw64 makepkg-mingw -sCLf
pacman -U mingw-w64-x86_64-verilator-4.228-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

and that got me verilator installed in MSYS2 MINGW64 and I could run sbt --batch "runMain projectname.MyTopLevelSim" which actually did the simulation and produced the simWorkspace/MyTopLevel/test/wave.fst.

[mrcmry]

Hello.

Thanks for the bug report. Can you try with 4.046 5.046 ? Like this:

    curl -O https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-verilator-5.046-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
    pacman -U mingw-w64-x86_64-verilator-5.046-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

Verilator 5.047 devel rev v5.046-193-g31757df22 (mod) (from oss-cad-suite 20260328) works fine (see for example SpinalHDL/SpinalHDL#1919).

You are using MINGW64 and I don't, so I take the opportunity to ask you if this bump in version could cause compatibility issues with user of older MINGW installation (i.e. defining 5.026 in the RTD will allow more people to use it in your opinion).

[mrcmry]

@maxgerhardt do you still use 4.228 from above ? Or have you tried 5.046 ? Or perhaps something else ?