MinGW, issue with VERILATOR_ROOT, verilator binary path

[sylefeb]

Platform: MinGW64

Problem: The Verilator binary exists in two locations (oss-cad-suite/share/verilator/bin/ and oss-cad-suite/bin), but using the one in oss-cad-suite/bin leads to an error VERILATOR_ROOT is set to inconsistent path. Suggest leaving it unset..

Since when: This seems to have been trigger on March 12 by commit 07326f2.

Workaround: Removing the binary from oss-cad-suite/bin and using the one in oss-cad-suite/share/verilator/bin/ works. [edit: ensuring the correct executable if found first in the path works too]

[davidar]

I'm experiencing the same issue on linux-x64 (in my case the workaround has been unsetting the VERILATOR_ROOT variable set by oss-cad-suite/environment)

[gainbrain]

Same here on darwin-x64. Apparently happened with commit 07326f2.

[davekeeshan]

This is what they have said about it on the verilator github #5047:

VERILATOR_ROOT is intended to point to the directory that contains the bin and include subdirectories, like in a source tree. This was always the intention, even before the change, and is describe in the installation manual here: https://github.com/verilator/verilator/blob/master/docs/guide/install.rst#1-run-in-place-from-verilator_root

You are using installation method 2 from here: https://github.com/verilator/verilator/blob/master/docs/guide/install.rst#2-install-into-a-specific-prefix Albeit it's not explicitly said, this does not require setting VERILATOR_ROOT. The scripts know what it should be, and hence the error if you set it to something inconsistent. As the error suggests, you should leave VERILATOR_ROOT unset and just run the verilator executable, it should take care of everything else for you.

If you want to know what VERILATOR_ROOT is (though ideally you shouldn't have to care), run verilator --getenv VERILATOR_ROOT