This is the README from the source distribution of GHDL. To get the binary distribution or more information, go to http://ghdl.free.fr Copyright: ********** GHDL is copyright (c) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Tristan Gingold. See the GHDL manual for more details. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. Building GHDL from sources for Windows: *************************************** Note: this was tested with Windows XP SP2 familly edition. Note: If you want to create the installer, GHDL should be built on a FAT partition. NSIS rounds files date to be FAT compliant (seconds are always even) and because GHDL stores dates, the files date must not be modified. Required: * the Ada95 GNAT compiler (GNAT GPL 2005 is known to work). * NSIS to create the installer. Unzip, edit winbuild to use correct path for makensis, run winbuild. The installer is in the windows directory. Send bugs and comments on http://gna.org/project/ghdl Tristan Gingold.