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:
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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:
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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.