Installation

Linux

Verilator comes as binary package on many Linux distributions. So, this should work:

# apt-get install verilator

Or, on RPM based package managers:

# zypper install verilator

Msys under Windows

You can install with the gcc toolchain on Windows:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-verilator

If you want to build it from source, you can follow the method used in the PKGBUILD:

export MSYSTEM_PREFIX='/mingw64'
export MSYSTEM_CHOST='x86_64-w64-mingw32'

cp /usr/include/FlexLexer.h src/

export MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL="-DDEFENV" 

autoconf

./configure \
    --prefix=${MINGW_PREFIX} \
    --build=${MINGW_CHOST} \
    --host=${MINGW_CHOST}

make

When you have installed Verilator succesfully you should be able to see this output:

$ verilator
Usage:
        verilator --help
        verilator --version
        verilator --cc [options] [source_files.v]... [opt_c_files.cpp/c/cc/a/o/so]
        verilator --sc [options] [source_files.v]... [opt_c_files.cpp/c/cc/a/o/so]
        verilator --lint-only -Wall [source_files.v]...

Installing SystemC

For building systems with Verilator installing SystemC is a good idea. You can download the package from Accellera SysemC Github repo

  cd build/
  cmake -G Ninja ..
  ninja all
  sudo ninja all